The Paley Center for Media, with locations in New York and Los Angeles, leads the discussion about the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms for the professional community and media-interested public.
NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE
#WhileWeWatch
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
6:00 pm ET
New York
IN PERSON
Kevin Breslin, Director, Filmmaker
Alan Capper, President, The Foreign Press Association
Jesse LaGreca, Writer, The Daily Kos, Journalist
Priscilla Grim, Occupy Wall St Journal, Journalist
Tim Pool, TimCast.tv, Livestream Journalist
Moderator: Pete Fornatale, New York DJ and Author
6:00 pm Screening and Discussion; 7:30 pm Reception
The Occupy Wall Street movement has generated a whole new brand of interactive, participatory media, most notably livestreaming news from Zuccotti Park to the world. Kevin Breslin’s riveting documentary captures this media revolution at its conception, showing how cellphones affixed to laptops can create global social change. We witness the OWS media team taking on city government, big corporations, and police to get their vital message out. As director Breslin notes “Zuccotti Park was loud, dirty, wet, cold and exhilaratingly alive with passion and energy. Intelligence, imagination, information and raw motion ruled every second!” Breslin’s film is a transfixing testament to that insurgent spirit. Key members of the OWS media team will speak after the screening.
A limited number of free tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please reserve at publicprograms@paleycenter.org
Project Runway All Stars
January 19th at 6:30 pm
The Paley Center welcomes members of Project Runway All Stars’ cast and creative team to discuss the production of the new series, which reunites thirteen of Project Runway’s most memorable designers (where’s Andre?) to compete for bragging rights and the most fabulous prizes in PR history. A new judgment day has arrived as the designers must impress a whole new panel with host Angela Lindvall, judges Isaac Mizrahi and Georgina Chapman and mentor Joanna Coles. Please join us as we take a look behind-the-seams of the new show!
In Person:
Isaac Mizrahi, Judge
Georgina Chapman, Judge
Angela Lindvall, Host
Rob Bagshaw, Executive Producer
Austin Scarlett, Designer
Kenley Collins, Designer
Mondo Guerra, Designer
Kara Janx, Designer
Moderator: Joanna Coles, Mentor
THIS EVENT
Members: $15
General Public: $20
Portlandia
Saturday, January 21, 2012
1 pm
With Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein.
Co-presented with Geek Chic Daily.
The Paley Center and GeekChicNYC (http://www.geekchicnyc.com) welcome Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, the creators and stars of the IFC original comedy series Portlandia, to discuss their work on the program. A bracingly strange and irreverent look at the curious culture of Portland, Oregon—land of keen cyclists, unreconstructed hippies and new age pilgrims, eco warriors and rock stars and eccentrics of all stripes—Portlandia, now in its second season, has emerged as one of the freshest comedic offerings on television. Please come visit…and put a bird on it.
THIS EVENT
Members: $10
General Public: $15
Remembering Master Storyteller, Jean Shepherd
With Jerry Seinfeld and Keith Olbermann
Monday, January 23 at 6:30 pm
Marshall McLuhan hailed Jean Shepherd as the “first radio novelist,” but Shep was much more, notably a jazz soloist improvising irreverently on his life and times. Broadcasting on WOR from 1956-77, Shepherd enthralled late-night listeners on the East Coast his Scheherazade-like tales with tales, all recited with exquisite detail without a script. His intimate and hilarious remembrances were also adapted into stories for Playboy, shows for public television, and the iconic A Christmas Story. One master comedian who follows in his observational tradition, Jerry Seinfeld, will talk about how Shepherd influenced his work with Keith Olbermann. Friends and colleagues will also discuss how Shepherd practically invented talk radio.
THIS EVENT
Members: $25
General Public: $35
