Penny Woolcock
Screenwriter and Director
Gangster drama meets urban musical in film 1 Day...the story of a young drug dealer who is desperately trying to raise money owed to his newly out of jail boss. Directed by Penny Woolcock and starring a new cast of up and coming actors this grime musical is attracting a lot of interest. In this article: Gangster, Penny Woolcock, and Birmingham |
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Independent.co.uk - Theater | November 05, 2009
The Diary: Paul Auster; Jerry Moffat; Punch magazine; Penny Woolcock
...Black Festival in Birmingham. A source said police halted proceedings and took a head count. When Woolcock asked why this had happened, she was told it was "because we heard there were problems with the projector". Post a Comment Offensive...
In this article: Paul Auster, Punch, Birmingham, New York, and John Tenniel
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scotsman.com - Entertainment | November 05, 2009
Film review: 1 Day
...must be registered with the site. INSPIRED by a violent assault in which she was beaten and robbed by a young black mugger, director Penny Woolcock (Mischief Night) makes a compassionate attempt to understand the culture and context that...
In this article: Birmingham
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...disturbed by similarities in her patients' accounts, challenging her beliefs about whether we are alone in the universe. Penny Woolcock directs the first hip-hop musical shot in the UK, filmed on the inner-city streets of Birmingham...
In this article: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Birmingham, Steven Spielberg, Milla Jovovich, Alaska, and UK
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | November 05, 2009
1 Day
...hip hop melodrama about a Birmingham crack dealer with money and women problems. Rating: * * Gangbangers: The Musical? Penny Woolcock (Tina Goes Shopping, Mischief Night) mounts another brave but unmistakable failure with this...
In this article: Birmingham and DVD
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FT.com - Arts & Weekend | November 04, 2009
Film releases: November 6
...Rent a good episode instead, or indeed the Robert Altman movie. Hip-hop, but no hooray, is the verdict on 1 Day (). Filmmaker Penny Woolcock has a stalwart record in musical dramas plucked from modernity - Mischief Night, The Death of...
In this article: Henri-Georges Clouzot, John Keats, Bright Star, Charlyne Yi, Jim Carrey, Ben Whishaw, Jane Campion, Abbie Cornish, and Paper Heart
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Dylan Duffus interview for 1 Day
...about Woolcock's project in 2006 from his mother's cousin, the photographer Vanley Burke. When Duffus and Woolcock met she told him she wanted to make a film about 'what's going on in the community - the realness of it and how people think,'...
In this article: Birmingham, National Film and Television School, Copper, Crack cocaine, London Film Festival, Britain, and Master P
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Women on the verge: Why 2009 is the year of the female film director
...Cornish as his love, Fanny Brawne. Also released on Friday is 1 Day, a Birmingham-set "grime musical" by the British film-maker Penny Woolcock. And representing Hollywood is Karyn Kusama, back after her comic-book flop Aeon Flux with...
In this article: Jane Campion, Oscar, The Piano, Bright Star, Jennifer's Body, An Education, Lone Scherfig, Karyn Kusama, and Carey Mulligan
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Goblins, a dentist and the worst movie ever
...has an estimated one million addicts. Taiman allows quiet observations to speak for themselves. 8. 1 Day Veteran film-maker Penny Woolcock was inspired to make '1 Day' after being mugged. She set out to talk to gang members about their...
In this article: Troll 2, George Hardy, Michael Stephenson, Claudio Fragasso, Alexander City, Alabama, and Latex
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BBC News | October 28, 2009
Cinemas pull inner-city gang film
...had not asked for the film to be pulled but it was investigating whether an officer had approached cinemas independently. Director Penny Woolcock said: "I hope people at least start talking about some of these issues instead of ignoring it...
In this article: Birmingham
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Wikipedia | March 13, 2009
Penny Woolcock
Penny Woolcock (born January 1, 1950, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a British filmmaker, opera director, and screenwriter. She was raised in a British community in Montevideo, speaking English and going to English schools. Her father, an...
In this article: John Adams, The Death of Klinghoffer, Doctor Atomic, Metropolitan Opera, Barcelona, Europe, Montevideo, and Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Penny Woolcock (born January 1, 1950, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a British filmmaker, opera director, and screenwriter. She was raised in a British community in Montevideo, speaking English and going to English schools. Her father, an accountant, had wanted to be a writer.
In 1967, she founded a radical theatre group and was briefly arrested; her parents wanted to send her to Europe for safety. Instead, she fled to Spain with a man from the theater group and had a baby in Barcelona.
In 1970 she moved to England as a single mother. She worked in factories and other jobs. In her thirties she enrolled in a filmmakers' workshop, borrowed film-making equipment, and sold the resulting feature to BBC Channel 4. She then was hired as a director and editor of a current-affairs program originating in Newcastle. From there, she went on to feature-making.
Her first feature as a writer and director was "Women in Tropical Places" in 1989. Since then she has directed/ written seven films. Current projects include "1 Day," a film scheduled for 2009 release, and a production of the John Adams opera Doctor Atomic, which she is directing for the Metropolitan Opera's 2008-2009 season. She previously filmed Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer as a feature film.
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