Search Results
The Economic Crisis and the Croisette: Penn Alumni Weigh in on the Current State of the Entertainment Industry
This week, our Penn in Cannes 2010 DT correspondent Chloe Castellon (C’11) reviewed some of the good and horribly awful films of this year’s film festival, talked about the badge system and how she conned her way into some of the better theatres. In her final post, Chloe shares with us inside info about the […]
Begging, Bamboozling, and B.S.ing: How to Cheat the Badge System at Cannes
Yesterday, our Penn in Cannes 2010 DT correspondent Chloe Castellon (C’11) reviewed some of the winner and horribly awful films of this year’s film festival. In today’s post, Chloe talks about the badge system and how to con your way into some of the better theatres. More insight (and photos of some of the theaters […]
The Lackluster Year that was Cannes 2010 and Why Audiences Were Leaving the Theaters
Yesterday, I introduced Chloe Castellon (C’11), our special Penn in Cannes DT correspondent for the 2010 Cannes Film festival. Today, Chloe give us scoop on: the winning films that kept her on the edge of her seat the “bitterly disappointing” films she saw and the surprisingly overall poor selection of films for this year’s festival. […]
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 […]
