1. In February 2017, Penna began production of his directorial debut film, Arctic.
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In June 2019, Joe Penna began shooting on the sci-fi movie Stowaway starring Anna Kendrick and Toni Collette.
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In December 2022, Joe Penna was tapped to produce Anna Kendrick's directorial debut Woman of the Hour.
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On September 11,2005, Joe Penna launched a second YouTube channel, where he uploads his making-of videos and vlogs.
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In 2007, Joe Penna was one of the first YouTube channels to receive mainstream media coverage, including attention from DC Fox News, after his video The Puzzle was featured on the front page of YouTube.
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In 2009, Joe Penna was again seen on the front page of YouTube with his video Guitar: Impossible, which has been covered by De Wereld Draait Door, the highest-rated primetime show in the Netherlands.
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On December 6,2009, Joe Penna was featured on FM4, an Austrian national radio station.
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Joe Penna was a finalist in the "Oreo Global Moments" video competition.
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In 2009, Joe Penna directed a commercial starring Rhett and Link titled T-Shirt War.
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In June 2010, Joe Penna was highlighted by CNN Money on their Best Jobs series.
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In 2012, Joe Penna co-wrote and directed an original interactive thriller series titled Meridian starring Orlando Jones and Rick Overton in conjunction with Fourth Wall Studios.
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In May 2023, Joe Penna was part of a team that authored a paper on text-to-image generation which introduced PickScore, a scoring function showing superior performance in predicting human preferences.