Actors

Penelope Buitenhuis

Penelope Buitenhuis

Penelope is an award winning writer and director with a distinguished career working in Europe, Japan, Canada and the US. Most recently she co-wrote and directed A Wake which won best feature at numerous festivals, receiving first prize for the screenplay at the Rhode Island Film Festival and nominated for the DGC best director award. Her documentary Tokyo Girls about western women who work as hostesses in Japan, received two Leo Awards and two Geminis for best cinematography and editing and screened at festivals worldwide. Graduating in film from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, she became known as a guerrilla filmmaker in the underground scene in Berlin, New York, San Francisco, London, Amsterdam and Toronto. Her short film Llaw offered a radical perspective on the fall of the Berlin wall premiering at the Berlin Film festival to critical acclaim. A retrospective of her work entitled Guns, Girls and Guerrillas was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her film poem A Dream of Naming premiered at TIFF followed by the feature Trouble, about the post Berlin Wall music and political scene which received Best Film honors at numerous festivals around the world. She then directed Boulevard, a thriller starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Lance Henriksen and Rae Dawn Chong and went on to work in television. Penelope's next big feature project is Guilty, a female led psychological thriller and UK/Canadian co-production which is out to cast for an early 2018 shoot.
Penelope Granycome

Penelope Granycome

Penelope grew up by the sea in Gibraltar and Dorset, the daughter of a Naval Officer and a Teacher. She has featured in several award-winning films which have screened at major festivals including at the the BFI London Film Festival, Visions du Réel, Raindance Film Festival, Cannes, and in the US. Her other work includes many broadcast short films and commercials, as well as photographic shoots including working several times with worldwide acclaimed fine art photographer, Julia Fullerton-Batten. A photograph of Penelope taken by Julia in the first UK lock-down featured in the global press, was the subject of a programme on SKY Arts and the cover of a Hangar Art PhotoBrussels coffee table book. Penelope's recent commercial work includes LNER, Samsung, Checkatrade, and Capital One as well as formerly for BT Sport, Domino's, Vauxhall, Volkswagen, Daimler Chrysler, and charities Quit Anti-Smoking and Body & Soul. She holds a BA Honours Degree in English Literature and Drama from renowned Arts College Bretton Hall and trained and performed for many seasons with the world recognised National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, acting, singing and dancing in the West End. She is passionate about animal and marine conservation, an accomplished advanced scuba diver and enjoys sailing, horse riding and being on or below water. Penny also writes professionally about travel, diving and well-being for several leading UK magazines. Penelope holds an HSE medical certificate for diving in the media and a Royal Yachting Association competent crew certification.