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Decolonise How? | What does a crisis look like? The ethics of humanitarian imagery

Jul 15, 2025

Our collective visual vocabulary of crisis is neither accidental nor neutral. It has been shaped by decades of coverage, often from a narrow, Western lens – a lens that has taught audiences what suffering is supposed to look like. That vocabulary now distorts our understanding of crises and undermines the dignity and agency of those living through them.

Jun 16, 2025

Community Supported Film's Look Listen Local online training in lived-reality documentary filmmaking is developing into a transformative learning tool. Our mission is to strengthen the capacity of local storyteller's to communicate their community's most pressing...

Watch Shots and Scenes – the first training module from Look Listen Local

Dec 10, 2024

Community Supported FIlm is very excited to share with you, Shots and Scenes, the first sample module from our online documentary training – Look Listen Local. Shots and Scenes is an educational tour-de-force about the power of visual storytelling.

Take flight or get rooted – new student videos

Oct 31, 2024

Michael Sheridan, in addition to his work as Director of CSFilm, teaches filmmaking independently and at MassArt. Students in recent filmmaking courses have produced short films on everything from building and flying model airplanes to homesteading. ...

ON THE MEDIA |Israel responsible for record death toll of 126 journalists

Oct 15, 2024

Israel responsible for record journalist death toll of 126 journalists. The CPJ has found that at least five journalists were specifically targeted by Israel for their work and is investigating at least 10 more cases of deliberate targeting

ON THE MEDIA; ON AFGHANITAN | Holding the Taliban Accountable Through the Media

Oct 8, 2024

The digital revolution and modern journalism allow us to cover Afghanistan during these critical times despite Taliban efforts to block us.

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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

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