What was the first film directed by Penelope Spheeris?
Penelope Spheeris
Spheeris spent her first seven years traveling around the American South and American Midwest with her father's carnival.[8]  Her father was shot and killed in Troy, Alabama after intervening in a racial dispute.  In a 2015 interview, Spheeris stated that her father had come to the aid of an African American man who had been struck on the back of the head with a cane by a white man over a dispute about cutting in front of him in line.  The white man soon after returned and shot Spheeris' father dead.  She states that her father's killer served no jail time, the man's legal defence apparently resting entirely on the claim that he was justified in murdering Spheeris senior as "he was defending a black."[6]