Penny Allen

Property

Penny Allen

Walt Curtis, Lola Desmond

Facing eviction, the residents of a bohemian quarter of Portland, Oregon organize to collectively purchase a block of houses, only to get a crash course in bureaucracy.

Paydirt

Penny Allen

Eric Silverstein, Lola Desmond

Cash-strapped Oregon winemakers turn to growing pot in order to finance their vineyard.

En retard pour l'enterrement de ma mère

Penny Allen

Former Portland director Penny Allen’s (PROPERTY, PAYDIRT) new film is the intimate, turbulent portrait of a French-Algerian-Moroccan family residing in Algeria and adrift following the death of their mother, Zineb, a notorious smuggler of gold and jewels. Filmed over the course of three years, the film finds its own space between documentary and fiction as the family’s story brings to life the complexities of cross-border identities, the influence of political context on individual lives, and the importance of the mother figure in Arab/Islamic cultures