An Interview with Writer/Director/Producer Penelope Lawson
We chat with Penelope Lawson about her short film, The Dinner Party, her experience founding her own production company, and fun cinema.

Limbo represents a territory that is beyond normativity. If in the ordinary world, bodies are trapped by the rules of rationality and slave labor, in limbo bodies find a space conducive to playing with CHAOS. Limbo as an Amoral space (or a territory for the construction of a new morality based on pleasure and the power of joy). Limbo as THE TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE (TAZ).
We chat with Penelope Lawson about her short film, The Dinner Party, her experience founding her own production company, and fun cinema.
Where we leave the characters is in such a peaceful and optimistic place. It feels well-earned to ensure everyone gets their own specially-crafted happy ending.
“Unsung” does not begin to describe the obscurity Bayard Rustin endured in the shadows of the Civil Rights Movement
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.
This captivating film can only be truly appreciated by seeing it firsthand. There are not enough words to describe the terrible beauty one experiences while watching it.