Over the past three years (2008 coverage and 2009 coverage and 2010 coverage) DT has given you an insider's look at the films and politics of the Cannes Film festival from the perspective of our Penn in Cannes program correspondents.

This year DT correspondent Jonah Stern (C'13) recently returned from the 2011 Cannes film festival with coverage of this year's winner and loser films plus more! A local Philadelphian, Jonah aspires to one day enter the film industry and, hopefully, become a very successful filmmaker.

After the jump check out Jonah's coverage on:

• difficulty getting into movie screenings
• the good films
• some (highly marketed) big films to avoid
• hobnobbing with celebrities and what Faye Dunaway said to Jonah(!)
• advice from 4 Penn Hollywood alumni about the business

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Great entertainment career advice alert!

This past summer, the Penn Women's council hosted a "career mentoring" event in Los Angeles featuring "winning woman" CW Entertainment President (and Penn parent) Dawn Ostroff.

The event was for recent female graduates as well as female juniors and senior undergrads.  ...And yes, I attended it so I could bring it all to you, my DT readers!

As you'll see in the DT exclusive videos below, Dawn is another example of having a great career path filled with lots of changes and rich experiences. 

Listen to her journey in our videos after the jump! 

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