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His New Production Company’s Hot New Viral Videos You MUST See!

I’ve got another Penn alum filmmaker you all should keep your eye on who produced 2 viral hits I want to share –one a funny commercial for “Trojans2Go” and the other which brilliantly combines a Talking Heads song with the film American Psycho! Last year, I did a post about how Jake Avnet (C’05, Co-Chairman […]

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Alumni Make History with Viral Videos

Two weeks ago I wrote a post about how Executive producers Todd Shotz (C’96) and Andrew Oldershaw (C’02), as well as writer/director Dan Kay (C’97) created four very viral “No on Prop 8” viral videos. This past week, in a first for an American political campaign, the NO on Prop 8 campaign paid to air […]

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Three Alumni Go Viral with “No on Prop 8” Celebrity Videos

On November 4th, Californians will be asked to make a monumental civil rights decision around the issue of same-sex marriage. Last week, three Los Angeles based Penn alumni decided to take action against this Proposition 8.  Executive producers Todd Shotz (C’96) and Andrew Oldershaw (C’02), as well as writer/director  Dan Kay (C’97) created four very viral PSAs against this proposition including […]

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Undergrad Election Videos Go Viral …Again!

We’ve been hearing promises of commitment, creativity and change come recently from Hillary and Obama… and now from the Class of 2011! In Fall 2007, the 2011 candidates were using web videos to promote themselves for Class Offices and the Undergrad Assembly. It seems like everyone’s back now from Spring Break and they’re campaigning hard […]

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Saved By the Bell meets Final Destination: His Brilliant Viral Hit

Over the years I’ve featured brilliant, high quality viral hits from producer Jake Avnet (C’05, Co-Chairman of Undergraduate Film Advisory Board, Founder of the Lecture Series, “Talking Film”). We’re talking awesome films about Trojan condoms, a very NSFW short with Scott Baio, a film with the real Jersey Shore cast, and another NSFW film about […]

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Penn Alum victim of “The Streisand Effect”; appears in banned IPad viral video

Actor Neil Hellegers (C’99, Arts House Theatre, Pi Lam) has quite an interesting story here… Recently, Neil shot a commercial for Newsday (Long Island/NYC local paper) for their new IPad application. In the spot, Neil demonstrates that the new Newsday Ipad app is better than the newspaper in all kinds of ways, except for one… In a […]

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