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Penn Alumni Dish Advice in Cannes & What the Entertainment Industry is Looking for in Its Next Generation of Employees
All last week, I posted about Brian Tran’s (W’10) inside scoop of his time at the Penn in Cannes Program. As our final “Cannes” post, Julie Blanc (W’12), another one of my great DT correspondents fills us in on advice given this year from Penn alumni:-Rick Hess (C’84, Head of Creative Artist Agency’s Film Finance […]
Penn in Cannes: Begging and Tips For Scoring You Tickets & Access
Yesterday, Felisha Liu (W’09) shared some of the good, bad and disappointing films she saw at Cannes. She also mentioned that “Cannes is a private festival for industry professionals. As such, the only way to get tickets to premiere screenings is to beg. The industry insiders are penalized for not using their allotment of tickets […]
Pennalicious Profile: You’ll Want To Tune Into His Next Show
Over the past few days, we’ve been talking about Roy Bank (C’94), reality head honcho over at Mark Burnett Productions and now President of Merv Griffin Television. I have mentioned that Roy oversaw such Mark Burnett shows as Apprentice, Survivor, RockStar and Contender… Before Roy left, he not only created and executive produced Are You […]
Penn Reporter Catches 25 Looking Into Britney’s Privates
Charles Ornstein appears on Los Angeles TV news station KTLA Pulitzer prize winning LA Times journalist Charles Ornstein (C’96, Daily Pennsylvanian Executive Editor) just broke yet another story. This time it’s inside UCLA Medical Center, a premiere Los Angeles hospital where Britney Spears’ medical records were probed unnecessarily and illegally by 25 employees (including doctors). […]
Love Week: She’s a Cupid for Penn Alumni
It’s Valentine’s Day and that means that we’ve reached our last day in our Love Week series. Before we end this though, I have 3 fantastic posts coming up today! First up… Hey single NYC Penn alumni…Someone wants to set you up. After reading my “Love Week” posts, Saryn Chorney (C’00) contacted me to let […]
The horrific results when 2 Penn creatives come together
What happens when a Penn alum film producer works with a Penn alum writer to produce a horror film? Hopefully it gets made and hopefully it gets good reviews. This is exactly what has happened in both cases when Todd Shotz (C’96, Glee Club, Penn Players), VP of Rifkin Eberts collaborated with writer Dan Kay […]
