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Penelope Buitenhuis (born 1963) is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter. She is most noted as a two-time Directors Guild of Canada award nominee, receiving nods for the DGC Allan King Award for Best Documentary Film in 2002 for Tokyo Girls, and the DGC Award for Best Direction in a Feature Film in 2010 for A Wake.
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Penelope Buitenhuis. Director: A Wake. Penelope is an award winning writer and director with a distinguished career working in Europe, Japan, Canada and the US.
A psychological thriller featuring a strong female lead searching for the truth. After being accused of manslaughter, therapy for memory loss triggers dramatic deep seated flashbacks from the past, which form a visual spine, gradually revealing the shocking truth of a woman’s deeply buried childhood trauma.
Directing extensively for Lifetime telling true and fictional stories about women in peril, I am known for getting strong performances while shooting under tight schedules, and work closely with writers to make production-friendly scripts with sharply focused plots.
Penelope Buitenhuis. Director: A Wake. Penelope is an award winning writer and director with a distinguished career working in Europe, Japan, Canada and the US.
Penelope Buitenhuis. Ontario. Penelope Buitenhuis started as an experimental filmmaker in Paris and Berlin, and after the success of her short about the Berlin Wall, she made her first feature, which led her back to Canada.
