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They Roasted Bob Saget at the Friars Roast!
The Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget Preview – Benny, Escaped Convict www.comedycentral.com Tosh.0 Funny Jokes The Comedy Awards Back in June I reported that Ryan Levin (C’98, Without a Net, Theater Arts, Penn Players) and Nye Warburton (C ’97, Without a Net) had co-created a new animated Comedy Central web series for Benny: Escaped […]
DT Hollywood Bits & Pieces
Lots of Penn news happening this week on-campus and off!… Catch This Alum’s Film on DVD! Jon Hurwtitz’s (W’00) Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay now on DVD My past posts about Jon here He’s On a New Show and He’s Looking for an Agent Tom Christensen (W’03, Mask and Wig) just landed a […]
His Nominated Documentary Needs Your Vote
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, “The Long Road not only builds on our mission to promote exercise and athletics, but gives us the opportunity to profile a unique side of […]
These 6 Undergrads Are Getting Paid to Work in Entertainment
Last month I wrote about a fantastic new Penn sponsored entertainment internship program called RealArts. This program awards six paid ($2500!) summer internships – at MTV Networks, Rolling Stone magazine, Brooklyn Films, Shore Fire Media, Grand Central Publishing (former Warner Books), and Women Make Movies. Today Penn announced the winners of this internship program! 2/29/08 […]
They’re running a film festival in Philadelphia
Believe it or not there’s another Penn related film festival outside of the Los Angeles based Pennfest film & music festival. It’s the Greater Philadelphia Student Film Festival (GPSFF) and this one is only for current Penn (and neighboring Philadelphia college) students and alumni one year out. You hear that undergrad filmmakers I posted about […]
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 […]
