Is This the Promised Land? (1992)

In the 1960’s, The Freedom Movement took Chicago by storm and started a campaign for civil rights to also be noticed in the north. Dr. Martin Luther King and his family resided in Lawndale while he pushed for better housing in Chicago for African-Americans. In the decades since, Community TV Read more…

How to Be a Man wins Best Documentary award

Youth Documentary Wins Award for Commentary on Sexism

We’re excited that CTVN’s documentary “How To Be a Man” won the Best Documentary Short award at Our Voices Film Festival in Vancouver, Canada! Congrats to the whole team involved in making #HowToBeaMan: Elsa Cristina Concepcion Jocelyn Hernandez #MarvinaJohnson #SeionBrown #ViHaden.  Special thanks to CTVN instructor Bill Sacco and film festival coordinator Jonathan Read more…

After the Bullet

After the Bullet, produced by Community TV Network and directed by youth filmmaker Brittany Douglas is one teen’s journey through grief and resilience as she tells the story of how losing her mother to gun violence has shaped her life for better or worse. After the Bullet is a tale Read more…

Bullet Trailer -Coming Fall 2012

The Bullet is a  short documentary film based on Brittany Douglas personal account of overcoming a culture of violence and loss through resilience, personal determination and storytelling as healing. Beyond simply telling stories, Bullet is an examination of the act of storytelling and art-making itself as a way of mediating Read more…