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http://www.freepress.net/node/39058Precious Places, Public Platforms: Strategic Uses of Community TechnologySpeakers: DeeDee Halleck, Lauren-Glenn Davitian, Louis MassiahDate: Saturday, June 7th; 9:30am to 11:00amTrack: Journalism and Independent Mediavideo produced by Rob McCausland "Beyond the cineplex, corporatized airwaves, telecom monopolies and Internet spam, this panel will look at how activists are using public interest channels, screenings, podcasts, Internet exploration and homemade transmitters in a broad array of images and sounds that are not mass mediated but created by artists and gamers, collectives and bloggers who are resisting homogenous commercial culture."DeeDee Halleck, Independent filmmaker (http://www.freepress.net/node/39169)DeeDee Halleck is a media activist, the founder of Paper Tiger Television and co-founder of the Deep Dish Satellite Network (www.deepdishtv.org). She is Professor Emerita at the University of California, San Diego and the author of Hand Held Visions: The Impossible Possibilities of Community Media. Her films have been featured at the Venice Film Festival, Cannes, the London Film Festival and many other international venues. She is co-producing a series about international community media titled Waves of Change.Lauren-Glenn Davitian, Executive Director, CCTV Center for Media & Democracy (http://www.freepress.net/node/39160)Lauren-Glenn Davitian is the founder and executive director of CCTV's Center for Media & Democracy and is a long-time free speech veteran. Recently recognized by the Alliance for Community Media with the George Stoney Award for Humanistic Communications, Lauren-Glenn designs and develops the Center's programs and serves as a state and national advocate for public access media. In addition to her responsibilities at CCTV, she serves as chair of the ACM's Community Media Review Editorial Board and as a board member for NTEN.Louis Massiah, Scribe Media Center (http://www.freepress.net/node/39203)Louis Massiah is an independent documentary film maker whose films often explore historical and political subjects. His works include W.E.B. Du Bois -- A Biography in Four Voices (producer/director) and Louise Alone Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words (producer/director), an oral history portrait of the political activist and Harlem Renaissance cultural worker. Currently he is executive producer of Haytian Stories, exploring the history of the 200-year relationship between the United States and Haiti. Massiah is the founder and executive director of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, a media arts organization that provides low-cost workshops and equipment access to emerging video/filmmakers and community organizations. At Scribe, he has facilitated over 200 videotapes, including a variety of tapes documenting major issues and concerns facing urban communities, produced collaboratively with community members. A current project, the Precious Places Community History Project, is a citywide oral history portrait designed by Massiah that is composed of 50 short documentaries produced with 50 neighborhood organizations. Massiah is the recipient of a five-year MacArthur Foundation fellowship for his documentary filmmaking and received the Paul Robeson Award for Social Justice from Philadelphia's Bread and Roses Community Foundation.

• Release Date

  Sep 12, 2008

• Runtime

  01:33:47