Penny Woolcock
Born in Buenos Aires and raised in a conservative British community in Montevideo, at 17 Penny Woolcock joined a radical theatre group and was promptly arrested. Her alarmed parents sent her to Europe, but she quickly ran off to Spain and had a baby. She fell into film-making accidentally in her late 30s, when she decided to film a play she was staging as a youth worker in Oxford. Since then she has directed The Death of Klinghoffer and Principles of Lust. Michief Night completes the Tina Trilogy which includes Tina Goes Shopping and Tina Takes a Break. Recently she was commissioned by Artangel to make a modern version of the story of Exodus which was completed in 2007.
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The New York Arab & South Asian Film Festival would like to
thank all of the film makers and other creative talents
involved in making this happen for a third year. Most of all,
we would like to thank the participating
audiences, for bearing witness.
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