DCTV PaoDucTioN5 This is just a small sample from Downtown Community Television's two catalogs, one of professional videos, listed on these two pages, and another of community productions, listed over on page 13. New releases and other alternative video news are found in their newsletter Scanlines. Both catalogs, along with information about facilities, classes, or use of the professional team are available from: Downtown Community Television Center 87 Lafayette Street New York, NY 10013 (212) 966-4510 ^wnrd-Winnini^ Videos year die from occupational diseases, virtually all of which are preventable. This investigative documentary, winner of an Emmy, explores the cobalt related hard-metals disease that can destroy a pair of healthy lungs in three years, and the legal loopholes that allow big manufacturers to go unprosecuted. Urban Indians. Follows Joe, an unemployed Ogala Sioux, from pine ridge reservation to New York City and back again. The personal struggle of Native Americans continues. Juvenile Justice. Most juvenile detention centers teach kids to become better criminals. But this short Emmy award-winning documentary follows three odd, successful approaches to problem kids: putting them in plush prep schools, sending them out camping together in the Texas desert, and teaching illiterate street kids to tell their stories through video. South Dakota Gold Miners. A modem tale of Third Avenue: Only the strong survive. This powerful Emmy winner documents the tough lives of six people who live or work on New York's Third Avenue. Eddie works in an auto junkyard, but to pursue the American Dream he steal cars. Trudy lives with her five children in a bumt-out and abandoned building. Ricky is a young male-prostitute. Joe has lived on the street for a decade and now asks his wife to take him back. Raul is a poor, hardworking, God-fearing man whose seven children are gradually being lured into working the streets. The Pascones own a barber-shop but their neighborhood has cmmbled and there are no customers. But when the family gets together to sing and dance their spirits rise above their troubled life. r - ci -/ jf: rj^- Don't Move -- Fight Back. A landlord stops providing services. Another violently and illegally removes tenants. This tape shows groups fighting for affordable housing, and winning! Hard Metals Disease. In the U.S. 1(X),(XX) people a miners, sick from silicosis, trying to get satisfaction in a company town. Takes place at the mine whose gold helped build the Hearst publishing empire, which years back hired Pinkerton detectives to kill strikers. Chinatown: Immigrants in America. Documents the densest neighborhood in New York, where heavily overworked immigrants struggle in garment and retail businesses. These are controlled by the unofficial government: the Chinatown Consolidated Benevolent Association. The Story of Vinh. An Amerasian Vietnamese immigrant who speaks no English is misjudged by the New York public school system, which believes him to be 15 when he's actually 21. A story of culture clash and a clunky foster-parent system. Vietnam: Picking up the pieces; Talking to the people; Vietnam 1990, DCTV was the first US TV team allowed into Vietnam after the war, and over the years was given unprecedented permission to film anywhere they pleased. These tapes document the problems the US created in former South Vietnam: prostitution, slums, starvation, mines, poisons and broken relationships. The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution. An Emmy awardwinning look at Philippine social unrest, poverty and the insanity of the US backed Marcos government. Includes a controversial segment where New People's Army rebels ambush a government patrol. Nicaragua '79 — In the Beginning Nicaragua: The Revolution Continued DCTV documents the Sandinista victory over the Somoza regime. They were in the second car of the caravan driving into Managua the day of the triumph. The second tape Page 12 Rain Winter/Spring 1992 Volume XIV, Number 2
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