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Doug Pennal
Interests
Some.
Books
Well now: Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mervyn Peake, Charles Baudelaire, Albert Camus, Knut Hamsun, Gogol, Samuel Beckett, Turgenev, Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy, Maupassant, Arthur Rimbaud, Cicero, Aristotle, Herman Hesse, Miguel de Cervantes, Tennyson, William Blake, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Lord Byron, Wordsworth, Shakespeare..............Dan Brown.
Movies
Short Hand: Blade Runner, Withnail & I, How To Get Ahead In Advertising, Brazil, Baron Von Munchausen, Time Bandits, Alien, Delicatessan, Eraserhead, The Three Colours Trilogy, The Devil's Backbone, The Maltese Falcon, Apocalypse Now, Platoon, The Killing Fields, Battleship Potemkin, Nosferatu...Anything with Buster Keaton, Charlie Chapman, Hitchock, Powell & Pressburger, Paul Newman, Cary Grant or Gregory Peck. etc. etc. etc.
Television
No.
About Me
Three Speculative Screenplays [Finished]: for own enjoyment and understanding of craft.
One Speculative Screenplay [Unfinished]: for the enjoyment of others and hopefully a sale.
Various Poems, Short Stories, Novellas etc. from a young age.
Aspirations like any other but a very real understanding that dedication and earnestness are the best tools I have. Hopeful for money but would rather see people enjoying my work than any kind of material gain.
Goal
Final plans: hermitage in the woods, quiet writing of old age, mellow hopes of Paradise etc. etc.
Professional Experience
Antrhopology Student
The School of Oriental & African Studies
October 2005 - Present
Everything: Let's elucidate: newspaper boy, shop clerk, down and out, kitchen slopper, factory drone, student, fork-lift driver, part-time gardener and farm hand etc.
Contacts
None.
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