Event

Tamara Jenkins                                                  Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve

Join us at Writers House on Thursday, March 14, at 6:00 PM for this year’s Hartman Screenwriting Symposium, a conversation with screenwriter and film director Tamara Jenkins. Philadelphia-born Jenkins is the winner of a Guggenheim fellowship and was nominated for multiple Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay, for her 2007 feature length film The Savages. She is also the writer/director of The Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), featuring Natasha Lyonne, Marisa Tomei, and Alan Arkin, and last year’s Netflix film Private Life (2018), starring Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn. Jenkins will be in conversation with Penn Cinema & Media Studies and Creative Writing instructor Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve. If you’d like to join us, please RSVP by emailing wh@writing.upenn.edu or by calling 215-746-POEM.