Cinema

About

The new DCTV Cinema, a year-round venue devoted to “all documentaries/ all the time,” will serve as a destination screen and assembly/symposia space where established and emerging media artists and audiences will interact on a continuous basis. They will participate not just in viewing the completed work (the film) but in the process of creation itself—an “atelier” for socially conscious moving-image media. After its 2012 opening the DCTV Cinema will feature over 200 cultural and screen events in the first year at which audiences and artists will watch, shape, and act on new media art work. A large international virtual audience will also be invited to attend most DCTV Cinema events via interactive webcasts.

Funding

DCTV Cinema: In the last five years, DCTV has aggressively upgraded its facilities and production resources to match the demands of the broadcast and distribution marketplace and, at the same time, has built out an exceptional in-house skill bank of technological “know-how” and industry access available to independent media artists at low cost.

By adding the DCTV Cinema, a state-of-the-art 74-seat digital public theatre, which is 75% funded, DCTV will be the first-stop destination for domestic and international artists and audiences engaged in the production of and appreciation of nonfiction programming. It will take its rightful place as a cultural and economic force at the same time providing a premier exhibition venue for New York City independent media artists and youth. Supporters of the DCTV Cinema include: the NYC Mayor’s Office; the NYC Council; the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation; the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; the Rockefeller Foundation; and the Hyde and Watson Foundation.