Audience members said they enjoyed Fennessy's talk, emphasizing his wide-ranging knowledge and willingness to share it with others.
"He's pretty firm: he knows what he's talking about--a professional," audience member Christian Karl said.
"I find Kevin to be really warm and willing to give information as to how he got to where he is," Carol A. Turkoc said. "His talk shows Boston as being a community of creative people instead of something cutthroat."
Valerie H. Weiss, a student at Harvard Medical School who organized the talk as part of the Dudley Co-Op's Film and Drama program, said that Fennessy is well qualified to talk about casting, a very important aspect of filmmaking.
Weiss started the Dudley Film and Drama program last year when she recognized that graduate students needed an outlet on campus to learn about filmmaking.
Now more than 200 students and community members attend the program's events, which include many film and theater productions as well as guest speeches.
Additional information about the program can be found on the program's website at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/
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