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DeeDee Halleck is a media activist and founder of Paper Tiger Television and co-founder of the Deep Dish Satellite Network. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at U.C. San Diego. Her first film, "Children Make Movies" (1961), was about a film-making project at the Lillian Wald Settlement in Lower Manhattan. "Mural on Our Street" was nominated for an Academy Award in 1965. She has led media workshops with elementary school children, reform school youth and migrant farmers. In 1976 she was co-director of the Child-Made Film Symposium, which was a fifteen year assessment of media by youth throughout the world. She is one of the founders of the Independent Media Center Movement, which has created alternative media centers in thirty-eight cities around the world.
She served as President of the Association of Independent Video and Film Makers (AIVF) in the seventies, and also as a trustee of the American Film Institute, Women Make Movies and the Instructional Telecommunications Foundation. She has authored numerous articles in Film Library Quarterly, Film Culture, High Performance, The Independent, Leonardo, Afterimage and other media journals.
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