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.

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.

Written and directed by Eoghan McQuinn this Irish short follows the story of 15 year old Gavin as he waits for the results of his chemo

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.

‘Johnny Splitz’, a short film made by a group of talented young people from fifth year in Killinarden Community School Tallaght, has been named one of the winning films of the Dublin regional heat and is going on to the final in Limerick on March 25^th for this year’s Fresh Film Festival competition. Fresh Film Festival is a highly regarded festival based in Limerick and showcases films by young filmmakers under the age of 18.

Johnny Splitz looks at the familiar story of teenage pregnancy and its effects in an unusual, entertaining and original way. Johnny is a typical teenager. He has just broken up with his girlfriend and is quite happy about it. Little does he know that soon he will be begging her to take him back, buying bigger pants and making history… as the first pregnant man in Ireland!

Students worked with filmmakers, Olivia Fitzsimons, Barry Hamilton from DCTV, and Orla Russell Conway, throughout the project, which took place last year. With the assistance of filmmakers from Dublin Community Television (DCTV) and South Dublin County Councils Film Programme, students scripted, acted, directed, and filmed the piece. Since the completion of the project some members of the group have become part of a new youth-led filmmaking group supported by the Arts Council and South Dublin County Council’s Arts Office, Tallaght Young Filmmakers (TYF).

Noreen Walsh from Killinarden Community School stated, “We are very excited at being nominated for Fresh Festival. Jonny Splitz was our first venture into film making. It has been a wonderful experience for the students involved and for the whole school. We could never have imagined, at the outset that we would be sending students to a Film Festival!”

Produced by Dublin Community Television (DCTV), the film was originally screened as one of the first featured shorts for the launch of DCTV during the summer of 2008.

Johnny Splitz will be screened in Limerick on March 25^th.

Johnny Splits from DCTV on Vimeo.

Reel Youth’s main objective is to get young people from different projects to meet each other and realise common interests. It’s a project that sets out to leave media skills embedded with both the participating young people and their youth workers. Founded by Bradóg Regional Youth Services, it’s mandated to work with young people in the North West Inner City through their voluntary participation in activities and processes that have positive outcomes. They have pioneered video-making with young people with lesser opportunities and, for the past five years, supported young people to make national and international award-winning short films. Bradóg founded the coveted Reel Youth Film Festival and is an active member of the European youth organisation, Empower Media Network.