LSPTv Promo Trailer
LSPTv will be the first inmate-run, prison-based television station in the nation. HCD will build a broadcast studio and provide media training for inmate staff. LSPTv will produce programming of interest to the large community of Americans affected by our criminal justice system. Programs will include Fathering Behind Bars, Re-Entry Preparedness, Sports, Legal Literacy and more. CLICK BELOW TO WATCH THE PROMO TRAILER!
Highest Common Denominator recently talked to Ebonyjet.com about LSPTv. Click here to read the article entitled, “In Louisiana, America’s Toughest Inmates Produce Compelling Television”.
Henry Jenkins
Henry Jenkins, MIT Professor and author of “Convergence Culture” talks about the new media landscape. Enjoy this short piece produced by Highest Common Denominator Media Group. CLICK BELOW FOR VIDEO CONTENT!
I’ve been back from Nigeria for over a month and been steadily working on a presentation to Sundance and the Skoll Foundation. Now that I’m done with the cut, I think we’ve got something really amazing here. I had imagined ten minutes of material (all that I was required to create), but I ended up with 25 good minutes…scenes, characters and a narrative. Of course, I feel good about it!
Indeed from the very beginning, I wanted to tell a story about Africans returning from the Diaspora to create wealth, not to fight poverty. Click to read entire blog…..
The Farm: 10 Down
One decade after THE FARM: ANGOLA, USA (Oscar nominated 1999; two-time Emmy Winner 1999), we go back inside Louisiana’s maximum security penitentiary, to catch up with our characters lives. While the theme of THE FARM was to “err is human, to forgive divine”, we now delve more deeply and find hope for “reconciliation and release”. Angola is America’s oldest and largest prison, with 5,000 inmates, most of whom have received life-, or death-,sentences for violent crimes, and will never leave Angola. THE FARM continues to provide extraordinary opportunities for learning through storytelling. CLICK BELOW FOR VIDEO CONTENT!
“The Farm: Life Inside Angola Prison” (1998) as well as its sequel, “The Farm: 10 Down” (2009) are now available for purchase on the HCD website. Click here to visit the store!
Gabriel City
The facts are shocking. The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world. This affects over 30 million people – victims of crime, incarcerated persons, and family members alike. In response to this, HCD Media Group has launched Gabriel City, an online community for the millions affected by the criminal justice system.
Louisiana State Penitentiary Television (LSPTv)
LSPTv will be the first inmate-run, prison-based television station in the nation. HCD will build a broadcast studio and provide media training for inmate staff. LSPTv will produce programming of interest to the large community of Americans affected by our criminal justice system. Programs will include Fathering Behind Bars, Re-Entry Preparedness, Sports, Legal Literacy and more.
The Road to Redemption
Our short film looks into the hearts of young women who were combatants in Liberia’s long and brutal civil war, as they seek to heal their deep wounds and rebuild their shattered lives. It celebrates these women who are working to build a secure future for this beleaguered African nation, using storytelling to heal, and to prevent future conflict.
Connected
CONNECTED is the story of Nigerian entrepreneur, Dr. Aloy Chife, and his unrelenting effort to shrink Africa’s digital divide and level the playing field for the planet’s poorest by employing his company, SW Global Limited. The film will follow Aloy as he launches new projects and works to export software solutions to Sri Lanka (the first technology transfer from Africa to an Asian market) and take SW Global Limited public, listing it on a global stock exchange.
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