Dolobox Television Initiative (DTI)
DTI is six-month mentor-based program through which a group of 35 at-risk youth, aged 16 to 25, who have an affinity to the media arts, will conceive, plan and develop media projects and a dramatic television series that expose real life issues facing at-risk youth in Toronto. Projects are designed to promote a positive lifestyle and social environment while presenting alternatives to violence, drugs, crime and other negative lifestyles. From a practical standpoint, DTI presents a unique opportunity to be creative, expressive and entrepreneurial through diverse facets of the performing arts with the guidance of professional mentors from the media industry. It gives youth participants a chance to be in front of the camera through acting and interviewing, or behind the scenes by producing, directing, filming and editing.