In 2003 Penny directed her first feature film, The Principles of Lust, which was produced by Film 4 and nominated for the BIFA Douglas Hickox Award. In 2009 she released 1 Day, a gritty hip hop musical following a day in the life of an inner city hustler. The film was shot on location in Birmingham and was entirely acted by a cast of locals.
BBC Birmingham review:
It's already been compared to the American classic Boyz in the Hood and labelled as Britain's first hip hop musical; 1 Day follows the violent life of two inner city gangs and claims to closely depict everyday life faced by some young people in UK inner cities.
Shot on location in and around Handsworth, the film's entire cast of actors are all from the local streets.
The controversial film, part funded by Screen West Midlands is due to be released in UK cinemas on 6 November 2009 and is already causing quite a stir. Concerns have been raised by Birmingham's community that the film glamorises a gangster lifestyle of guns, crime and money, while also portraying black youths in a negative way.
Written and directed by Penny Woolcock, 1 Day follows 24 hours in the life of Flash, an inner-city hustler who's day steadily gets worse when he finds out local gang leader Angel is being released from prison and wants his £500k he left with him for safekeeping. Short of the full amount Flash needs to find the money fast.
Angel threatens Flash
Flash's day gets more and more intense as he's pursued by rival gang members, the police, his three irrate baby mothers and his grandmother.
Film maker Penny Woolcock says the film is a fiction not a documentary but it is telling a truth.
"Something terrible is happening to the young men in our inner cities. Boys are excluded from school; they then get bored and are easily drawn into street crime and drug dealing. Nobody cares that marginalised young black, Asian or white men are killing each other," says Woolcock.
CREDITS:
1 Day
Director, Writer (screenplay), Producer
Exodus
Director, Writer (writer)
Mischief Night
Director, Writer (written by)
The Principles of Lust
Director, Writer (wrtier)
The Death of Klinghoffer
Director
Doctor Atomic
Directed For Stage
opera production: Metropolitan Opera
Tina Takes a Break
Director, Writer
Cutting Edge: The Five of Us
Director, Producer
Tina Goes Shopping
Director, Writer (writer)
Macbeth on the Estate
Director, Writer (screenplay)
A Skirt Through History; The Two Marys
Director
Women in Tropical Places
Director, Writer (writer
AWARDS:
BAFTA Awards 2000
Nominated, BAFTA TV Award
Innovation for Tina Goes Shopping (1999)
British Independent Film Awards 2003
Nominated, Douglas Hickox Award
for The Principles of Lust (2003)
Brussels European Film Festival 2003
Won, Special Prize of the Jury
for The Death of Klinghoffer (2003)
Nominated, Golden Iris
for The Death of Klinghoffer (2003)
Buenos Aires International Festival
of Independent Cinema 2003
Nominated, Best Film
for The Death of Klinghoffer (2003)
Grammy Awards 2005
Nominated, Grammy
Best Long Form Music Video
for The Death of Klinghoffer (2003)
Rotterdam International
Film Festival 2003
Nominated, Tiger Award
for The Principles of Lust (2003)
Her television single, Tina Goes Shopping, was nominated for a BAFTA Television Award for Innovation, and the follow-up, Tina Takes a Break, won Best Single Drama at the Broadcast Awards. She has collected a host of awards and nominations for her other television projects and for her fearless and original documentaries.
In 2003 Penny directed her first feature film, The Principles of Lust, which was produced by Film 4 and nominated for the BIFA Douglas Hickox Award. In 2009 she released 1 Day, a gritty hip hop musical following a day in the life of an inner city hustler. The film was shot on location in Birmingham and was entirely acted by a cast of locals.
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