French-American director PENNY ALLEN’s first feature Property, made in Portland, Oregon, was a prize-winner at the first Sundance festival in 1978. Mala Noche author Walt Curtis played a community organizer in the film, and the young Gus Van Sant recorded sound and discovered Walt’s book, which he later adapted for his own first feature. In 1981, Penny Allen finished her second feature Paydirt, the story of wine growers who grow marijuana to finance their vineyard. In 2008, she finished The