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Penny Lane is an independent filmmaker and video artist living in Troy, NY. Her experimental and documentary videos have screened at AFI FEST, Int'l Film Festival Rotterdam, San Francisco Int'l Film Festival, Images 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 and Yes! Television. The Abortion Diaries has screened in 42 states at over 200 different community venues, ranging from bars to art centers to clinics to colleges. From 2003-on, she has been a core producer of the Hudson-Mohawk Independent Media Center and a programmer/volunteer/organizer of The Sanctuary for Independent Media, two Troy-based groups dedicated to challenging the assumptions of the mainstream media by producing and presenting independent media for diverse audiences. 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 Williams College.
And yes, that is her real name.
contact: lennypane - at - gmail.com
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