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Language
  
English

Director
  
Joe Hitchcock

Country
  
New Zealand

Writer
  
Fiona Jackson
,
Joe Hitchcock

Penny Black is a New Zealand independent comedy film produced by Fiona Jackson, and directed by Joe Hitchcock.

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Plot

Beautiful Penny Black rose to fame as the face of Ubernu, the mega-corporation taking over the world. Penny likes the high life, expensive clothes, and fancy restaurants, but she just became guardian for her sister, Alex. She’s 18 going on 8, always dresses like her favorite superhero, Lapwing, and she’s driving Penny crazy! When she inadvertently sabotages a photoshoot, drives Penny into a public rage, and puts Penny’s modelling career in jeopardy, she panics and heads for Wellington to try to win her job back.

Penny Black (film) movie scenes Penny Serenade Movie Scene 2

Without anywhere to leave Alex she reluctantly packs her in the car, too, and they hit the road, cruising south til Penny accidentally plants the car into a paddock. Luckily, Guy, a charismatic activist picks them up and offers to take them both to Wellington.

Guy is smart, charming and has a different way of looking at the world, and Penny soon warms to his apple tree planting, dumpster diving, billboard altering ways.

But in the middle of their mayhem, adventure, and bending the law, things start to go wrong…

Cast

  • Astra McLaren as Penny Black
  • Anton Tennet as Guy
  • Toni Garson as Alex Black
  • Sash Nixon as Lapwing

    • Production

    Penny Black features a core cast of three, and went into pre-production in October 2011.

    Penny Black is filmed on RED Scarlet from July-Oct 2012 in Auckland, Pukekohe, Hamilton, Te Aroha, Taupo, Napier, and Wellington, New Zealand

    The role of Pennys sister, Alex Black, was originally a male role, but when finding an actor with availability throughout the filming period became difficult the production team started to consider changing the role to a sister. When they found Toni they decided she was perfect for the role and rewrote the script to suit her.

    During production Astra McLaren became vegan which she attributes partly to the theme of Penny Black opening her eyes and giving her time to think about issues she already knew were there.

    A short film entitled Lapwing was made to be used within the narrative of Penny Black, and to provide back story for the superhero character. It was largely shot on the grounds of the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    References

    Penny Black (film) Wikipedia
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