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.

In the last days of the war, a downed plane makes an emergency landing behind enemy lines. Nekrasov leaves the culprit of the disruption of the operation to the mercy of fate, for which he loses the rank of lieutenant and is suspended from flights. Returning to the village, he becomes the first tractor driver of the collective farm. But one day, having given up everything, he gets a job as a technician at the airfield...
We chat with Penelope Lawson about her short film, The Dinner Party, her experience founding her own production company, and fun cinema.
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A Black woman centered in a box office rom-com with a happy ending and no struggle love.
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