Downtown Community Television Center

"DCTV" redirects here. For digital cable television, see digital cable.
DCTV Firehouse Building.

The Downtown Community Television Center or DCTV is a community media center located in Manhattan's Civic Center on Lafayette Street. It was founded in 1972 by documentary film director Jon Alpert and his wife, Keiko Tsuno.

Mission

According to their Web site,[1] DCTV "introduc[es] members of the community to the basics of electronic media through hundreds of free or low-cost production courses and access to broadcast-quality production equipment." DCTV conducts classes enabling people from less privileged backgrounds to learn to create video productions and operates studios available to them for low cost. These programs are funded in part by earnings from DCTV's own documentary films which have won 16 national Emmy awards and many other honors.

Facilities

DCTV is based in a landmark firehouse at 87 Lafayette Street in Manhattan, constructed in 1895 and purchased by DCTV in the 1980s.[2]

The building was originally occupied by Firehouse, Engine Company 31

Programs

Pro-TV (Professional Youth Media Training) is a program designed to train students from New York City's underprivileged communities in media arts, using state-of-the-art equipment.

Films

DCTV's productions Include:

References

  1. DCTV's Mission Statement and History – Downtown Community Television
  2. Lower Manhattan : News | Historic Downtown Firehouse Gets Wired by DCTV
  3. Third Avenue, DCTV shopping cart
  4. Invisible Citizens: Japanese Americans, DCTV shopping cart
  5. Junkie Junior, DCTV shopping cart
  6. The Philippines, DCTV shopping cart
  7. Hard Metals Disease, DCTV shopping cart
  8. Hunger in the Suburbs, DCTV shopping cart
  9. One Year in a Life of Crime, DCTV shopping cart
  10. Rape: Cries from the Heartland, DCTV shopping cart
  11. The Story of Vinh, DCTV shopping cart
  12. Chiapas: The Fight for Land and Liberty, DCTV shopping cart
  13. Snakeheads, DCTV Shopping Cart
  14. High on Crack Street, DCTV shopping cart
  15. Lock Up: The Prisoners of Riker's Island, DCTV shopping cart
  16. A Cinderella Season, DCTV shopping cart
  17. A Cinderella Season, DCTV official website
  18. Campaign Confidential, DCTV shopping cart
  19. Papa, DCTV shopping cart
  20. Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero, DCTV shopping cart
  21. Bridge to Baghdad I, DCTV shopping cart
  22. Bridge to Baghdad II, DCTV shopping cart
  23. Coca and the Congressman, DCTV shopping cart
  24. Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story, DCTV shopping cart
  25. Latin Kings, DCTV official website
  26. Dope Sick Love, DCTV shopping cart
  27. Dope Sick Love, DCTV official website
  28. Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story – Pro-TV / DCTV Production – Award-winning Youth Documentary Program
  29. Bullets in the Hood, DCTV official website
  30. The Last Cowboy, DCTV shopping cart
  31. The Last Cowboy, DCTV official site
  32. Off to War (1–10) The Complete Box Set, DCTV shopping cart
  33. Off to War, DCTV official website
  34. Siberian Adoption Story, DCTV shopping cart
  35. Venezuela: Revolution in progress – A DCTV & Discovery-Times Production
  36. Venezuela, DCTV official website
  37. Baghdad ER
  38. Baghdad ER, DCTV official website
  39. India Journal, DCTV shopping cart
  40. The Russians are Coming, DCTV shopping cart
  41. The Russians are Coming!!!, DCTV official website
  42. A Woman Among Boys, DCTV Shopping Cart
  43. http://www.dctvny.org/documentaries/chinas-unnatural-disaster
  44. http://www.dctvny.org/about/press/television-review-wartorn-1861-2010

External links

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