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Penny Lane鈥檚 new film NUTS! to premiere at Sundance

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NUTS!, a new documentary film by assistant professor of art and art history , will premiere at next month鈥檚 Sundance Film Festival. NUTS! tells the story of John Romulus Brinkley, who, in 1917, offered a cure for impotence by transplanting goat testicles.

鈥淪undance is by far the premiere venue to launch an American independent feature film,鈥 Lane said. 鈥淚 was overjoyed by the invitation, and I am really excited to see how the audience there responds to the film.鈥

The New York Times, citing the festival鈥檚 lineup guide, , 鈥淚n keeping with a recent trend in documentary filmmaking, nontraditional, sometimes controversial storytelling techniques will be on full display [at Sundance] 鈥 The director Penny Lane, for instance, uses animated re-enactments and 鈥榦ne seriously unreliable narrator鈥 to trace the 鈥榤ostly true鈥 story of a man who found success selling a goat-testicle impotence cure.鈥

Penny Lane

Lane鈥檚 previous credits include Our Nixon, a documentary featuring home movies shot by President Richard Nixon鈥檚 aides, and The Voyagers, a short film about 鈥渢wo small spacecraft, an epic journey, taking risks, and falling in love. Also Carl Sagan.鈥 Lane traveled the hemisphere in search of background information for NUTS! Her expeditions 鈥 and the film itself 鈥 were funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, Creative Capital, the Tribeca Film Institute, the 51风流 Research Council, and a successful .

鈥淎 campaign like that has the added effect of creating a small but enthusiastic army of fans who feel like they were in it 鈥榝rom the beginning.,鈥欌 Lane said.

Find out more at and, in the weeks ahead, on the website.