Josh Penn
Producer
Josh Penn is a producer with the Department of Motion Pictures. He produced Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), which won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, the Caméra d'Or at Cannes, and was nominated for four Academy Awards (including Best Picture). He has also held producing roles on Patti Cake$ (Sundance 2017), Western (Sundance 2015 Special Jury Prize Winner), The Great Invisible (SXSW 2014 Grand Jury Prize Winner,) and Contemporary Color among other films. Josh premiered two projects at Sundance 2018: Monsters and Men (Special Jury Prize for Outstanding First Feature) and the live documentary A Thousand Thoughts.
Courses and Featured Content
Video
Creative Producers: Best Practices for Pitching with Peter Saraf (LOVING), Mary Jane Skalski (AMERICAN ANIMALS), and Josh Penn (MONSTERS AND MEN)
Producer: Josh Penn and 2 more
Creative Producers: Best Practices for Pitching with Peter Saraf (LOVING), Mary Jane Skalski (AMERICAN ANIMALS), and Josh Penn (MONSTERS AND MEN)
With: Josh Penn, Mary Jane Skalski and Peter Saraf
Getting good at pitching yourself and your project. Veteran Producers share their best practices for giving a pitch and making it count.
What Does a Producer Do?
With: Effie Brown, Diana Williams, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Josh Penn, Mary Jane Skalski and Sev Ohanian
What in fact, does a producer actually do? Veteran producers describes their multi-faceted roles and what being a producer means.