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Docu-Jam 2020: Youth Documentary Showcase
Call for Entries—Submission Deadline: April 17, 2020
We seek outstanding documentaries produced by young people across the country. Selected documentaries will be screened at the Paley Center in New York City on October 24, 2020 and will become part of the Paley Center’s permanent collection.
Education Department
The Paley Center's Education Department uses the Collection in the Paley Archive in partnership with schools and other educational institutions to explore important themes and issues that have shaped contemporary history, as well as to develop and refine our audience's critical thinking and viewing skills.
Onsite Classes
Using programs from the collection as a means of illustration and investigation, Paley Center Educators lead sessions on a wide range of subjects such as advertising, the documentary form, and the Civil Rights movement.
Videoconferencing
The Paley Center offers classes via videoconferencing on a wide variety of topics that have been developed and are conducted by the Paley Center's education staff.
Workshops For Educators
The Paley Center offers professional training workshops for educators as part of its role as a community resource and also to help develop an informed audience.
Teen Transmitters
Teen Transmitters at Paley is a 100-hour summer internship for rising 11th and 12th grade students who attend New York City public high schools.
Robert M. Batscha University Series Presented by Dick Wolf
This series explores issues and the creative process behind fiction and nonfiction programming as well as new media and is available to college students and professors across the country on demand.
Re-creating Radio Workshops
Read more about the fun and exciting Re-Creating Radio workshops for the whole family at the Paley Center in New York.
Contact Us
General Inquiries
212.621.6600
GENERAL INQUIRIES
Videoconferencing
212.621.6600
VIDEOCONFERENCING
Special Thanks
Funding for the Education Program has been generously provided by an endowment from:
- William Randolph Hearst Foundation
- Leo J. Hindery, Jr.
For additional support, the Paley Center wishes to thank:
- The JMCMRJ Foundation
- Dick Wolf
- Joan Ganz Cooney
- Pinkerton Foundation
- Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation
- Con Edison
- Select Equity Group Foundation
- Michael Tuch Foundation
- The Laura B. Vogler Foundation, Inc.
- William E. Weiss Foundation
The Education Program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.