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Penny Woolcock

June 2019

  • Director and Artist Penny Woolcock.

    Penny Woolcock: ‘The rise in knife crime? It’s simple: massive inequality’

    The film-maker on the state of Britain, working with non-professional actors and the similarities between grime and opera

November 2018

  • Teenage rebellion … Penny Woolcock, whose Fantastic Cities project takes place in Oxford.

    'I had guns pulled on me' – Penny Woolcock on filming with gangs

    Her experiences as a single mum, factory worker and revolutionary gave the artist and film-maker an affinity with the underdog. So she headed right into the heart of British gang culture

June 2017

  • The cast of Ackley Bridge, Channel 4’s new weekly series on life in a multicultural academy school in a fictional Yorkshire town.

    ‘It’s about race and class, but it’s funny, not grim’: Channel 4’s new take on school drama

    Director of C4’s Ackley Bridge hopes to show a rarely seen slice of multicultural education

March 2016

  • Streetwise Opera

    'I play Jesus three': landmark operatic production of the Easter story, performed by Manchester's homeless - video

    Critically acclaimed charity Streetwise Opera and ensemble The Sixteen perform Bach’s iconic oratorio St Matthew Passion as an immersive fully-staged opera in Campfield Market, Manchester
  • Streetwise Opera performers Matt Reid and Ian Campbell in rehearsal for The Passion. Credit Matt Priestley

    Blood, Met and tears: the homeless singers who discovered a Passion

    Streetwise Opera are to perform the Matthew Passion, one of the most demanding works in the choral repertoire. In her diary, director Penny Woolcock records how the musicians, many of them living on the street, conquered the dark side of Bach
  • A scene from Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon.

    Britons and Europe
    Being European: what does it mean?

    It’s the question that lies at the heart of the EU referendum. Seven Brits tell us what makes them feel part of a larger continent

January 2016

  • Matthew Polenzani as Nadir and Diana Damrau as Leila in Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles.

    Les Pêcheurs de Perles review – inconsistently ravishing

    With some superlative singing and an intelligent production, this Bizet opera should fly – but unfortunately the flaws in the work itself drag it back to earth

August 2015

  • Utopia at the Roundhouse, Camden

    Resilient cities
    Young Londoners on inequality: 'I saw 60 white people. It was absolutely frightening'

    Gentrification, class, housing, violence … in these excerpts from documentary interviews by film-maker and playwright Penny Woolcock, young men and women reveal what it’s like to be on the frontline of the inequality struggle on north London’s streets

July 2015

  • Penny Woolcock in a T-shirt, hand on head, the Roundhouse roof behind her

    This much I know
    Penny Woolcock: ‘March towards the sound of gunfire. If you run away you don’t learn anything’

    The 65-year-old filmmaker, artist and director on Russell Brand, being outside her comfort zone, and growing up in a conservative expat community

June 2014

  • The Pearl Fishers at English National Opera

    The Pearl Fishers review – ENO's large-scale, but hit-and-miss production

    A young cast struggle to bring Bizet's cardboard characters to life, writes Erica Jeal

March 2013

  • One Mile Away – review

    Penny Woolcock's documentary about two Birmingham gangs trying to forge a truce is revealing and often disturbing, writes Philip French

  • Shabba and D-Boy in One Mile Away

    One Mile Away – review

    A documentary that helped spark a reconciliation between rival gangs in Birmingham is a little short on context, but inspiring none the less, writes Henry Barnes

  • 'Zimbo' (Simeon Moore), centre, with Dylan Duffus, left, and 'Shabba' (Matthias Thompson), right.

    How two Birmingham gangs became allies

    A social enterprise founded by former gang members has helped to end a 20-year turf war in Birmingham

February 2013

  • One Mile Away

    Peace on the streets? How two gangs in Birmingham found common ground

    Following a brutal dispute in 2003 an uneasy truce reigns, brokered by a former cabinet minister and a film-maker. Elizabeth Day reports

July 2012

  • Dressed to kilt … Scottish stars attend the Edinburgh film festival awards ceremony.

    Edinburgh film festival closes with reinstated awards ceremony

    Penny Woolcock scoops best British feature for One Mile Away while international prize goes to Chinese film Here, Then

September 2011

  • Suger Rush

    Are teenage girls too hot to handle?

    There are lots of hilarious British films about teenage boys. But unlike the US, we don't do girl-centred comedy. Why, asks Jane Graham

August 2011

  • Penny Woolcock

    Radio review
    Radio review: The I Love You Bridge

    Penny Woolcock revealed the poignant truth behind 'an optimistic message of love' in Sheffield, writes Elisabeth Mahoney

June 2010

  • Penny Woolcock – runaway success

  • The Pearl Fishers by Bizet

    The Pearl Fishers

November 2009

  • Film talk
    Penny Woolcock on 1 Day at Sheffield Doc/Fest: 'This is real'

    1 Day is a community grime musical set on the streets of Birmingham. Director Penny Woolcock reveals how being mugged inspired her to make the film, how she assembled her cast and why it doesn't require police presence at screenings

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