It will be held for the third consecutive year at Time Warner Center in New York\u00a0 on Saturday, October 29. The conference will present a pair of in-depth discussions, \u201cTriple Threat: Conversation with Tina Fey\u201d and \u201cDying is Easy. Comedy is Hard.\u201d with Chris Rock and Red Hour Films\u2019 Stuart Cornfeld.<\/p>\n
Last year\u2019s Produced By: New York<\/em> attracted influential storytellers ,including Michael Moore, Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, Effie Brown, Barbara Hall, John Hoffman, Navid Khonsari, Robert & Michelle King, Michael London, Tom McCarthy, Lydia Dean Pilcher, Peter Saraf, Darren Star, and Christine Vachon, among many others.<\/p>\n Additional speakers for this year\u2019s PBNY will be announced in the coming months.<\/p>\n \u201cTina Fey and Chris Rock are each living proof that you can be an excellent producer while being the funniest person in the room,\u201d said PGA Presidents Lori McCreary and Gary Lucchesi. \u201cThe PGA is thrilled to welcome two of the city\u2019s most practiced and proven artists to Produced By: New York.\u00a0\u00a0 We are looking forward to each speaker\u2019s unique insight into their careers as actors, writers, storytellers and the path which led to them becoming producers.\u201d<\/p>\n Reaching across film, television and new media, the Produced By Conference is an educational forum conducted by acclaimed producers, including numerous Oscar\u00ae and Emmy\u00ae Award winners, as well as the next generation of creative entrepreneurs. Produced By is held through the Producers Guild of America\u2019s charitable entity, the PGA Foundation, as it epitomizes the Foundation\u2019s core mission to educate those who work in the producing profession. Follow Produced By on Facebook and Twitter at www.facebook.com\/producedbyconference and www.twitter.com\/Produced_By or #Produced_By.<\/p>\n HBO and Time Warner are Hosting Sponsors of the Conference and Discovery Communications is a Supporting Sponsor. Other sponsors to date include: Branded Entertainment Network (BEN), CAPS, Cinecitt\u00e0 Studios, The City of New York Mayor\u2019s Office of Media & Entertainment, Entertainment Partners, Film US Virgin Islands, Indiepay, The Molecule, Panasonic, Post New York Alliance, Produce Iowa and VER.<\/p>\n PBNY is chaired by PGA members Bruce Cohen, Dana Kuznetzkoff, and Debbie Myers. Diane Salerno of Six Degrees Global is Sponsorship Director, Laura Danford Mandel of LDM PR serves as Programming Director, and Liz Hart of Liz Hart Events & Design is the conference\u2019s Supervising Producer.<\/p>\n Registration and pricing information for PBNY 2016 can be found at ProducedByConference.com\/NY2016. Early bird registration at a discounted rate is available now and ends October 1.<\/p>\n For more information about the PGA\u2019s Produced By: New York conference, please visit:<\/p>\n ProducedByConference.com\/NY2016
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