> 1) Your name, class year and activities you were involved in at PennMatthew C. Johnson C’99, Mask & Wig, Phi Kappa Sigma 2) What news you would like me to consider: I directed and produced a number of new shorts hitting the internet: “Pepsi Challenge:” produced with my sketch group The Royal We(www.theroyalwe.org), this […]
Our undergrads and alumni are not only mentally fit, but in the case of Collete DeBenedetto (C’08), physically fit as well. Look out for Collette who is featured in the February 08′ issue of the women’s fitness magazine, Oxygen (on newsstands now!) She is in the “Tomorrow’s Cover Girls” section looking hot! From […]
Norm Golightly (W’94, Mask and Wig) will be producing Darren Aronofsky’s drama The Wrestler starring Nicolas Cage. Per Variety, “the story centers on a a 1980s-era wrestling star, who scrapes by doing small-time matches in New Jersey’s backwaters.” Norm currently runs Nicolas Cage’s production company Saturn Films. I have known Norm since our Mask and […]
>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 […]
Just last week, Glenn Osten Anderson (C’02) flew to LA to attend Pennfest 2007 where we showed a clip from his film Mission: SEC Football.(it just won two ACCOLADE TELEVISION awards one for Best Internet TV and one for Videography) Apparently, Glenn has a thing for sports related films. His latest project, The Long Run […]