Get Cultured: DCTV
Not seeing Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe after work like me? Then head to Chinatown for the Downtown Community Television Center’s (DCTV) fall open house. Running tonight (9/19) from 6-9PM, the organization promises a sampling of new workshops on HD and digitial filmmaking, screenings of 2 indy flicks made with help from DCTV, the opportunity to play with a Panansonic HVX200 and (the icing on the cake) an open bar.
Now touted as the “premiere resource for the low-budget independent digital filmmaker”, DCTV began in 1972 with its first classes operating out of a mail truck. Since then, the non-profit media center has taught over 50,000 students from low-income communities the basics of electronic media through training workshops and access to quality production equipment. DCTV also often partners with indy docs to get their movie and message to the masses.
Meanwhile, working filmmakers enjoy DCTV’s equipment and editing suite rental, DVD authoring services and use of the Cyberstudio, 64x48’ space that can beam productions simulataneously to both half a million TV sets on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network and over the internet.
Tonight, get inspired by all that's available to DIYers, and then get to work.
For more info on the DCTV open house, go here.
For more info on DCTV’s many workshops, go here.
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