Office: LC-329
480.423.6323
Penelope.Price@sccmail.maricopa.edu
Executive Producer, Writer, Director:
Dr. Price holds a B.S. in Comparative Politics and an M.A. and
Ph.D. in Literature from Arizona State University. . Her dissertation
analyzed the influence of film on 20th Century American Literature.
She began making her own experimental films in 1979 which have
screened and won awards nationally and internationally. Recent
awards include a 2001 Telly Award for the Promotion tape Artists
of Resistance, and the 2001-2002 Arizona Commission for the Arts
Media/Visual Arts Fellowship.
Price’s most recent film,
Pasa Un Angel, screened at the Chicago Latino Film Festival, the
Margaret Mead Festival, and won the Golden Spire Award in the
San Francisco International Film and Video Festival. Pasa Un Angel
is about Claudia Bernardi, an Argentine Artist, who became intricately
involved in the search for truth about a mass grave in El Salvador.
Price is currently working on a
television series titled Artists of Resistance, the stories of
six Latin American Artists whose work has emerged from a landscape
of revolution, massacres, indigenous movements and the demand
for human rights.
Steve
Barnes