Tools for Public Access TV
Award
$380,000
Winner
Organization
Denver Open Media
Location
Summary
This project will enable public access TV stations and community technology centers
to use common tools to create web sites that enable the transfer of video between the web site and the TV station. Together, public access TV and community
technology centers can engage disadvantaged communities in new media platforms. While there are thousands of public access stations and community technology centers country-wide that provide media education and equipment, they don’t share a tool-set enabling them to become part of a collective, user-driven, online media network.
Winner Bio
Tony Shawcross is the founder and executive director of Deproduction, a nonprofit media production organization. After graduating magna cum laude with a degree in marketing and business administration from the University of Colorado, he worked briefly in marketing and advertising for the IT industry before leaving to focus entirely on socially relevant film and video production, working with Little Voice Productions, the Colorado State House of Representatives, the Pan African Arts Society and Free Speech TV. Shawcross has presented more than 100 media education courses with Indymedia, Denver Open Media, the Alliance for Community Media, and at various conferences, schools and universities. He has produced hundreds of films and videos produced for local and national television, film festivals and community screenings.
