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Queens Public Television | Daniel J. Leone, President/CEO
Board of Directors: Patrick J. DiMotta, Chairman; Nayibe Berger;
Sandra Delson; Stuart Domber; John B. Haney; Alfred Harris; Henry Kee;
Joan Serrano-Laufer; Ruth Schlossman
Honorary Directors: Joel A. Miele, Sr., Director Laureate;
William L. Jefferson, Director Emeritus
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2017 Alliance for Community Media National Hometown Award Winner
My Block TV - A Father and a Daughter
Congratulations to QPTV Access Producer Oswald Williams for his series pilot
program My Block TV - A Father and a Daughter. Oswald is the winner of the
2017 Alliance for Community Media’s Hometown Media Award in the web-based
programs category for independent producers.
QPTV Access Producer Oswald Williams worked with actor Ralph Outerbridge to
create My Block TV’s A Father and a Daughter web series. The series is about a single
father raising his daughter, after his wife died in a car accident, and the different trials
he faces, such as financial hardship and peer pressure.
Oswald met Ralph through a Queens-based organization called F.A.I.T.H. (Fathers Alive
in the Hood), whose mission is to nurture and develop interpersonal relationships
between children, parents, schools, religious institutions and communities. F.A.I.T.H.
participates in many community initiatives such as Fatherhood Support groups,
healing the 100, Dads Take Your Child to school, cure violence and many others.
Through their involvement in the organization, Oswald and Ralph began to discuss
the creation of a simple, yet powerful film that would show African American males
in a different light. They wanted to create the program using the resources they had:
a simple cast with the environment and location as key parts of the story.
QPTV Access Producer
Oswald Williams is
passionate about
storytelling and desires to
consistently create diverse
content for the Queens
community and beyond.
To watch this award winning program, go to: https://youtu.be/Wdnlcj-IctU