Libidomania 

A South Korean romantic drama film that brings a strong first love story.

This short film was an overall creative success.

The quiet ache of guilt sitting at the dinner table, the silence after a truth is buried, and the way pain is passed down like a name.

An action-packed adrenaline rush with a diverse cast that delivers evocative storytelling.

Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.

We chat with Penelope Lawson about her short film, The Dinner Party, her experience founding her own production company, and fun cinema.