Penelope Spheeris

Penelope Spheeris ( born December 2, 1945 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American film director, film producer and screenwriter. It was known in the U.S. as a documentary director with the trilogy The Decline of Western Civilization.

In addition to its documentary she directed and in movies. Their most successful film Wayne 's World.

Life

Spheeris was born as the first of four children in New Orleans Louisiana. Her parents are Greek immigrants. Her father was the owner of the circus Magic Empire shows and her mother was a ticket seller. Spheeris is the sister of singer-songwriter Jimmie Spheeris and her cousin Costa -Gavras is also a director. Penelope went the first seven years with his parents' circus by America until her father was killed. From then on, the mother entertained the family with odd jobs.

She has done her Master of Fine Arts for theater in UCLA in Los Angeles, California.

Career

Penelope Spheeris Initially produced smaller projects for Albert Brooks for the first season of the American television series Saturday Night Live. Her first film, which she produced in 1981 and at the same time directed, was the documentary about the punk rock The Decline of Western Civilization. The sequel of The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, is about the metal scene in Los Angeles and includes interviews of the bands Kiss, Ozzy Osbourne, Aerosmith, Megadeth and Motörhead. The third part of the trilogy, is back on the punk rock scene in the streets of Los Angeles.

For their Western road movie Dudes - Hold on me, the desert shakes, were among others Jon Cryer and Daniel Roebuck in front of the camera, she received mostly poor reviews. Subsequently she wrote several episodes for the television series Roseanne ( 1988-1997 ). Her breakthrough came with the comedy film Wayne 's World ( with Mike Myers in the title role, who also wrote the screenplay ), and her most successful film is. In 1996, she again took a documentary on, We Sold Our Soul for Rock ' n ' Roll on the Ozzfest, where Sharon Osbourne acted as producer.

Then Penelope devoted again to the cinema, and produced and directed at The Beverly Hillbillies, The Little Rascals ( with script works), Black Sheep ( with Chris Farley ), Senseless ( Marlon Wayans ) and The Kid & I (with Tom Arnold). In early 2010, she directed Who is Brad Lenz? and has two more projects for the 2010 film, High School Sweethearts by Emma Roberts and the comedy Balls to the Wall.

The films by Penelope Spheeris were shown on feminist film festivals such as the Portland Oregon Women's Film Festival, to which it was in 2013 and 2014 as charged Ehrengästin.

Filmography (selection)

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