Veronica Gonzalez Peña

My approach to filmmaking is highly collaborative, yet driven by a singular and strong artistic vision. Before becoming a novelist, I studied art history and this visual arts background deeply informs all of my work. In addition to writing novels, I spent over a decade bringing artists and writers together to produce collaborative books and prints, before moving into film. In film I have been able to merge all of my interests: collaboration, storytelling, and visual arts, including art history, while continuing to work with the artists and writers I most admires. To date the actors in my films have included Michel Auder, Chris Kraus, Pat Steir, Douglas Gordon and Sylvere Lotringer. I have also worked with Charlotte Rampling, who starred in my original play, Neck of the Woods, which is a re-telling of the Little Red Riding Hood story, through the lens of Freud's Wolfman, from the POV of the grown up girl. It premiered at the Manchester International Festival July, 2015.

My fourth film Pat Steir: Artist premiered at Lincoln Center as part of the Jewish Film Festival. It has screened at The Hirshhorn Museum, The Barnes Foundation, Art Basel, Art 21 and Princeton University, and is currently available on Video on Demand, including iTunes and amazon. I am currently working on a film about the artist Lawrence Weiner. narrated from the POV of Alice Zimmerman Weiner; the film functions as a poetic visual story which subtly but powerfully highlights the oft-hidden woman's voice.