CTVT EDUCATIONAL DVDs

By Chris Haydon on January 18, 2013

Community TV Trust has developed a series of DVD projects, following its work on knife crime in 2005: they are Healthy Eating, Personalising Mental Health Care, Islam In Southwark, Peckham Travellers and most recently Gangs, Shame & Violence for which filming is now complete. The latter project is part funded by the Police Property Fund but [...]

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Community Media Forum Europe

By admin on November 18, 2011

Community TV Trust is now an organisational member of CMFE and is participating in their first conference being held in Cyprus. A plenary session on Day One featured a panel on community media and the Arab Spring with speakers from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya (by Skype from Benghazi), Syria, Jordan. An inspiring discussion with examples of [...]

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Future of Local Television

By admin on November 9, 2011

Chris Haydon, director of Community TV Trust, sat on a Westminster Media Forum panel in October with Greg Dyke, former Director General of the BBC, and other leading advocates of local TV in the UK. The CTVT position campaigning for online media practice rather than employing the broadcast model for local media puts CTVT in [...]

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CTVT/DCMS Meeting re Local Media: A Role for HMG

By admin on May 27, 2011

Chris Haydon, director of Community TV Trust, had a meeting yesterday with the Media Team at the Department of Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport. Haydon was invited in to brief the team on the work and views of CTVT in relation to the Hunt plans for local television. All along CTVT has opted for broadband/online [...]

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Local Media: A Role for Government

By admin on March 28, 2011

To all practitioners of local media, DCMS Jeremy Hunt is chasing something that is simply not on the same page as local media – with its low costs and low overheads, and all its attendant benefits to participants and local audience. See below the CTVT response to a recent Westminster Media Forum:           “The Future of Local Media [...]

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LOOKING BACK/big screen meets radio

By admin on November 18, 2013

We are recording our next radio programme this week. Yup, community tv does radio. This is in support of our soon-to-be-launched cinema advertisement for local domestic abuse agency SASS, aka Solace Women’s Aid. It is a multimedia world alright. The programme will be broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM on 5th December at 8pm. The cinema ad [...]

CTVT’s SVI film with LFF’s Best Newcomer

By admin on October 23, 2013

Jonathan Asser, who won Best Newcomer at this year’s London Film Festival, is the subject of our latest documentary “Shame/Violence Intervention”. His screenplay for the feature film “STARRED UP” is based in part on his work with violent offenders in Wandsworth Prison, which we examine in the SVI documentary. Interviews with ex-offenders are supported with contributions [...]

POCKET PLACES PECKHAM – Sustrans

By admin on October 3, 2013

Our commission from Sustrans to produce films around the innovative Pocket Places Peckham project in the Rye Lane area of SE15 has reached an important staging post. Production of four films reflecting the programme of developmental workshops led by project coordinator Hannah Padgett concluded recently. They trace Sustrans’ engagement with local residents in the generation [...]

SASS – Cinema ad for Peckhamplex

By admin on October 3, 2013

CTVT has completed production for a cinema ad to play on all screens in Peckhamplex, promoting awareness of SASS – the Southwark based support service for victims of domestic abuse. Filming took place in late July and August, with volunteer actors coming from as far afield as Gravesend and from Clean Break. Unfortunately London and Southwark are [...]

SUPPORTING THE DRAGON – “A Southwark Tale”

By admin on October 2, 2013

Community TV Trust together with Dragon Cafe and Susan Young completed post production of “A Southwark Tale” – a half hour documentary telling the story of Sarah Wheeler, the founder of Mental Fight Club and Dragon Cafe - in time for the planned screening on Monday 30th September in celebration of the first year of this excellent new resource [...]

SVI Launch

By admin on July 17, 2013

CTVT’s documentary on the Shame/Violence Intervention therapeutic programme devised by counsellor Jonathan Asser was formally launched on Tuesday 16 July 2013 at the St Marylebone Healing & Counselling Centre in London. The film was directed by Chris Haydon with Asser acting as consultant. Following the screening of the 50 minute film, the invited audience – comprising ex-offenders, [...]

FECKHAM PECKHAM

By admin on June 10, 2013

CTVT has produced its first radio production for broadcast on Resonance FM. It is a one-hour preview programme for the production by Chris Haydon of Samuel Beckett’s great play ENDGAME. The local cast and designer are complemented by local producer Kamal Prashar, also a trustee of Community TV Trust, who has overseen the recording and [...]

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Community TV Trust

Community TV Trust [CTVT] specialises in local media, giving training to people of all ages and abilities, facilitating vision and production. It also produces films and educational DVDs. It campaigns and through its founder, Chris Haydon, gives talks and papers at conferences, seminars and educational events.…(more)

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