Penny Lane

Biography
Penny Lane, visiting assistant professor of film/video, holds an MFA in Integrated Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a BA in American Culture from Vassar College. She is a video artist whose experimental narrative and documentary videos have screened at AFI FEST, Int'l Film Festival Rotterdam, San Francisco Int'l Film Festival, Seattle Int'l Film Festival, Women in the Director's Chair and MOMA. Her work has received support from the New York State Council for the Arts, the Independent Feature Project and the Puffin Foundation. Her award-winning documentaries The Abortion Diaries and Independent Media in a Time of War (the latter made with Hudson-Mohawk Indymedia and Democracy Now!) are regularly screened in classrooms, community centers and microcinemas across the U.S. and on Free Speech TV. Her collective and community-oriented work includes 3 years as core producer at Hudson-Mohawk Indymedia and 8 years of youth media activism and education. Currently she is working on an animation about fathers and daughters and two long-form experimental documentaries about a Depression-era madam and Corvus brachyrhynchos (the American crow).