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Biography
Penelope Price is an award winning filmmaker whose work
focuses on human rights and the arts. Her first documentary,  Pasa Un Angel, captured the top award at the 2000 San Francisco
International Film Festival. Since then, her film has been
collected by art museums, politicians, human rights activists,
artists and educators in Serbia & Montenegro, Poland, Colombia,
Chile, Argentina, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, San Francisco,
Phoenix, New York, and Washington DC.
Price's cinematography contributed to the student Academy award
winning documentary Walk This Way. Price has also received
the Golden Spire Award in the Golden Gate San Francisco International
Film Festival for the documentary Pasa Un Angel; which also screened
at the United Nations Conference Against Torture in Washington D.C.
She received a Telly Award in the Political Category for Artists of
Resistance; the Audience Choice Award in the Fire Fest Portland
Oregan festival for Dinner; the "Arizona Artist" award for Home
Movies, sponsored by and shown on Bravo. Price also received
Innovation of the Year by the National College League of Innovation
for Maya Deren: Goddes of Illusion.
Dr. Price has a PH.D. from Arizona State University and teaches
at Scottsdale Community College where she has developed a
Motion Picture/Television Program with her personal mandate
as the guiding vision: to offer an affordable film school for
diverse voices. She has created and is currently teaching a
documentary production class titled "Lights, Camera, Activism:
Documentaries for Social Change."
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