Director BIO: Lindsay Penn

 Played at the FEMALE FEEDBACK Film Festival on Thursday August 24, 2017

Director Biography

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Lindsay Penn is a short-form video content editor, director, and producer in Los Angeles, CA. She produced her own content on YouTube under the name “Linzer Dinzer” before working as senior editor and associate producer for “WTFark” and “So That Happened” on Ora TV. She has gone on to direct music videos and explore video styles tailored for social media.

Penn has a variety of hometowns – she was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but has also lived in Las Vegas, Nevada, Thousand Oaks, California, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Dallas, Texas. She graduated from the University of North Texas in 2012 (cum laude), and received her Master’s in Entertainment Business from Full Sail in 2013 (salutatorian).

Director Statement

Alyssa wanted to express to the world how hard it is to reach your goals as an independent artist when there is such a strong tug-of-war between fans and the industry. Many music fans claim they want you to express yourself genuinely as an artist, yet they try to sway you in the direction of their choosing, and they don’t understand why you deserve to be paid. The industry offers you cash, but then, naturally, cares more about your market appeal than your vision. Alyssa tackles her experience with this conflict intimately and intelligently, and I feel that if I related to it so intensely, others will as well.

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By femalefilmfestival

The irony of this festival is that its goal is to not be around in 5 years time. To eventually not be relevant because there is zero need to have a festival geared for female talent and female stories because the stories presented in Hollywood and around the world are a balanced showcase of the human experience from both sexes. Our goal is to achieve a lot of success and then fold into oblivion simply because there is no need for this festival. This festival was created by the FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival as a simple reaction to a strong need to showcase female talent from around the world in a more profound way. When putting together the weekly festival, the administration noticed a lack of a female presence in the stories being shown at the festival. A classic example and analogy to the frustration is how the festival noticed that even the smaller roles in a screenplay were written for a man to play. There was zero reason for this in many stories. How a police officer, or a political campaign manager, for example with 3-4 lines in a screenplay was a "HE" character. Why? And these are the screenplays written by the winners! The talented one who have obtained agents and have began/beginning their careers as a writer.

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