During 2009, MAIN worked with Dublin Community Television to make a series of four programmes on men’s issues – ‘Men in the Noughties’. DCTV continues to screen these programmes on Chorus: NTL channel 802. They can also be watched on our Vimeo.

Using a panel based discussion format, Looking Left examines Irish alternative media and left-wing publications from the late 60s to the 1980s. Programmes in the first series have looked at The Irish People, the newspaper of Official Sinn Féin, the community focussed Gralton and Z Mag, the Irish Socialist which served as a vehicle for the Irish Communist Party, and The Ripening of Time, the theoretical organ of Revolutionary Struggle. Also available to view on Vimeo.

This short documentary features Martin Jones and his family, exploring the changes that had to be made to their home when Martin became a wheelchair user . It was commissioned by the Dublin Community Forum’s Disability Focus Group to inform policy makers, planners and designers of issues concerning the space requirements of wheelchair users within their homes. Also available to view on Vimeo.

The All We Want To Say research project was a national survey carried out by researchers working with the National Institute for Intellectual Disabilities. As phase two of the project, researchers wanted to turn their findings into a tool for advocacy and change. To this end, the NIID established a partnership with DCTV to film presentations and develop a DVD educational tool. The methodology used to produce the video mirrored that of the research stage, with participants themselves playing a key role in the edit stage. Also available on Vimeo.

Access for All is a four-part series, which looks at some of the issues facing the disabled community in Dublin. Each episode looks at a particular issue from the viewpoint of people with disabilities. Full details and streams of the series can be found here.

From the street level view of ‘One Less Car’, to the city cycling officer going to Amsterdam and London to see what they’re doing in ‘Three Cycling Cities’ to the thinking that is going into making Dublin a ‘Two Wheeled City’ DCTV’s innovative new series on cycling is must viewing for anybody interested in how our city and transport systems function. Full details and online streams are available here.

Young Urban Arts invited 14 young people from youth projects across the city to get involved to script, act, direct and produce their very own series called Happy Pizza. The young crew attended training from January until June 2009 in preparation for the production month in July. As employees of DCTV for July, they are earning money while gaining invaluable experience in an arts focused environment.  Crew TV is a Partnership Training Programme between Young Urban Arts and DCTV.  You can read more about Crew TV at our special sub-site.

Dinner Next Door – also released as Taste of Home is a four part series where each episode sees a different community hosting a dinner party for their next door neighbours. We see Polish, Nigerian, Afghan and Chinese residents of Dublin shopping, cooking and eating with Irish friends – and gain an insight into life in Ireland for the new communities in our city.

These four short films were each produced by a different crew and cover very different topics. An early DCTV project this is the first instance of partnerships that developed into other series such as the Aontas Adult Learners festival and the Killinarden school film Johnny Splits. Also included is Absolution – a hard hitting drama shot in Ballymun and a profile of the Dublin Food Co-op as it moved to new premises.

183 episodes covering 6 months in a city, this social history series narrated by residents from all around Dublin looks at the humorous and not so humorous stories from ordinary Dubliners.

Another of the Community in a Studio projects, this 4 part Irish language series looks at raising your children thorugh Irish. Produced by Comhluadar it is available with English subtitles.

Part of the Dublin School Tales project this innovative film made by the pupils of St Marks Community School in Tallaght also includes the Making of Tim documentary covering the 3 month production and showing how much the pupils put into the project – and how much they got out of it.