“The Fruit of Our Labor Films” Available for Online Screening on Daazo.com! – 1 Month Only

October 23, 2013

daazoWe are very excited to announce that, beginning October 23, 2013, all ten shorts from The Fruit of Our Labor will be featured on Daazo.com – The European Short Film Centre. For one month, all of the films will be available to watch, comment on, or “like” through Daazo’s website.

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Daazo.com is a short film sharing site supported by the MEDIA Programme of the EU that hosts several thousand contemporary shorts. Alongside these recent films, Daazo presents old classics that are not available elsewhere on the Internet.  Daazo creates opportunities for cinephiles to watch regular film premieres, follow or take part in film competitions, and find out about short film news and updates.

A scene from Hands of Health.

CSFilm is enthusiastic about Daazo’s mission and hopes our partnership will further open viewers’ eyes to the power of local perspectives in film.

The documentary shorts show aspects of life in Afghanistan that are not often covered in the Western media: Water Ways chronicles one village’s struggle to obtain clean drinking water.

Hands of Health follows a village’s Women’s

A scene from Water Ways.Council and their efforts to build a maternity center. All of the shorts were developed and directed by Afghan filmmakers during a filmmaking training conducted by Community Supported Film.

Visit Daazo.com to view the shorts from The Fruit of Our Labor.

 

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