SALEM, Massachusetts House of Seven Gables presents: New Immigrant and Refugee Visions: part 1 Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 5:30pm-8pm POSTPONED The House of the Seven Gables 115 Derby St, Salem, MA 01970 Part one of this five-part Screen&Discuss series at the House of...
Updates
NIRV Filmmaker lands production job with WCVB-TV Ch 5 News
Community Supported Film is thrilled to announce that NIRV filmmaker Abdirahman Abdi, director of Worlds Apart at Home, now works for WCVB-TV as a freelance videographer and editor! Abdi shoots, edits and packages content for TV and online broadcast and works with the...
NIRV Filmmaker Qin Li’s radio debut at ZUMIX!
NIRV filmmaker Qin Li, director of Campaign for a New American, made her ZUMIX radio debut on Tuesday afternoon! Qin and her film subject, Dimple Rana, chatted with Luis Martinez, host of "Want and Get It", a show mixing upbeat Latin music with motivational...
We are a long way from our year-end goal, but….
It looks like we won’t make our $30k year-end goal, but we are determined to keep training and amplifying local voices and perspectives. Many of you have contributed generously, raising $21,893, and we're very grateful. With your support we will bring the voices of...
Haiti & CSFilm | NIRV Events | 12k Raised Toward 30k Year End Goal
Community Supported Film and Haiti's AyiboPost are preparing a new year-long video journalism training and production program for 2020. With your support, journalists at AyiboPost, who participated in CSFilm's 2014 training and production process, will further educate...
YMCA National Partnership for NIRV Screen&Discuss
We are very pleased to announce a partnership with the YMCA to roll out the Screen&Discuss campaign to their network of hundreds of grassroots Ys across the country. CSFilm and the YMCA solidified their collaboration at the National Immigrant Integration...
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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