These programs have been broadcast nationally and locally on public and cable television, won numberous awards, and all are in distribution nationawide to educational markets. To focus the organizations' resources around the production and distribution of high-quality documentaries about contemporary social concerns. The documentaries are on issues and from perspectives that are not usually addressed in mainstream media. To bring to audiences important new perspectives on contemporary issues.
Documentaries have the power to inform, provoke, and enlighten.
They believe that informed, provoked, and enlightened viewers develop the awareness to evaluate and change social policy. To collaborate with and support producers from the fertile and creative pool of independent media artists in New England, whose social, cultural, and racial perspectives are often an unheard minority voice in American culture. To promote understanding and appreciation of the alternative and wide-ranging values and points of view embodied in the work of independent media artsits. CID's collaborations with independent producers is unique. The results of their work is evident in the production of over one hundred films and videos, which have established for them a reputation as a uniquely supportive environment for both experiences and emerging media artists.