Award-winning US filmmaker Penny Lane joins renowned archive expert Elizabeth Klinck for a lively discussion! Penny Lane's innovative use of archive will be used as a jumping off point for a conversation about her wonderful and eclectic career.

A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, Penny Lane has been making nonfiction films for over a decade. Penny has made four feature-length documentaries, most recently HAIL SATAN? (Sundance 2019), in wide release with Magnolia Pictures. Previously she directed THE PAIN OF OTHERS (Rotterdam 2018), NUTS! (Sundance 2016) and OUR NIXON (Rotterdam 2013). Penny’s short films are distributed by VTAPE and include titles such as THE VOYAGERS (2010), THE COMMONERS (2009) and WE ARE THE LITTLETONS: A TRUE STORY. Her 2005 short THE ABORTION DIARIES has screened in at least 42 states & worldwide at over 350 different community venues, ranging from bars to art centers to clinics to colleges, and on Yes! Television and Free Speech TV. 

She was a college professor for over a decade, teaching film, video and new media art at Colgate University, Bard College, Hampshire College and Williams College. And yes, Penny Lane is her real name.