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Penn alum producing next Jessica Biel film
Another note about another alum who was in the trades a couple weeks back… Neil Parris (C’01) of FilmColony will be executive producing the next Jessica Biel film Die a Little Per Variety, “Die a Little explores how the lives of a schoolteacher and her LAPD detective brother are turned upside down by a mysterious […]
Top 5 “Penn” Facebook Widgets: #5
Okay, if you haven’t done it already, you’ll just need to join facebook. Yes, it used to be just for undergrads gawking over the new incoming freshmen class (okay it probably still is), but over the past year it has expanded into something more powerful…for everyone of all ages. It’s a much more powerful site […]
This Penn alum’s film is in the finals!
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 […]
A home on campus for bands, jugglers, irish fiddlers, & belly dancers
I love this. It seems with the new Platt Student Performing Arts House, Penn has really been providing students with some very cool opportunities. (thank you Marc Platt (C’79)!) From this fantastic program to an even more fantastic, dare I say “cool” opportunity open to students, staff, faculty and alums(!). More after the jump…Twice a […]
Lance Weiler (Wharton):The Last Broadcast
>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 […]
Penn all over 2007-2008 TV Schedule
As I continue to be inundated by TV promos, I’m realizing that there are a good number of alumni both in front of and behind the camera… Click here to see what we’ve got going on… THURSDAYS Donald Trump (W’68), Ivanka Trump (W’04) and Don Trump Jr. (W’00) are back in The Celebrity Apprentice Becki […]
