The Downtown Community Television Center (Dctv) is officially launching its own nonprofit documentary cinema in New York City.
Starting September 23, the Chinatown-based theater Firehouse: Dctv’s Cinema for Documentary Film will offer a dedicated space for documentary films featuring first-run debuts and curated programs, making it one of the few documentary-centric theaters in the world. Dctv was co-founded in 1972 by Academy Award-nominee and documentary stalwart Jon Alpert (“Life of Crime: 1984 – 2020”) and Keiko Tsuno, who both currently serve as the organization’s Co-Executive Directors and who together have received 16 Emmy Awards.
“We used to show our documentaries on the corner of Canal Street from an oíd mail truck we bought for 5,” Alpert and Tsuno said in a joint statement. “We had two black and white TV sets and a sound system that was like two tin cans and a piece of string. It took 50 years to build the Dctv Firehouse Cinema,...
Starting September 23, the Chinatown-based theater Firehouse: Dctv’s Cinema for Documentary Film will offer a dedicated space for documentary films featuring first-run debuts and curated programs, making it one of the few documentary-centric theaters in the world. Dctv was co-founded in 1972 by Academy Award-nominee and documentary stalwart Jon Alpert (“Life of Crime: 1984 – 2020”) and Keiko Tsuno, who both currently serve as the organization’s Co-Executive Directors and who together have received 16 Emmy Awards.
“We used to show our documentaries on the corner of Canal Street from an oíd mail truck we bought for 5,” Alpert and Tsuno said in a joint statement. “We had two black and white TV sets and a sound system that was like two tin cans and a piece of string. It took 50 years to build the Dctv Firehouse Cinema,...
- 8/10/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
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