Waves of Change: Voices from the Global Village

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Website

http://www.deepdishwavesofchange.blogspot.com

Topics

Arts & Culture: Documentary, Experimental, Television
Human Development: Intermediate Technology
Human Rights: Civil Rights
Information & Media: Communication, Culture, Freedom of Expression, ICT (Information and Computer Technology), Internet, Knowledge, Media, Science
Peace and Conflict: Conflict Resolution
Politics: Activism, Civil Society

Budget

Raised to date: $37,000.00
Estimate to complete: $150,000.00
Total Estimated Budget: $0.00
The budget numbers above are accurate as of 04/25/2008

Status

Production

Media Type

Other

Project End Use

Other: television, DVD distribution, internet

Key Personnel

DeeDee Halleck
Development/Co-Director
DeeDee Halleck is a media activist, founder of Paper Tiger Television and co-founder of the Deep Dish Satellite Network, the first grass roots community television network. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the University of California at San Diego. She has been a media activist and producer since the 1960s. She has received an Indy from the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, The George Stoney Award from the Alliance for Community Media; The Life Time Achievement Award of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC)

Victoria Maldonado
Co-Director
Victoria is a Colombian American who has produced many films. She initiated an in-house television channel at Mount Sinai Hospital in the wards for chronically ill children. She was the director of the Colombia Media Project for many years.

Mario Murillo
Co-Director
Mario A. Murillo (M.A. in Media Ecology from New York University) is an associate professor and coordinator of the Audio/Radio program in the School of Communication at Hofstra University, where he has taught for nine years. Along with his extensive radio journalism experience, his ongoing academic research is on community and popular radio in Colombia, with a particular focus on indigenous community radio as a tool for grassroots organizing and mobilization.

Outreach/Engagement Plan(s)

Deep Dish has a 22 year history of distribution to community channels & activist groups throughout the United States, building a democratic media network of public access TV channels in cities around the country, DBS satellite (Free Speech TV & LinkTV), Indymedia and Democracy Now! Over 300 half hour programs which were up-linked to community channels over the years and are now available at archive.org for free downloading and seen by hundreds of thousands of web viewers. Shocking & Awful: a Grassroots Response to War was seen in film festivals & over 7000 copies of the 3 DVD set sold. Our new series, Waves of Change, will have an even wider distribution because it contains segments from dozens of international projects. Those producers and participants will have heightened interest in promoting the series locally in their regions. We think this project can inspire and support community media in the regions that are included and in those areas where there are groups who want to initiate projects themselves. People are beginning to realize that access to communication technology is a human right and already there is interest from researchers and media centers around the world. Our web visitors have come from over 100 countries. In addition to the TV programs & web site, Mario Murillo, DeeDee Halleck and Victoria Maldonado have all published articles about community media and

Funders

Name	Amount	Date
Small Individual Donations	$6,000.00	07/01/2008
Anonymous Individual Artist Donor	$3,000.00	05/01/2008
Philadelphia Foundation	$15,000.00	03/01/2008
Media Justice Fund	$13,000.00	06/02/2007

Short Synopsis

Waves of Change is 12 part television series (and a web site) which surveys Community Media around the world: RADIO, TELEVISION, THEATER, MURALS, COMICS AND THE INTERNET AS FORMS OF RESISTANCE TO HOMOGENOUS COMMERCIAL CULTURE.

Description/Treatment

Deep Dish TV is creating a multimedia collaborative series on the right to communicate on a global scale. The project is designed to document the experiences of media producers and activists worldwide, and share them with a broader audience interested in the role of media – both mass/commercial, and independent/alternative - in our changing world. The resulting material, including a series of DVD documentaries produced in collaboration with the organizations themselves, an interactive website, interview transcripts and a comprehensive narrative summary which hopefully will be published as a book, will be an important resource for educators, activists, media creators, and students working on issues related to media democracy and reform. Furthermore, the project looks to link these international efforts with the broader media reform movement in the United States by drawing parallels to the struggles and challenges of building a democratic media structure from the ground up. The media reform movement in the United States is considered one of the most dynamic, grassroots movements to emerge in this country since the Civil Rights Movement. Its emergence is testament to the growing dissatisfaction from a broad cross section of the U.S. public with the existing commercial model of mass communication. Yet despite the positive efforts reflected in its rapid development, the media reform movement in the U.S., for the most part, continues to be disconnected from the broader, global picture of the fight for democratic communication. There remains a very serious vacuum in the area of international collaboration among similar groups working along parallel lines of media activism and democratic mobilization.