After 10 weeks of competition, Paul Shore’s (C’96) short film Being Iraqi is now in the final round of the Digital Diversity Online competition featuring short films about cultural diversity! Being Iraqi follows Iraqi- Canadian hip hop MC Yassin Alsalman (aka The Narcycist) over the US/Canada border to a show to see what life is […]
Mitch Teplitsky’s (C’80) (in photo to left) got a great story to tell…documentary style. Featured in Pennfest 2004, Mitch’s documentary Soy Andina, tells the story of two New York women raised in different worlds — an immigrant folk dancer from the Andes, and a modern dancer from Queens, NY — who return to Peru in […]
Another alum with a documentary! Check out and vote for (by November 4) Paul Shore (C’96)‘s short film Being Iraqi. This film just made it to the quarterfinals in an online contest being hosted by Radio Canada International featuring short films about cultural diversity. Being Iraqi follows Iraqi- Canadian hip hop MC Yassin Alsalman (aka […]
>http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1783 Producing a feature-length motion picture is a daunting task. All the more so if you do it without the support of a major studio using money you have raised yourself. But according to independent filmmaker Lance Weiler, “the real struggle” comes after the film is completed. Distributing a theatrical feature — and doing so […]
(Videos above taken of the Dueling Tampons from Reunion Weekend 2007.) For those subscribers of my daily emails, I hope you’ve been enjoying all the latest news about our creative Penn community. For those new readers from today’s Daily Pennsylvanian article, below are some of the highlights of what’s been going on here since I […]