Paley Center Announces May Events And Appearances

Drawing upon its curators, collection, and relationships with the media community, The Paley Center for Media examines the intersections between media and society.

Women's Voices from the Muslim World
Monday, May 9, 2011
6:30 pm ET
New York
IN PERSON
Qanta Ahmed, Associate Professor of Medicine, SUNY-Stony Brook; Author, In the Land of Invisible Women
Maha Awad, International Television Host and Producer
Danielle Lurie, Filmmaker, In The Morning
Negar Mottahedeh, Associate Professor, Program in Literature Duke University - Reading Film Fiction
Catinca Tabacaru, Executive Director and General Council, Women's Voices Now
The Paley Center in partnership with Women's Voices Now and the Rubin Museum will examine how women in Muslim worlds are using media to illuminate their personal and cultural environments. The panelists will consider what happens to a previously closed society that now confronts the free-flowing information of the Internet, as well as how women are using all types of media to struggle for civil, economic, and political rights. The discussion will also focus on the recent uprisings in the Middle East and the role played by women using social media and the Internet. Before the discussion, several films from different genres will be screened to exemplify the diversity of these women's response.

Women's Voices from the Muslim World: A Short-Film Festival
FREE for Members
Included with admission for general public.
Women's Voices Now solicited films from women of all faiths living in Muslim-majority countries and Muslim women living as minorities around the world. Visit the Rubin Museum of Art for a day of Afghan films from Women's Voices Now and discussions with Masha Hamilton, Wazhmah Osman, and more: A Focus on Afghanistan, May 21.
Saturday and Sunday
May 14 and 15, 2011

Show and Sell: Jerry Della Femina on TV's Take on the Ad Game
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
6:30 pm ET
New York
IN PERSON
Jerry Della Femina
It is impossible to talk about television without talking about advertising-the medium was essentially invented to sell soap flakes-but how has the tube fared at depicting the elusive art of selling? Advertising legend Jerry Della Femina, one of the leading lights of the sixties "creative revolution" and a direct inspiration for the critically adored Madison Avenue chronicle Mad Men, will present and discuss a selection of clips from programs dramatizing the advertising game, from the broad hijinks of Bewitched to the more rarefied labors of the gang at Sterling Cooper. Shows about creative people in advertising supported by advertising made by creative people . . . we're through the looking glass, people. Please take off your shoes.

Held in conjunction with Creative Week New York, May 9 to May 15.

SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
6:00 pm ET
New York
IN PERSON
Mary Murphy, Filmmaker
Tom Brokaw, NBC News/Author, The Greatest Generation
James McBride, Author, The Color of Water
Adriana Trigiani, Author, Big Stone Gap
Book signing at 5:00 pm
Fifty years after winning a Pulitzer Prize (and fifty-one years after its publication), Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird remains one of America's most cherished novels-not just studied in schools across the country, but found in the private libraries of people of all ages, backgrounds, and occupations, with dog-eared pages to mark the many resonant passages that make the hair stand up on the back of your neck. Filmmaker Mary Murphy's documentary Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird explores the story behind the book and reflects on the significance of its enduring appeal, featuring interviews with Lee's sister, friends, and admirers, including Oprah Winfrey, Anna Quindlen, Roseanne Cash, Tom Brokaw, and Mary Badham, the actress who portrayed Scout in the 1962 film. Skipping an event this good would be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, wouldn't it?

NEW YORK PREMIERE
Burma Soldier
Thursday, May 26, 2011
6:30 pm ET
New York
IN PERSON
Annie Sundberg, Filmmaker
Ricki Stern, Filmmaker
Myra Dahgaypaw, Campaign Coordinator, U.S. Campaign for Burma
Myo Myint, Film Subject
Burma Soldier tells the harrowing and unforgettable saga of a former Burmese soldier who risks everything to become a pro-democracy activist. Through the courageous story of Myo Mint, we learn how the ruling army in Burma keeps its citizens living in terror, demolishing any sign of dissent. Directed by the team of Nic Dunlop, Annie Sundberg, and Ricki Stern, Burma Soldier reveals the transformation of an oppressor into a committed activist, protesting against the system that he used to represent. This documentary, which will be seen on HBO, is a centerpiece screening at this year's Full Frame Festival in North Carolina, where Stern and Sundberg will receive the 2011 Career Achievement Award. After the screening, the panel will discuss the possibility of peace in a country ruled by a brutal dictatorship.