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He’s Won Two Prestigious Grants For His Tasty Short Film
More news of Hollywood alumni working together. Jake Avnet (C’05, Co-Chairman of Undergraduate Film Advisory Board, Founder of the Lecture Series, “Talking Film”) produced a short film called LAST MEAL with Penn alum writer Tracy Park (W’05), Micah Fitzerman-Blue (Harvard grad), and director Mark Stern (Princeton grad). This short film has been the recipient of two very prestigious […]
Penn Producer Turning Penn Writer’s Book Into a Movie!
Another story of Penn alumni working together in Hollywood. Thanks to a popular Penn publication, Adam Lebovitz (W’03) has now optioned Craig Boreth’s (C’91, First male drummer in Bloomers pit band) (pictured below) book, “How To Feel Manly In A Minivan”. Craig’s book is a survival guide for new dads, helping each guy facing fatherhood […]
He’s Producing A Big Apology Film
He’s got an upcoming Jessica Biel film in the works, as well as a film based on a girl who interns for a famous teen starlet. Now Neil Parris (C’01) will be executive producing “Apologize, Apologize” a comedy drama based on Elizabeth Kelly’s book about an “eccentric New England family”. Per the Hollywood Reporter: “The […]
Major Film Company Wants This Penn Alum’s Book!
What if you had the opportunity to go back in time and choose a different path? It’s a question we all ask ourselves and author Allison Winn Scotch‘s (C’95, Theta, DP Columnist) wrote a book about it…that’s about to go Hollywood. Not only will this book be published in October 2008, but the Weinstein Company […]
He’s Producing Another Winning Film And That’s A Fact
Marc Platt (C’79, Glee Club) will be co-producing a live action movie to author Jason Carter Eaton’s children’s book The Facttracker. Per a great review for the book on goodreads.com: “The Facttracker works in the Factory finding facts which the people of Traakerfaxx then supply to the world. When the just small enough boy, who […]
Penn Producer Gets Self-Guided
Todd Lieberman (C’95, AEPi, Mask & Wig) will be producing a new film for Disney entitled Self-Guided. Per the Hollywood Reporter, “the story centers on a man who magically goes back to high school as a guidance counselor to give advice to his younger self.” The funny thing about this film is that Jared Stern, […]
