Seth Meyers, Nick Kroll, David Cross and More to Appear at Paley Center, Nov 2013

Dirty Wars

Monday, November 4, 2013
6:30 pm ET
New York

IN PERSON

Jeremy Scahill, Journalist
Richard Rowley, Director
Moderator: Karen Greenberg, Director of Center on National Security, Fordham Law School
Introduced by Glenn Greenwald, Journalist (Via Skype)

One of the most acclaimed documentaries of this year, Dirty Wars investigates covert wars around the world Being fought by the US military. Journalist Jeremy Scahill and director Richard Rowley track down clues about the War on Terror and the use of drones in secretive battles. Dirty Wars works remarkably on many levels, from the journalistic to the cinematic, in exposing secrets about undeclared military attacks and the secretive mission of the Joint Special Operations Command. Few documentaries have illuminated the journalistic process, how to find patterns in facts despite governmental obfuscation, while exposing dark areas of foreign policy that have not been uncovered by the mainstream press. Dirty Wars has been praised as vital and gripping, distinguished by its "tough investigative tone and surprisingly stylish photography" and is considered by many the most provocative documentary of the year.

Much information has been disseminated since the initial release of Dirty Wars, especially the revelations about the National Security Agency by Edward Snowden. Scahill, Rowley, and other experts will examine what we have recently learned about drones and targeted killing, as well as which wars need further investigation.

NEW YORK COMEDY FESTIVAL @ PALEY CENTER

An Evening with David Cross

Friday, November 8, 2013
6:30 pm ET
New York

IN PERSON

David Cross

Emmy Award-winning comedian David Cross (along with partner Bob Odenkirk) helmed perhaps the definitive "alternative comedy" project with the groundbreaking, vastly influential Mr. Show with Bob and David, and has continued as a major comic force with inspired stand-up, brilliant acting turns in series including Arrested Development(another strong contender for Most Important Comedy Show Ever), and his excruciatingly hilarious series The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. The Paley Center and the New York Comedy Festival welcome Cross to discuss his career, his creative process and thoughts on comedy, and life as a never-nude.

In association with The New York Comedy Festival

NEW YORK COMEDY FESTIVAL at PALEY CENTER

Oh Hello: Kroll Show

Saturday, November 9, 2013
4:00 pm ET
New York

IN PERSON

Nick Kroll
John Levenstein
Jonathan Krisel
Moderator: Seth Meyers

Chameleonic comic actor Nick Kroll's Kroll Show, airing on Comedy Central, is a delightfully savage takedown of contemporary television and celebrity culture, mounting pitch-perfect parodies of brainless reality programming and razor-sharp sketches populated by a gallery of lovingly rendered grotesqueries, including Bobby Bottleservice and Dr. Armand...characters who are as painfully funny as they are disturbingly familiar in our dark lapsarian age.

The Paley Center for Media and the New York Comedy Festival welcome Kroll Show executive producers and writers Kroll, John Levenstein, and Jonathan Krisel (who also directs the episodes) to discuss the production of the technically dazzling parodies, the process of breathing life into such tragic souls as Ref Jeff, and the perils of ice dating.

Join us for the panel discussion plus the premiere of two season-two episodes.

This Changes Everything: James Ellroy and Thomas Mallon on the Assassination of JFK

Thursday, November 14, 2013
7:00 pm ET
New York

IN PERSON

James Ellroy, L.A. Confidential; American Tabloid
Thomas Mallon, Henry and Clara; Mrs. Paine's Garage

James Ellroy, modern master of historically inflected crime fiction and author of L.A. Confidential and American Tabloid, and Thomas Mallon, novelist and essayist, author of Henry and Clara and Mrs. Paine's Garage, will explore the continuing fascination the assassination of President John F. Kennedy exerts on popular narrative, the significance of the Kennedy assassination to the American experience, and the ways in which the thematic richness of the event has reverberated through our culture in the subsequent decades.

Funding for this event is provided by The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation.

Paley DocPitch Competition

Saturday, November 16, 2013
2:00 pm ET
New York

IN PERSON

Diana Holtzberg, Acquisitions & Project Development Director, USA, Films Transit International
Lauren Lazin, Filmmaker and Executive Producer, MTV
Molly Thompson, Vice President, A&E IndieFilms
Susan Werbe, Executive Producer, Programming, History
Cynthia Lopez, Executive Vice President/Coexecutive Producer, POV

How do you sell a documentary? Watch and learn as five preselected up-and-coming nonfiction filmmakers pitch their ideas before a live audience and a group of eminent documentarians. The panel of experts will evaluate the proposals for uniqueness and viability and will offer the emerging filmmaker helpful feedback. The winner will be awarded a $5,000 grant from A&E IndieFilms to be used toward the completion of the pitched film. Past winners of this contest, now in its ninth year, include the acclaimed films Circo, Charge, and Herman's House (previously The House that Herman Built).