From documentaries about oil spills to prison baseball teams, filmmaker Loren Mendell (C’95, Friars) documentary which was featured in this year’s Slamdance is now on TV this week. Loren’s latest film Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene tells the unlikely story of America’s first shock jock Petey Greene and features Howard Stern, Marion […]
In the spirit of the upcoming presidential election, Erika Frankel’s (C’00) documentary campaign film (with a twist!) is about to be released nationwide on October 24th. Since I posted about Erika’s film FrontrunnersĀ last September, they had their world premiere in competition at South by Southwest (SXSW) and were picked up for distribution by Adam Yauch’s […]
Apparently Penn is featured in the new documentary IOUSA which came out last Friday, 8/22. A guy is featured on Locust Walk handing out pamphlets about our nation’s debt. (check out the clip below). The trailer seems pretty interesting.. and is being compared to An Inconvenient Truth in terms of opening all of our eyes […]
As Penn has just graduated another class into the world, I thought it would be fun to showcase Kabir Bedi’s (C’11) fun little short class project “investigation” on how bright Penn students actually are ….or aren’t? š Watch it here Other Fun Class Project Videos Check out what else is happening on campus Win the […]
On this day of remembering the 6 million Jewish lives that were lost during the Holocaust, I want to bring to your attention Swimming in Auschwitz, the fantastic documentary from filmmaker Jon Kean (C’89, Mask and Wig, Friars). Per Jon, “The interwoven stories of six women provide a glimpse into life, spirit and survival at […]
Glenn Osten Anderson’s (C’02, Pennfest 2007) web-video project for The Long Road just got nominated for a Webby Award yesterday and he needs your help. From the film’s press release, āThe Long Road not only builds on our mission to promote exercise and athletics, but gives us the opportunity to profile a unique side of […]