Also known as: penn_production
Robert Penn's production company provides clients with digital video that attracts and holds their audiences attention. Seven new Public Service Announcements premired on Saturday, September , at The Riverside Church, NYC, NY. Seven people shared experiences coming to terms with being both religious and lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). These PSAs along with produced last year for LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent promote reconciliation between organized religion and LGBT faithful and LGBT combat bullying. You can view them at httpsvimeo.comchannelssteppingout. We shot and edited live performances and numerous intranet seminars in and . Our documentary, Other Countries th Anniversary Celebration Video, can be viewed online httpwww.vimeo.com Penn worked as Director of Photography on Finah Misa Kul, a documentary about northeastern Sierra Leone in April and June . The film, premired in NYC on April , . In , Penn produceddirected six -second Public Service Announcements that promote HIV-testing to Newarks Black Gay men. The PSAs are part of an environmental public health campaign that was unveiled by Mayor Cory Booker in Newark, New Jerseys City Hall on February , . Penns other clients include The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the New York Public Library. He also developed video design for the Remix of PomoAfroHomos Off-Broadway hit Fierce Love. The show premiered in at National Performance Network and had runs in D.C. and L.A. and a run in San Francisco. httpsvimeo.com New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) awarded Penn a Individual Artist Grant in Film and VideoNew Media Technologies. His three-minute digital film for Ronald K. Browns dance homage to Nina Simone, Come Ye, was lauded by performance critic Theodore Bale as stunning digital film in his March , Boston Herald column. Specialties Producing, directing, shooting, editing and delivering corporate and training videos, documentaries, events, news editorial and live performances. We shoot and edit the footage then author it onto DVD or encode it for Internet applications.
