This charts the making of Just Call Me Tim, a short film produced by the students of St. Marks Community School in conjunction with DCTV. The production process was tied in with a training programme that provided the students with various production skills through workshops carried out by the DCTV crew.

Participants in the Pedal Project and Dublin cycling enthusiasts gathered in the DCTV studio to review DCTV’s recent use of the documentary format to instigate a city wide discussion on cycling.

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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.

The first annual Noise Flicks event was held at RUA RED South Dublin Arts Centre on March 21st 2009. The event was supported by Dublin Community Television (DCTV), RUA RED South Dublin Arts Centre, and IT Tallaght. DCTV provided a judge for the selection panel, aired the entrants work as part of its Gimme The Camera block and sent out a small crew to record the event and produce a 20 minute documentary with editorial guidance from the festival director.

Northside Focus is a magazine programme that showcases community events that happen on the Northside of Dublin, alongside sports and hobbies that bring people together in their local communities. It was made with the assistance of Near TV volunteers.

In Episode 2 Stuart brings us up to to the Skerries Road Race where we get an opportunity to meet some of the bikers involved in the event and get a sense of what it means to have the event in the area.

In the second part we visit Black Heath Archery Club to look at this vibrant sport. Then Louise Clancy introduces us to the Howth and Sutton Horticulture club and meet some of the people there.

Finally we get an opportunity to see a spoken word event called Ra that is held in the Cobblestone Bar in Smithfield. And we get an insight into the world of spoken word performance art in Dublin.

The making of this programme has been supported through Sound and Vision, and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.

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.

The series participants speak candidly about their experiences in the areas of: Education; Family; Media and Disability; Sexuality and Relationships. The aim of the series is to facilitate individuals and the wider disabled community to become more visible and to present their own experiences and views on the issues that matter most to them.

The people involved in the series provide thought-provoking and challenging stories about how they live work and define themselves.

‘This is a series about everyday people; not heroes or warriors, just regular people trying to access a regular life. And they want to share their stories with you because sometimes just fitting in and getting by takes all you’ve got.’

On the launch of this major piece of observational documentary, we took the iniative to add a new section to our site that weaves together our programming strands on disability issues. We’ve hours of content and it’ll take us some time to get it all online, but keep checking back for more.

We are interested in organising screenings and discussions about this project.  If you want to organise one with us, then get in touch.

Access For All premiered as part of our Fresh Block during January 2010 on DCTV.  It had its real world launch on November 9th 2009 in conjunction with the Disability Focus Group who are part of the Community Forum and work for the rights of the disabled community in Dublin .

Access for All has been uploaded to our Vimeo account for online viewing.

The Dublin Council of Trade Unions, in conjunction with the Youth Committee of the ICTU and in co-operation with the Health trade unions, inaugurated a ‘Campaign for a Decent Public Health Service’ some time last year.

The Campaign hoped to bring together those who work in the Health Service and their trade unions, with patients’ advocates, Health and Hospital campaigners, concerned Health professionals, community and voluntary organisations, the trade union movement in general and the general public to demand a civilised Health Service.

DCTV recorded the meeting as part of our The Document series.

A documentary on homelessness in Cork.

In the late 1970s and early 80s Dublin was a city spinning out of control due to the first devastating epidemic of heroin addiction. Inner city communities were under siege as drug users converged from all over to buy drugs in their flat complexes. By early 1983 hundreds had died as a result of drug related problems. Ordinary citizens mobilised and took to the streets in an attempt to stop the sale and distribution of drugs which were killing their families, friends and neighbours.

They burst onto the scene attracting enormous attention as a result of directly confronting pushers and dealers, policing and barricading whole areas of Dublin in a community fight for survival. Thus began what has been described as the most significant social movement to emerge from Dublin’s working class community since the 1913 Lockout and the rise and fall of CPAD is told in new two part documentary series ‘Pushers Out’.

Pushers Out can be seen on DCTV on Saturday November 21st and Sunday 22nd at 8.30pm.