producer

penny styles

Penny moved to Nashville in late 2014 and has worked locally as a producer, guest lecturer at Lipscomb University and is in development for the motion picture, Iron Men of ’99 to be shot in Tennessee, and another, Matryoshka to be shot in Tennessee, Florida and Russia. She is also in development on an epic TV series to be shot in Sydney, Australia and another in Nashville, Tennessee.

Penny is an award-winning Producer & Line Producer, who has worked on over 25 Feature Film and TV projects including independent productions such as ‘Reunion’, ‘April Moon’, ‘Watercolors’, ‘Neowolf’ along with TV shows in Tennessee, Florida and California with Disney, CMT & Discovery.

Adept and comfortable in all production genres, she develops budgets ranging from Micro upward to $56 mil. Penny has also received multiple Film Festival, Addy, and industry awards. She is most proud of her community involvement, garnering a ‘Movie Production Award’ from the California State Senate, California Legislature Assembly, and a ‘Service to the Community Through Film Production’ Special Congressional Award from the United States Congress. The African American Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce recognized her with a ‘Contribution to the Community’ award for hiring a majority of African-American actors for the movie, ‘Reunion’.

She serves as a founding board of META - Media, Entertainment & Technology Alliance, a Tennessee non-profit business alliance serving businesses that operate in the creative economy.