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Your Insiders Look at Penn in Cannes 2010 …all this week!
Over the past two years (2008 coverage and 2009 coverage ) we’ve given you an insider’s look at the films and politics of the Cannes Film festival from the perspective of our Penn in Cannes program correspondents. This year Chloe Castellon (C’11) just finished her week in Cannes and is our DT Correspondent giving us […]
These New Penn Alumni Go Gaga for Lady Gaga (VIDEO)
Since my filmmaking days at Penn, technology has changed in such a way that the films the students put out these days look really very professional. That said, last week, Brian Tran (W’10) (and former “Penn in Cannes 2009” correspondent) let me know about a new reinterpretation of Lady Gaga’s “Speechless” music video he and […]
Best of DT 2009: My Top 21 Posts
Before the ball drops tonight, I wanted to wrap up 2009 with what I am deeming my “2009 best of” list. If I could say one thing about the type of posts I did about our alumni in 2009, I would say that self-expression was very prominent this year via the spoken word, the […]
Penn Alumni Dish Advice in Cannes & What the Entertainment Industry is Looking for in Its Next Generation of Employees
All last week, I posted about Brian Tran’s (W’10) inside scoop of his time at the Penn in Cannes Program. As our final “Cannes” post, Julie Blanc (W’12), another one of my great DT correspondents fills us in on advice given this year from Penn alumni:-Rick Hess (C’84, Head of Creative Artist Agency’s Film Finance […]
Penn in Cannes: He Begs and Scores The Hottest Ticket in Cannes
Over this past week, our DT correspondent Brian Tran (W’10) has talked about how he got into screenings without too much begging, how tears welled up in everyone’s 3D-glasses-covered-eyes, and the hot and not-so-hot movies of Cannes. In today’s post, Brian sums up his Cannes experience, reveals something that made him squirm and scream, and […]
Penn in Cannes: The Must Sees and The Must Skips
Yesterday, our DT correspondent Brian Tran (W’10) talked about the opening night of the 2009 Cannes festival and his take on the Pixar film Up. In today’s post, Brian reviews some of the good and not so good films that people were buzzing about. Click here for the inside scoop! “Hollywood’s presence at this year’s […]
