Katrina Media Fellowships
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Downtown Community Television Center
2006 Film To enable young video artists from New York City to travel to New Orleans to collaborate with local teen reporters on short documentary pieces about displaced teens, environmental safety, race, and the effects of the hurricane on the New Orleans Juvenile Justice System. Community screenings and dialogues will be organized in New York and New Orleans in conjunction with local non-profit partners. Founded in 1972, DCTV has fostered a diverse and inclusive media arts community for over 30 years. DCTV is the most honored independent nonprofit media center in the nation. Its productions, reaching over 100 million viewers each year, have received 13 national Emmy Awards, 3 duPont-Columbia Awards, and every other major award in the television field. DCTV complements its own artistic achievements by working to extend the tools of television and electronic media production to a broader, more diverse set of artists. Toward this end, over the past 32 years DCTV has taught over 50,000 students, most of them members of low-income and minority communities, the essentials of television production. DCTV offers over 150 free or low-cost video and electronic media training workshops to 2,000 students a year. New York, New York | |
