Plot Weaver
Documentary editor Nancy Novack C’87’s wide-ranging career.
Social Media Storms, and Real Ones
David Branson Smith C’06 is an overnight success after 10 years.
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.
Rags to Riches to Ruin
Fantastic, flawed, forgotten Mr. Fox. The Man Who Made the Movies.
Our Love Affair with Movies
A movie producer and Class of ’68 alumnus recalls the cinematic passions of his senior year—and offers some advice on rekindling the romance for today’s audiences.
Projecting Race
Series revives and reexamines “race films.”
Everybody Comes to Casablanca
In film scholar Noah Isenberg C’89’s engaging investigation of “Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie,” the lives of the émigré actors who made up most of the cast share the spotlight with the famous love triangle and wartime call to arms. Their stories also echo forward to our own era’s debates over the treatment of refugees and immigration policy.
Capturing The Elephant Man
A producer tells the stories behind the story of a classic movie.
The Man Behind the La La Magic
La La Land producer Fred Berger C’03 was there from the beginning
Screen-Player
Scott Neustadter C’98’s latest screenplay is The Disaster Artist.
Director Gone Bad
Mean Girls director Mark Waters C’86 is taking a shot at R-rated comedy with Bad Santa 2 this Thanksgiving—and still trying to figure out his place in ever-evolving Hollywood.
Grappling with Tragedy
Alumni wrestlers teamed up for documentary, Team Foxcatcher.
The Essential Tinseltown
Cinema studies’ Peter Decherney on Hollywood history.
Behind the Bamboo Camera
“Father of Philippine Independent Cinema” Kidlak Tahimik WG’67.
Penn Masala Nails Perfect Pitch
Penn Masala gets a Hollywood moment in Pitch Perfect 2.
The Staid Dissertation Gets a Motion-Picture Makeover
Coming attraction: first film to be submitted as Penn dissertation.