Alisha Lopez, a student at the High School of Enterprise, Business and Technology, has been part of our ongoing roundtable discussion sessions about gun violence. She has been taking notes as a journalist and helping to prepare blog entries about these discussions for our website. Here she re-caps...
We've been having conversations with teenagers lately about community responsibility, and whether or not it's a moral obligation of all human beings to care for one another. The answer we hear is always 'yes', but the reality of life in their communities doesn't always reflect this greater moral...
What does it mean to be a "responsible" gun owner? What is a responsible use of guns? Could civilization exist without such weapons, or do we need them to protect ourselves? If so, who are we protecting ourselves from? Finally, what types of legislation will help reduce gun violence if guns should...
Today we had a Thanksgiving feast with the staff at DCTV. There were at least 30 of us who brought food to share, and who sat around a long table trading stories of what we are thankful for this season. All of us are thankful for the community here at DCTV, for the work we do and for our rather,...
Last night, we co-hosted a terrific short film screening in Crown Heights, Brooklyn at LaunchPad. Our partners at Crown Heights Community Mediation Center and the great Kings County Cinema Society helped arrange this event for the Crown Heights community. It was standing room only at the Franklin...
Join us on Thursday, November 18th at LaunchPad, a terrific new arts space in Crown Heights, for a night of films and discussion about gun violence in the neighborhood. We are delighted to work with our partners at Crown Heights Community Mediation Center and Kings County Cinema Society to present...
Save Our Streets Crown Heights, a program through our partners at Crown Heights Community Mediation Center, organizes a shooting response for every single shooting they learn about in the 77th Precinct. During a shooting response, they make the statement that these shootings and killings are...
On Thursday, November 11th, DCTV premieres its newest HBO documentary, "Wartorn: 1861-2010". This critical, compassionate film examines PTSD in war veterans throughout history, and is fittingly premiering on Veteran's Day 2010. Directors Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill, as well as their collaborator...
This week, Beyond Bullets was about town. Starting with a screening of Oxfam's Shooting Poverty competition at the UN and ending with another screening of Shooting Poverty at DCTV last night, we had the pleasure of meeting people from around the world who are working on armed violence prevention...
Earlier this year, aid agency Oxfam launched the Shooting Poverty competition, created to expose the true cost and impact of the arms trade and armed violence on poor communities around the world. More than 60 young directors from 9 countries submitted their documentary film ideas. A panel of...
