The Paley Center for Media Announces

PaleyFest: Fall 2010 TV Preview Parties

Public Previews of New 2010 Television Shows in Los Angeles September 9 – 15, 2010 Will Offer Fans a First Look at New Network Fall Series and Stars

For the sixth consecutive year, The Paley Center for Media, along with its media partner TV Guide Magazine, will host the PaleyFest: Fall TV Preview Parties, a week-long series of free public screenings, parties, and panels in Los Angeles at its Beverly Hills location. Offering premiere screenings of the hottest new shows of the fall season prior to their broadcast premieres, this year’s roster includes No Ordinary Family (ABC), The Defenders (CBS), Nikita (The CW), Running Wilde (Fox), and The Event (NBC). Each preview party event will be devoted to a single broadcast network. The evening will begin with an introductory Q&A session with several members of cast and creative team of participating shows followed by multiple premiere screenings in their entirety. Screenings and parties are free including food and drinks with seats available on a first-come, first-served basis. 

The PaleyFest: Fall TV Preview Parties schedule in Los Angeles is as follows —please note that events/participants are subject to change:      

The PaleyFest: Fall TV Preview Parties begin at 6:00 p.m. and continue throughout the evening with the Q&A’s beginning at 7:00 p.m. and screenings to follow (except for FOX on Monday, September 13 – the Q&A will start at 6:00 p.m.). Screenings are held in multiple viewing areas including the John H. Mitchell Theater, the Paley Center rooftop lounge, and Bell Gallery lounge. In Los Angeles, Paley Center members and the general public can RSVP at paleycenter.org.

Thursday, September 9        NBC   Outsourced, The Event, Chase, Undercovers

Friday, September 10           CBS   The Defenders, Mike & Molly, $#*! My Dad Says

Monday, September 13       FOX    Lone Star, Running Wilde, Raising Hope

                                                              Q&A starts at 6:00 p.m.         

Tuesday, September 14        ABC   No Ordinary Family, Better with You, My Generation

Bonus: Season Premiere of The Middle

Wednesday, September 15   The CW         Nikita, Hellcats

                                                        Bonus: Premiere Screening of a CW Returning Favorite

The Paley Center for Media Announces Call for Entries for

PALEYDOCFEST2010 Documentary Pitch Workshop

The PALEYDOCFEST2010 Pitch Workshop in association with SnagFilms will be held on October 16, 2010, in New York

The Paley Center for Media today announced a call for entries for its celebrated Art of the Documentary Pitch Workshop at PALEYDOCFEST2010, which will be held at the Paley Center in New York on Saturday, October 16, 2010 at 2pm. In this workshop/competition—now in its seventh year—a panel of documentary executives and producers discuss the process of developing a documentary and will hear and evaluate pitches from five preselected up-and-coming filmmakers who are hoping to sell either a nonfiction concept or a documentary work-in-progress. The winner of the pitch competition in October will receive a $5,000 grant, sponsored by SnagFilms, to be used towards the completion of their project.

Confirmed panelists at the workshop include: Andrew Mer, VP Content Partnerships, SnagFilms; Susan Werbe, Exeuctive Producer, HISTORY; Lauren Lazin, Filmmaker and Executive Producer, MTV Networks;  Diana Holtzberg, Vice President - USA Operations Acquisitions, Project Development, Sales, Films Transit International; Simon Kilmurry, Executive Director, POV; and Molly Thompson, Programming Director, A&E IndieFilms.

This call for entries is to be selected as one of the five filmmakers who will participate in the workshop in October.

Complete submission guidelines and entry forms can be found at http://paleycenter.org/pitch2010  or filmmakers can submit electronically through Withoutabox, a free online resource that helps filmmakers connect with film festivals, at http://www.withoutabox.com/login/8326.

The deadline for entries:

Regular deadline: Aug. 17, 2010 ($25 / $20 for Withoutabox members)

Late deadline: Sept. 7, 2010 ($30 / $25 for Withoutabox members)

Withoutabox extended deadline: Sept. 14, 2010 ($45 / $30 for Withoutabox members)

Past finalists include: Garbage Dreams directed by Mai Iskander; Prodigal Sons by Kimberly Reed; Whatever it Takes by Christopher Wong; Hi Tech Low Life by Stephen Maing; and Circo by Aaron Schock, our 2008 winner, which premiered at Silverdocs in June.

