Penelope Buitenhuis (born 1963) is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter.
[2] Originally from Toronto, Ontario, she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, in the late 1970s to study at Simon Fraser University.
[1] She subsequently moved to Berlin, Germany, for a number of years, making a number of short films with a radical artists' collective before releasing her debut feature film, Trouble, in 1993.
[1] She subsequently returned to Canada, where she directed the films Boulevard (1994)[3] and Giant Mine (1996).
[4] Her other credits have included episodes of the television series Lonesome Dove, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Wind at My Back, Cold Squad, Power Play, Train 48, Bliss, Paradise Falls, Metropia and Pretty Hard Cases.