The Double Life of Ernest Withers
A double exposure in Lise Yasui C’77’s The Picture Taker.
It’s Complicated
Ken Burns reflects on the filmic portrayal of historical heroes.
When Boys Grieve
Giving voice to grief over gun violence.
Streaming Surgeons
Two Penn alumni doctors star in Netflix docuseries Lenox Hill.
Film for Social Change
Penn students from a variety of disciplines are learning the essentials of film storytelling and production while helping to give a voice to marginalized people and communities, from Philadelphia’s high schools to a refugee settlement in Kenya to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
Unpacking the Industrial Lunch Box
A recent installation at Slought offered manufactured food for thought.
Portrait of a Moral Breakdown
Documentary portrait of a “mega fraudster.” Unraveled
A Stage for Hope
Melissa Fitzgerald C’87
Hunting Shadows
A new documentary pursues the reasons why so many Nazi war criminals were never brought to justice.
Driven
Rick Cohen C’87
And the Final Round Goes to … Argument Man
Douglas Robbins L’01
A Hymn to the Parks
Dayton Duncan sees the national parks as the “Declaration of Independence applied to the landscape.” Now he and Ken Burns have made an epic movie about them.
Polonius Was Right!
James Scurlock W’93
Buzz for a Cathedral
ESPN to air Palestra documentary
Opening Tip-off: Action!
Documentary celebrates Penn’s Palestra
Film and the Sport of Life
Jonathan Hock C’85
The Power of Innocence
Marc Simon C’96
Homage to a Cathedral of Hoops
Palestra praiser Mikaelyn Austin
Travels with Tarzan: A Documentary Odyssey
Two filmmakers went on the road with a family-owned circus and found enough human drama outside the ring to rival the snarling tigers, horse-riding bears, and aerial acrobatics within.