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.

Pilkades (village head election) will still be held in a village when the virus pandemic hits. Sunarta is a village head who will nominate again using other means of campaigning other than using MMT. At the same time, mass back pain also occurred in the village, making Bahar a mosque takmir who felt restless because his mosque was always quiet. The unused mosque car also took part in the Sunarta campaign at the Village Health Center.
We chat with Penelope Lawson about her short film, The Dinner Party, her experience founding her own production company, and fun cinema.
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.
The relationship between Will and Sean is the best part of the movie. It’s always a delight to see Robin Williams on screen
People are so much deeper and far more extraordinary than what gender they were assigned at birth.
The documentary depicts the indigenous people of Mexico with sublime reverence, highlighting a generational harmony with the land.