The Art of the Documentary Pitch Workshop is part of PALEYDOCFEST, the Paley Center’s annual Festival celebrating the documentary—featuring premieres, works-in-progress, classic documentaries, the pitch workshop and special events—which will take place this October. Further details, including a complete line-up of the Festival, will be announced at a later date. Visit www.paleycenter.org  for updates.

For the third year, the Paley Center and SnagFilms will use their unique collaboration between a leading cultural media institution and an Internet start-up to help documentary producers break down the barriers to reach fresh audiences for their films. Through a shared passion for expanding access to documentaries, the Paley Center, an important convener of the documentary film community, and SnagFilms, a groundbreaking Internet documentary distribution platform, continue to work together to help filmmakers discover alternative opportunities for getting their creative works in front of an expanded audience around the world, while in the process, helping them generate new financial resources.

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For the daily screening schedule, please visit http://www.paleycenter.org/visit-daily-schedule.

Explore Africa Los Angeles!
August 4-September 12, 2010 Wednesdays – Sundays at 3:00PM: Thanks to the recent World Cup, all eyes were focused on Africa -- a fascinating, multifaceted continent whose wonders remain a mystery to many. Continuing the African celebration, the Paley Center presents programs from its collection that offer a wide spectrum view of the continent’s people, culture, wildlife, and visual splendor. Ranging from a sci-fi tale of the future to a children’s series that brings animals face-to-face with a curious little boy to documentaries that take us into Botswana, Rwanda, and Kenya, each and every program is a fulfilling experience that tells us a little bit more about one of the most amazing places on earth.

Celebrating Ray Bradbury
August 28, 2010 at 1:00PM: Los Angeles commemorates Ray Bradbury’s 90th birthday this month with a series of events throughout the city. The Paley Center will be showcasing one day of screenings from our collection from which Mr. Bradbury has chosen three of his favorite televised adaptations of his work:
1:00PM The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Banshee (1986)
2:00PM American Playhouse: Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby is a Friend of Mine (1982)
3:00PM The Electric Grandmother (1982)

Who’s Cooking @the Paley Center?
September 1-8, 2010 at 12:30PM: The Paley Center joins The Taste of Beverly Hills Wine & Food Festival (September 2-5) celebrating all things epicurean by showcasing famous TV chefs and cooking shows from our collection including Julia Child, Gordon Ramsay, Emeril Lagasse, Alice Waters, and hometown favorites Two Hot Tamales, Giada de Laurentiis, and Cat Cora (Santa Barbara).

90210 Day
September 2, 2010 (9.02.10) at 12:30PM: Celebrate 9.02.10 with episodes from the original series and from the current incarnation. Watch PaleyFest panels with stars from both series.

Bell Family Gallery Exhibit:

AFRICA CELEBRATES! Images from the FIFA World Cup™ Trophy Tour by Coca-Cola

Through September 12: Fans will see a unique side of the World Cup in this extraordinary photo exhibition, which follows the journey of the FIFA World Cup™ Trophy across the African continent, capturing the love and passion of its diverse people for football (soccer). The images translate how the world’s greatest sporting event promotes happiness, unity, and peace while building bridges around the world through the communal interaction and development of sport. From a broader angle, Africa Celebrates! portrays the positive heart and soul of a continent often associated with its challenges. The selected images in exhibition in Los Angeles represent the journey of the artist/photographer Joseph Peter as he accompanies the FIFA World Cup™ Trophy through fifty African nations in seventy-five days during the fall of 2009.

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About The Paley Center for Media

In a world where media is all-pervasive and increasingly influential, The Paley Center for Media continues to collect, preserve, and make available to the public a top-quality collection of radio and television programs. The Paley Center also strengthens its work as a center where media
executives, cultural thought leaders, and the public convene to discuss the challenges and opportunities of a rapidly evolving landscape of media technologies and businesses. Events and activities at the New York and Los Angeles locations leverage the collection, offering informative
and entertaining evenings with casts and creative teams of current popular series, premieres of new and innovative work, and panel discussions that focus on media as a lens through which we see ourselves and the rest of the world.
Going forward, the Paley Center will offer more of these discussions to the public through their redesigned website and through content partnerships with prominent Internet portals and broadband companies, including Yahoo! and Comcast, who will offer the content on their websites as well. Users will be able to access Paley Center events, such as cast discussions with some of the most recognized award-winning shows in contemporary television including 24, CSI, The Daily Show, Desperate Housewives, Entourage, Family Guy, Grey’s Anatomy, House, Law & Order, Lost, Sex and the City, South Park, and Weeds.

The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television & Radio), 465 N. Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills.

Phone: 310.786.109.

Website: www.paleycenter.org 

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