PENNY LANE's films have shown at Rotterdam, AFI FEST, MOMA's Documentary Fortnight, Images Festival, Women in the Director's Chair, Rooftop Films, San Francisco International Film Festival, Oberhausen and Impakt. She's been awarded grants for her work from Cinereach, NYSCA, ETC, IFP, LEF Foundation, Puffin Foundation and Jerome Foundation and was a 2010 Yaddo artist in residence. Her award-winning 2005 documentary The Abortion Diaries has become an important organizing tool in the reproductive rights community, having shown in almost every U.S. state and worldwide. Her short films are distributed by V TAPE, and her personal website is here. She has taught at Hampshire, Bard and Williams Colleges. Yes, Penny Lane is her real name.

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BRIAN L. FRYE is a filmmaker, writer and law professor. His experimental films have appeared in The Whitney Biennial, New York Film Festival's "Views from the Avant-Garde", New York Underground Film Festival, The Warhol Museum, Pleasure Dome and Images Festival. His short films are in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum and distributed by the Filmmaker's Coop. His writing on film and art has appeared in October, The New Republic, Film Comment, Cineaste and the Village Voice. His legal scholarship concerns interactions between the law and the arts, nonprofit organizations and intellectual property. He is currently a visiting assistant professor at Hofstra Law School and is developing a beer-brewing hobby.

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The American Dipper (Cinclus Mexicanus) is North America's only aquatic songbird. Often found perched on a rock in a fast moving stream, they sing a clear sweet song and bob up and down in a funny little dance. They dive headlong into the icy cold water to forage for food. The strange, slate gray little bird who "flies underwater" was the favorite of naturalist John Muir. Penny saw her first American Dipper at Alaska's Dutch Harbor in 2009. Brian took advantage of her moment of extreme excitement to offer a proposal of marriage. And so a favorite bird was named, and a new life together begun.