Faith Pennick

Faith Pennick has directed numerous films including the narrative short film Haunt, and Weightless, a documentary short about plus-sized female scuba divers that aired on (what was formerly) The Documentary Channel. Silent Choices, a documentary Pennick directed and produced, won the Best Documentary Award at the 2007 Roxbury Film Festival. Pennick wrote, directed, produced and edited the award-winning narrative short, Running on Eggshells, which aired on U.S. television in the fall of 2007. She also produced the narrative short film Harlem Sistas Double Dutch. Harlem Sistas aired on the WNET/New York film series Reel New York in 2005. Pennick is also an author. Her book about D'Angelo's "Voodoo" album for the "33 1/3 Music" series will be published by Bloomsbury in the spring of 2020. Pennick was born and raised in Chicago. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.