Penn Film & Media Pioneers
New Pioneers Panel
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Douglas Belgrad, C’87, is President
of Production for Columbia Pictures. Along with Matt
Tolmach, he oversees Columbia’s slate of 12 to
15 films annually and manages the creative staff at
the legendary studio. In recent years, he has supervised
dozens of films, including Hitch, 50 First
Dates, Men
in Black, Bad Boys 2, Identity and Mr.
Deeds. He is
currently overseeing a number of highly anticipated
projects, including Fun with Dick and Jane starring
Jim Carrey and Te´a Leoni; writer/director Steve Zaillian’s
All the King’s Men starring Sean Penn,
Jude Law and Meryl Streep; Rob Marshall’s adaptation
of
Memoirs of a Geisha; The Legend of Zorro starring
Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones; RV starring
Robin Williams with Barry Sonnenfeld directing; Click starring
Adam Sandler and the animated motion picture Monster
House produced by Robert Zemeckis. Prior to being
named Co-President of Production, he served for four
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| Duncan Kenworthy, ASC’73, is
Managing Director of DNA Films Ltd. and Toledo Pictures,
and is one of Britain’s leading film producers.
He worked on Sesame Street for six years and then for
Jim Henson Productions for 15 years before producing
his first film. His film credits include Four Weddings
and a Funeral, Gulliver’s Travels, Lawn
Dogs, Notting Hill, The Parole Officer and Love
Actually. He is Chairman of the British Academy
of Film and Television Arts, a Governor of the UK’s
National Film and Television School and a member of
the British Council’s Arts Advisory Board. He
has won five British Academy of Film and Television
Arts Awards and three Emmys, and has been nominated
for one Oscar and three Golden Globe Awards. In 1999,
he was appointed to the Order of the British Empire
for services to the British film industry.
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Warren Lieberfarb, W’65, is
Chairman of Lieberfarb & Associates LLC, a Los
Angeles-based consulting and investment firm specializing
in media, entertainment and technology. In 2002, he
completed more than 20 years at Warner Home Video,
where he had been President since 1984. Before that,
he was Senior Vice President for Sales and Marketing.
Prior to Warner Brothers, he served as Vice President
of Telecommunications at Twentieth Century Fox and
as Executive Assistant to the President of Paramount
Pictures. Currently, he serves on numerous boards,
including Sirius Satellite Radio and the American Film
Institute, and at Penn on the Board of Trustees, Library
Board of Overseers and Wharton’s Undergraduate
Advisory Board. His awards include a 1999 Emmy, the Chevalier
dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from
the French Ministry of Culture and Communications,
the Medal du Festival from the Cannes Film
Festival and the MIPCOM DVD Lifetime Achievement Award.
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