Penny Lane is an independent filmmaker and video artist living in Northampton MA and Troy NY. Her collaborative and solo experimental, narrative and documentary videos have screened at AFI FEST, Int'l Film Festival Rotterdam, San Francisco Int'l Film Festival, Seattle Int'l Film Festival, Women in the Director's Chair, Santa Fe Art Institute, MOMA, and DUMBO Art Under the Bridge. Her award-winning documentaries The Abortion Diaries and Independent Media in a Time of War (the latter made with Hudson-Mohawk Indymedia) are regularly screened in classrooms, community centers and microcinemas across the U.S. and internationally on Free Speech TV. The Abortion Diaries has screened in 42 states at 200 different community venues, ranging from bars to art centers to clinics to colleges. From 2003-5 she was a core producer of the Hudson-Mohawk Independent Media Center, a group dedicated to challenging the assumptions of the mainstream media. She has also worked extensively with youth in community centers such as Children's Media Project and The Ark, Inc. She earned her MFA in Integrated Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her BA in American Culture at Vassar College. Currently she is a visiting assistant professor of video and new media at Hampshire College and is working on an experimental documentary about a Depression-era madam.

And yes, that is her real name.

Penny Lane's website: www.p-lane.com

RECENT FILMOGRAPHY:

We Are The Littletons: A True Story (experimental narrative, 10:00, 2004)
Official Selection, Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle WA
Official Selection, San Francisco Int'l Film Festival, San Francisco CA
Second Prize, "Best Narrative Short," Athens Int'l Film Festival, Athens OH
Women in the Director's Chair, Chicago IL
hi/lo Film Festival, Oakland CA
First Prize, Bryant University Student Film/Video Festival, Providence RI
Best True Story, Luksuz Cheap Film Festival , Slovenia
Official Selection, International Show of Video Art at Alcoi , Valencia , Spain
Ms. Film Festival, Durham NC and traveling shows all over the US
New Filmmakers Series, Anthology Film Archives, NYC
Reel Venus Film Festival, Symphony Space, NYC

Independent Media in a Time of War (documentary, 28:30, 2003)
*produced in collaboration with Hudson Mohawk Independent Media Center.
Rotterdam International Film Festival , Netherlands
Media That Matters Film Festival, NYC
Select Media Festival, Chicago IL and Paris , France
Freedom Cinema Festival, Park City UT
Gene Siskel Film Center , Chicago IL
Art In General Video Marathon, NYC
Arab and Iranian Film Festival, Seattle WA
Resistance Cinema, NYC
Other Cinema, San Franciso CA