Biography

DeeDee Halleck is an internationally renowned filmmaker, teacher and media activist, who has campaigned passionately for media democracy for more than 40 years. As co-founder of Paper Tiger Television and the Deep Dish Satellite Network, she planted an array of technologies — home video, cable television and online and satellite broadcasting — firmly in the hands of community organizers and low-income media-makers. Halleck has served as a trustee of the American Film Institute, Women Make Movies, and the Instructional Telecommunications Foundation. She has received the George Stoney Award from the Alliance for Community Media, the Lifetime Ac...Read More