DCTV’s New York City Tour has concluded, visiting seven high schools in five days. The tour was a resounding success, reaching hundreds of students in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx. Over the past week, students have been actively engaging with DCTV presenters, responding to films and powerful stories and offering insight into the causes of and solutions to gun violence. Beyond Bullets visited Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Hunts Point, Harlem and the Lower East Side, speaking to middle- and high-school students, most of whom have felt a direct impact of gun violence. When asked if they know someone who has been killed by a gun, almost every hand in the room went up. In a classroom in Harlem, a quarter answered that they have lost someone this year.
DCTV is proud to announce the launch of BeyondBullets.org, a website aimed to use the power of media to quell America’s gun violence epidemic.
DCTV’s Beyond Bullets, a new media campaign to quell America's gun violence epidemic, is nearing launch and has stories to tell that are both heartbreaking and empowering. DCTV has hired six early-career video journalists to embed in high-crime communities in all five boroughs. Over the next eight months, they and an army of other young media-makers will produce an ongoing series of reports exploring the tragedy of gun violence and its solutions. Every three hours, a child is shot and killed on the streets of America. Media is partially responsible, and DCTV believes it can be part of the solution. Using video, social media and grassroots organizing, Beyond Bullets will engage communities in dialogue to discover roots and solutions to America’s gun violence epidemic.
Downtown Community Television Center is honored to announce that Bullets in the Hood: a Bed-Stuy Story has won a New York Emmy Award for Excellence in Teen Programming. Directed by Terence Fischer and Daniel Howard, former students of DCTV’s PRO-TV youth program, Bullets is a documentary about the shooting of one of the filmmakers’ best friend by a NYPD officer in 2004, and was the only nominee of the five finalists in the “teen programming” category directed by youth filmmakers. This NY Emmy Award is a groundbreaking achievement and DCTV is grateful for this recognition of the dedication and triumph of the young artists behind the film.
Downtown Community Television Center is honored to announce the nomination of Bullets in the Hood: a Bed-Stuy Story for a New York Emmy Award. Bullets, a documentary about the shooting of one of the filmmakers’ best friend by a NYPD officer in 2004, is contending in the “Teen Programming,” category, but is the only nominee produced by teenagers themselves. This is a groundbreaking achievement, and DCTV is grateful for the recognition of the dedication and triumph of the young artists behind the film.
