Crew TV is finally online for your viewing pleasure. This show was completely put together by a group of young people working in the DCTV studio last summer. Read more about it here.

Working with Young Urban Arts, DCTV invited 14 young people from youth projects across the city to get involved in scripting, acting, directing and producing their very own series called Happy Pizza. The young crew trained from January until June 2009 in preparation for the production in July. Happy Pizza follows the life of John Murphy, a pizza guy going through the trials that his life has thrown at him. Happy Pizza is a slice of comedy packed with funny shorts and a strong story. As John delivers pizza, Crew TV, delivers a great production in 3 half hour shows. As employees of DCTV for July, they earned money while gaining invaluable experience in an arts focused environment.

CREW TV/ HAPPY PIZZA plays from December 12th as part of Fresh 2 on Tues 1900, Wed 1230 and Sat and will play out all December and January.

Check out Irish Times coverage here.
Check out The Crew TV blog here.

Directed by Cameron Allen Randolph ‘Technology is making us lazy’ is an Irish short about a group of youngsters who secretly protect our society

A little known piece of history is brought to life through the chance purchase of a bag of crisps. Read about Micheal Fortune’s piece here.

Another collection of out takes and behind the scenes Shenanigans from Crew Tv just went up. We’ve a promotional postcard for the Crew Tv project, get in touch if you want some posted out.

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We’ve another Vlog from Crew TV. Neil tells us a bit about the bumps in the road the Crew has experienced during production. Help us spread the good word about this project by embedding the video on your website or social network profiles. Just hover over the top right corner of the video above to find a way to share it.

Because waves of repression continue to come: lawsuits are still levied against innocent people; arrests are still made on flimsy pretexts, in order to terrify and confuse; harsh laws are still enacted against filesharing, taking their place in the gradual erosion of our privacy and the bolstering of the surveillance state. All of this is intended to destroy or delay inexorable changes in what it means to create and exchange our creations. If STEAL THIS FILM II proves at all useful in bringing new people into the leagues of those now prepared to think ‘after intellectual property’, think creatively about the future of distribution, production and creativity, we have achieved our main goal.

This is a zero budget kung fu comedy made exclusively on the northside of Dublin city. It was reviewed on RTE 2’s Blizzard of Odd and uniquely wasn’t lambasted.

Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property produced by The League of Noble Peers and released via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol.

Two parts, and one special The Pirate Bay trial edition of the first part, have been released so far, and The League of Noble Peers is working on “Steal this Film – The Movie” and a new project entitled “The Oil of the 21st Century”. Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow called it ‘an amazing, funny, enraging and inspiring documentary series’.

Frankie is sixteen and wants to be a film maker, right now she thinks she’s the most interesting subject to hand. As part of Fresh Films, she produced a little snippet of teenage life, on some strata she thinks it might be mildly amusing. She loves art and there’s a nice visual black and white feel to her work in a simple evocation of her interests.