This summer, CTVN junior producers completed a series of videos for local non-profit clients, supported by Chicago Fund for Safe and Peaceful Communities #safeandpeacefulchi. The project was part of a city-wide initiative by The Chicago Community Trust to combat summer spikes in violence in at-risk neighborhoods by enabling constructive, community-building Read more…
By Asiah White It’s almost a given these days that the violence in Chicago multiplies by the year, and it’s one of the biggest issues that confronts our city. Within the last few years the gun violence has spiked, garnering national attention. From 2014 to 2016, the gross number of Read more…
Stray Bullets is an original music video produced by CTVN After School Matters Apprentices. It portrays how stray bullets can take an innocent person’s life and the negative effect on the community after a life is taken. This video sheds some light on the effects of gun violence in Chicago Read more…
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…
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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…
This youth-produced documentary on the epidemic of gun violence in Chicago is one of CTVN’s broadest and longest-running projects ever.
Students drink at a party and then drive home drunk. The first time, they make it okay. The next time, not so much. Good introduction of what leads to drinking and driving and why it’s a bad idea.