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…
Response to George Zimmerman Verdict
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…
The 86 students at one of CTVN’s Alternative School sites, Winnie Mandela Intergenerational Alternative school do not have a lunch program. A group of students, tired of being hungry all day, have decided to change that. The social justice and video production class has begun a campaign, dubbed the Read more…
Invincible. Know it all. Experienced. All adjectives and phrases that you believe about yourself once you come out of college and into the real world. You think you’ve done it all, think you’ve seen it all, think you’ve learned it all. But the truth is, you really haven’t. Being an Read more…
CTVN is proud to announce that we are partnering with The Imagining Peace Conference where we will be showing videos made by youth across the city exploring their idea of peace. See a sneak peak from CCA, Pedro Albizu Campos, Charles Houston High School and Lake View Academy here. Read more…
Want to make movies? Learn from the teaching pros at Community TV Network, Chicago’s premier youth digital media organization for over 30 years. CTVN, with the sponsorship of North Park University, is offering a 2-week filmmaking course this summer for high school students. Students will learn the fundamentals of digital Read more…
We’re proud of our students at CTVN’s video production program at Prologue Early College, co-taught by Vedran Residbegovic and Virginia Boyle, who won the national video challenge by the Frederick Douglass Family Foundation with their entry “What is Freedom,” a public service announcement informing people about modern day slavery. 17 Read more…