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 REALARTS INTERNSHIP WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

Per the RealArts announcement today:

“1) At MTV Networks, in the Creative Services department, the intern will be Kerry Golds. Kerry is a junior Comparative Literature/Literary Theory major and a minor in Hispanic Studies. She is the Editor in Chief of 34th Street Magazine and a peer advisor for the College of Arts and Science. MTV’s Cheryl Family, a Penn alumna, helped us coordinate this project.
http://writing.upenn.edu/realarts/mtv.html

2) Our first Rolling Stone magazine intern will be John Vilanova. John is a junior, an English major and Music minor. He has studied music history from Gregorian chants to modern music, with special emphases on operas, symphonies, jazz, and modern music technology. He is a veteran of Anthony DeCurtis’s “Arts and Popular Culture” seminar. He is on the board of SPEC Jazz and Grooves, a concert-planning committee, and he is a radio DJ. Kudos to Anthony DeCurtis for helping us arrange this special internship.
http://writing.upenn.edu/realarts/rollingstone.html

3) Working at Brooklyn Films in L.A. with producer/director Jon Avnet (Risky Business, Uprising, etc.), a Penn alumnus and overseer in the School of Arts and Sciences, will be Kevin McMullin. Kevin a junior Communications/Consumer Psychology major who loves to make movies. He won the Drama Category of the Greater Philadelphia Student Film Festival. He has writen film reviews for “ 34th Street Magazine” and is currently enrolled in one of our screenwriting workshops. RealArts would like to express gratitude to Jon Avnet for her generosity.
http://writing.upenn.edu/realarts/brooklynfilms.html

4) At Women Make Movies will be Maggie Borden. Maggie a sophomore majoring in Cinema Studies. She has taken many Cinema studies courses and is deeply involved in the student-theater community at Penn, enjoying both creative and technical positions. She is an aspiring filmmaker. Many thanks to Karen Beckman who helped us arrange this internship.
http://writing.upenn.edu/realarts/wmm.html

5) At Shore Fire Media in NYC, a standard-setting marketing group, will be Joyce Lee. Joyce is a junior dual major Wharton/College student majoring in Economics in Marketing and Visual Studies. She has taken classes at Penn about diverse media forms such as ‘The Graphic Novel as Literature’ as well as ‘Film Analysis and Methods’ – along with those about business fundamentals such statistics and accounting. Joyce is promotions director for WQHS, Penn’s student-run radio station. Kudos again to Anthony DeCurtis for this one.
http://writing.upenn.edu/realarts/shorefire.html

6) Learning editing and book publishing at Grand Central Publishing (former Warner Books) will be Heather Schwedel. Heather is a junior majoring in communications and English. She is the features editor of 34th Street magazine and has participated in the “Write On” tutoring project at the Kelly Writers House. We are grateful to Caryn Karmatz-Rudy, a longtime editor and Penn alumna, for her help on this internship.
http://writing.upenn.edu/realarts/grandcentral.html”

More about this paid internship here