Penny Barrett

Movies

UnBowed
Production Design
An unlikely romance develops between a Lakota warrior and a young black woman at an 1890s black college.
The Glass Shield
Production Design
J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new trooper, the first female officer to work there, who also suffers similar discrimination in the otherwise all-white male work environment. When J.J. becomes increasingly aware of police corruption during the murder trial of Teddy Woods, whom he helped to arrest, he faces difficult decisions and puts himself into grave personal danger in the service of justice.
Menace II Society
Production Design
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
To Sleep with Anger
Production Design
An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.
My Brother's Wedding
Set Decoration
A man who despises his upwardly mobile lawyer brother reluctantly agrees to be best man at his wedding.