Event

Penn Film and Media Pioneers

9:00 - 9:30 am
Opening Remarks
Rebecca Bushnell, Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Timothy Corrigan, Director, Cinema Studies Program

9:30 - 11:00 am
Pioneers
Moderator: Peter Decherney, Penn Cinema Studies
Katherine Sender, Penn Communication, on Eadweard Muybridge and non-fiction film at Penn
Michael Chaiken, International House, on Amos Vogel
Douglas Gomery, U of Maryland Media Studies, on William Paley and CBS

11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Film Studies Students
Moderator: Timothy Corrigan, Penn Cinema Studies
Cristina Alberto, Penn senior
Margaret Hennefeld, Penn senior
Michael Highland, Penn junior
Michael Kleinman, Penn senior
Emily Ritzmann, Penn senior

1:45 - 3:15 pm
Current Film and Media Research
Moderator: Karen Beckman, Penn Cinema Studies
Peter Decherney, Penn Cinema Studies, on copyright history
Paul Messaris, Penn Communications, on Grad-School B-Movie
C. Edwin Baker, Penn Law School, on media ownership

3:30 - 5:15 pm
New Pioneers
Moderator: Warren Lieberfarb, Chairman, Lieberfarb & Associates
Douglas Belgrad, President of Production, Columbia Pictures
Geoffrey Gilmore, Director, Sundance Film Festival
Duncan Kenworthy, Managing Director, DNA Films Ltd. and Toledo Pictures

Reception to follow