Panel: Do Female Media Producers Have a Special Responsibility as Women?

June 17 Saturday 12:30-1:45

Location

Museum Of The City Of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St

Hosted by

with Kathy Bates, Academy Award-Winning Actor, Lisa Cortes, Monster's Ball Producer, Robyn Goodman, Film & Theater Producer, Pat Mitchell, Museum of TV & Radio, Debra Zimmerman, Women Make Movies, Stephanie Walters Williams, HBO Young Filmmaker's Lab, Candida Royalle, Feminist Erotica Producer, Jamye Waxman, Playgirl Magazine, Lillian LaSalle, LaSalle-Holland Talent Management

Details

Eve Ensler will introduce the Women and Media Responsibility Panel. The panel will discuss important issues impacting women in film making such as whether women working in media are mandated to tell certain stories, or whether art should really be just about art. Panel participants include Academy-Award Winning actress Kathy Bates, Monster's Ballproducer Lisa Cortes of Lee Daniels Entertainment, President and CEO of the Museum of Television & Radio Pat Mitchell (formerly PBS President & CEO), Executive Director of Women Make Movies Debra Zimmerman, Program Director of HBO's Young Filmmaker's Lab Stephanie Walters-Williams, Co-founder of Feminists for Free Expression & women's erotica pioneer Candida Royalle, Playgirl Magazine writer Jamye Waxman, and LaSalle-Holland Managment Production principal Lillian LaSalle. Abiola Abrams, an emerging filmmaker who has hosted shows for HBO & NBC will moderate the discussion and Prudence Heyert, an actress who recently starred in M. Night Shyamalan's filmic Oscar night commercial, will field audience questions.

Ticket Info

http://www.mcny.org/public_programs/all/393.html General Admission. Say "I'm a Neighbor" if you need them to waive admission.

Directions

Museum Of The City Of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St New York, NY 10029 By bus: M1, M3, M4 or M106 to 104th Street, M2 to 101st Street. By subway: #6 Lexington Avenue train to 103rd Street, walk three blocks west, or #2 or #3 train to Central Park North (110th Street), walk one block east to Fifth Avenue, then south to 103rd Street. Ramp access is available at the 104th Street entrance.