The New York City firehouse studio that housed Democracy Now! from 2001 to 2009 has reopened as a movie theater devoted to documentary films. The opening of Firehouse: DCTV's Cinema for Documentary Film comes as Downtown Community Television celebrates 50 years of media activism and training. "We wanted to build something that really respected and paid tribute to documentaries," says DCTV's co-founder Jon Alpert, who says the theater is "completely interactive" and will "serve the community." DCTV is also part of a broad alliance in the Chinatown neighborhood to stop the development of a new jail - a 300-foot-tall "jailscraper" - that Alpert says would likely be "the physical end" of DCTV. Alpert just won the News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Crime and Justice Documentary for the last part of his HBO trilogy, "Life of Crime: 1984-2020."
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