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"Changing Hue" An excerpt from The Hollywood Reporter (February 2001, Vol. CCCLXVII, No.9) While the networks remain the place to reach the widest audience - and all agree that change is required - there are those outside the networks who are working toward alternatives. "We're not the gatekeepers at the networks, and I don't think we'll ever be," says producer Warrington Hudlin ("House Party", "Boomerang"). "The gatekeepers at the networks arbitrate what they want the country to see. The world outside my door isn't the world you see on television. This is not a racial conflict. It's human rights and social justice." Hudlin has joined with a diverse group - mostly people of color - and with partial funding from the Ford Foundation he has created DV Republic: the Liberated Zone in Cyberpsace (www.dvrepublic.com) to create series and other programming that will allow new voices to reach the public. While he admits that "this, by itself is still inadequate," the group has seven series and numerous short films in development, including "Once Upon a Ride," which Hudlin says "is the first Latino series for the Internet." Others are putting their energies into similar efforts.

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