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miles

One in a series of youth-produced, anti–gun violence PSAs made by students in DCTV's PRO-TV Program.

stephanie

Thank you to DCTV Presents and LoMAL for a successful screening and panel discussion yesterday! Our panelists, Richard Aborn, Shaina Harrison, Maria Hinojosa and Clarivel Ruiz, tackled some very complex topics, and they were all deeply knowledgable about the issues. There were even a few disagreements, which is always the sign of a good conversation.

stephanie

We are thrilled to work with DCTV Presents to screen BeyondBullets.org short videos and Ivana Todorovic's superb short film, A Harlem Mother at our home base, Downtown Community Television Center. After months of successful screenings at schools and community centers throughout NYC, now it's time to share this work with our DCTV community. The screening will be part of LoMAL's Fall Downtown series.

tahnee

July 24th, 2010 is The National Day of Action to Silence The Violence. Our partner and the subject of one of our videos, the great violence prevention youth organization United Playaz of Banana Kelly High School, has teamed up with Urban Peace Movement and 106 KMEL to create a truly National event! The Bronx Chapter of United Playaz, founded by the wonderful Amelia...

stephanie

The New York Post featured a story about Beyond Bullets and our recent visit to Banana Kelly High School in the Bronx. Check it out at New York Post

stephanie

This week, Beyond Bullets has been in attendance at the 4th Biennial Meeting of States on Small Arms and Light Weapons, which is taking place at the United Nations. We've attended meetings on gender mainstreaming in the prevention of small arms trafficking, the role of youth in the prevention and combating of weapons trafficking, and the presentation of the Small Arms Survey Yearbook 2010, which is an annual, comprehensive publication about small...

leanna

LIFE Camp is a effective intervention program that teaches at-risk youth in Queens to become strong leaders and responsible entrepreneurs. If it weren't for this program, many of the members believe they would be dead or in jail.

Directed by: Hena Ashraf

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leanna

Editor’s note: In mid-May PopTech held a salon workshop to highlight Ceasefire’s innovative efforts to “intercept” gun violence and to discuss how new information technologies might help broaden the impact of these initiatives in various communities.

To continue our exploration, PopTech recently caught up with Stephanie Skaff, the project director of the Downtown Community Television Center initiative called Beyond Bullets. The project is using youth-produced media – and media...

miles

Jessie Auritt produced the documentary "The Price of Education", while a student at Tufts University. She has worked for the Discovery Network, Vault.com, IFC.com, and The New York Daily News.

Hemamset Angaza graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in Film Production. Hemamset is currently directing "In Our Heads", a feature-length documentary on black women, hair and identity. He has also directed a short documentary about art therapy.

jesse

New York, NY- 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...

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