Downtown Community Television Center

Downtown Community Television will produce On the Outside: The Year After Prison, a multimedia, cross-platform documentary project directed by Matthew O’Neill that begins as fifteen people from diverse backgrounds are released from prison in Connecticut. The project combines filming by the ex-offenders of themselves with professional documentary storytelling, incorporating in-depth news coverage and contextual analysis. The project will enable viewers to accompany just-released inmates as they restart their lives, and, through their experiences, to better understand the human and social policy consequences of incarceration.

To support a webcasting component of media training programs serving high school students, homeless youth, and physically and mentally disabled individuals.

To support the Alliance TV Program, which provides media training to low-income and minority youth.

In support of general operations.

In support of general operations of the center, which trains low-income and minority people in television production, provides services for grassroots and independent producers, and produces documentaries and news coverage for U.S. and international broadcast (over three years).