Get up and dance with films about immigrant cultural activists Our weekly online New Immigrant and Refugee Visions (NIRV) themed screenings allow you to watch a selection of the NIRV films with your home-bound and online family and friends. This week's...
Updates
The House of the Seven Gables launches CSFilm short-films series by and about immigrants
The House of the Seven Gables News Release, March 10, 2020 For more information, please contact: Julie Arrison-Bishop jarrison@7gables.org, 978-744-0991, ext. 152 SALEM, MA — The House of the Seven Gables is about to kick off a dynamic new film and community...
Watch: Refugees in America
New Immigrants and Refugee Visions-at-homeWatch Refugees in America: Three films by and about refugees With our New Immigrant and Refugee Visions (NIRV) themes campaign you can watch and discuss a selection of the NIRV films with your home-bound and online family and...
Newsletter Spring 2020
*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* CSFilm & Coronavirus We hope you and yours are staying healthy in these difficult times. All CSFilm NIRV Screen&Discuss events have been postponed through early April. We hope that public health will allow events to continue in mid-April...
CSFilm & Coronavirus
We hope you and yours are staying healthy in these difficult times. All CSFilm NIRV Screen&Discuss events have been postponed through early April. We hope that public health will allow events to continue in mid-April and for others to be rescheduled. In any case,...
CSFilm Haiti Program Coordinator Ralph Thomassaint Joseph accepted into NYU’s Masters degree in Journalism
Ralph Thomassaint Joseph is a Haitian multimedia journalist currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief at AyiboPost. In September he will begin a two years masters program at NYU. Ralph has been working to continue CSFilm’s training and production work in Haiti since...
Vision and Mission
Community Supported Film (CSFilm) amplifies local voices in under- and mis-represented communities so that they can effectively communicate their lived realities through documentary filmmaking.
We believe that if people learn about the world’s challenges from the local perspective they will be better able to demand the right actions from their governments and to support effective humanitarian responses.
Michael Sheridan, Director of CSFilm, on the impact of local perspectives
Samples of CSFilm’s Work
Excerpt from Haitian filmmaker Bichara Villarson’s Owned and Occupied, part of the Owning Our Future: Haitian Perspectives in Film film collection.
Excerpt from Afghan filmmaker Aqeela’s The Road Above, part of The Fruit of Our Labor: Afghan Perspectives in Film film collection.
These films are made to stimulate dialogue. Here is an excerpt from a New Immigrant and Refugee Visions Screen&Discuss event.
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