PGA Announces DARREN ARONOFSKY & SCOTT FRANKLIN as Featured Speakers

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) is pleased to announce that director/writer/producer Darren Aronofsky and producer Scott Franklin, principals of the production company Protozoa Pictures (Noah, Black Swan, The Wrestler), have been added as featured speakers at the inaugural Produced By: New York (PBNY) conference, taking place Saturday, October 25, 2014 at the Time Warner Center in NYC. PGA President Gary Lucchesi (Primal Fear; Million Dollar Baby; LINCOLN Lawyer) will lead the discussion.

PBNY also added Jon Kilik (The Hunger Games franchise, Foxcatcher, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) to its roster of panelists which includes previously announced speakers such as Jake Gyllenhaal, James Schamus, Harvey Weinstein, Donna Gigliotti,Mark Gordon, Hawk Koch, Jenni Konner, Lydia Dean Pilcher, Peter Saraf, Morgan Spurlock and Terence Winter, among many others.

Produced By: New York will feature 12 full conference sessions and panel discussions, as well as numerous mentoring roundtables and networking opportunities designed to address key industry topics and discuss the evolving world of producing. The full program is listed below:

Ø Conversation With: Darren Aronofsky and Scott Franklin

Ø Conversation With: Jake Gyllenhaal

Ø Conversation With: James Schamus

Ø Conversation With: Harvey Weinstein

Ø Window Shopping: Customizing Financial Models in the Era of Hybrid Distribution

Ø C Is for Content: Technology and Storytelling in Kids' Media

Ø Greenlight Secrets Revealed: 10 Questions You Always Wanted to Ask a Network Head

Ø The Biggest Business in Entertainment - Producing for Video Games!

Ø The Ms. Factor: The Power of Female-Driven Content

Ø Producing the News (On Every Platform)

Ø Tax Credit Financing - The New Essential Element

*The above speakers and/or session topics are subject to change.

For a full list of speakers and to register for Produced By: New York, please visit www.producedbyconference.com.