Earlier this year I posted about the talented documentary filmmaker Loren Mendell (C'95, Friars) and his film Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene. The film has now been nominated for the Independent Lens Audience Award and he needs your vote!

Watch the trailer above and read more about his film from my previous post HERE

To vote, you don't need to sign in - just click the following link below: 
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/award2009runoff.html

Learn more about Loren's other documentaries!

Click to see what other 1995 Penn grads are up to  

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Back in my college years, if you had a problem, you could blow your Penn rape whistle or go to one of the blue "call" boxes on campus and dial for help.

Rest assured undergrads, grads and prospects, Penn continues to up their safety measures.

As of this past week, Penn has installed more than a dozen sirens on campus as part of the emergency alert system.  Check out the news report video above to learn more! Also listen to Maureen Rush, Penn's Vice President for Public Safety unveil the Siren Outdoor System, "PennSOS".

Special thanks to Meg from 2birds1blog.com for the Penn rape whistle image above!

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This week VH1 celebrated its new show "The Great Debate" with an Ivy League showdown in New York City between Penn, Columbia, Harvard and Yale.

Watch the video above to find out how Penn won(!) by defending both the "YMCA" dance craze and Obama as "the world's savior" in this "pop culture blood bath."

I'm sure you'll agree that Noah Becker's (C'09) mad rapping skillz helped Penn win the title!  Plus major points out to Noah for using the phrase "magnum opus" in describing the "YMCA" song.

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Recently Jordan Zucker (C'97, Theta) appeared alongside Chef Bobby Flay in the entire half hour "Rib-Eye Episode" of "Grill It! with Bobby Flay".  Jordan grilled up some tasty football inspired dishes alongside the grill-master himself.

Check out the 6 minute edited down video above.  As you'll see the 2 of them have great chemistry together ...and Bobby even says that Jordan should get her own show!


The recipes Jordan grilled up with Bobby include:

• “Rib-Eye”k Hillard in an Earnest “Gremolata” Marinade
• Smokey Anthony “Poblano” Cream Sauce
• Tyler “Fig”pen Balsamic Glazed Red Onions
• “Waterm”ellen Winslow Salad:
• John Daly Cocktail (aka “The J.D.”)
  

Find out how to make these by visiting Jordan's Girls Guide to Fantasy Football Website HERE!

Follow Jordan on Twitter HERE

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Kristin Fairweather (Penn Grad '01, Masters in Government Administration, Alumni Relations) is in the running for winning a  $350,000 production grant and a guarantee of a premiere at next year’s LA Film Festival. ...and they need your vote!

Once producer Kristin and writer/director Jenny Deller found out they were one of the top 10 semi-finalists in the Netflix Find Your Voice competition, they were tasked with creating the above 3-minute short that reflected the feature in style or theme. 
 
Tasked with shooting a 3-minute short they decided against doing a traditional trailer and shot a stand-alone script called "Save the Future" that we bill as "a companion piece" to the feature length film (and recent Nantucket Film Festival screenplay award winning) Future Weather.  If they are selected as the winner of the Netflix contest then they get the funds to shoot the feature.

"Save the Future" Netflix Short description:
In Deller's 3-minute companion short for the Netflix competition, FUTURE WEATHER's protagonist reimagines a day in her life as a public service announcement, blurring the lines between family struggles and fear of environmental apocalypse.

 Future Weather Feature logline:
Future Weather, is a coming-of-age tale about a 13-year-old environmentalist. Central to the stories of three rural women, is the gifted but lonely Laduree, an aspiring conservationist whose experiments to save the planet from global warming are destroyed when her single mom runs away to find herself.

Check out the film above.  It really is a beautiful piece of work!

Help Kristin get to the final phase of the contest by VOTING HERE or voting within the video module above! (voting ends July 5)

Find out why Kristin left her career in Politics and how she got started in entertainment HERE

Other Penn alumni who followed their passion and changed careers HERE

On an environmentally related note, check out all my posts about Penn going green HERE!

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