America Abroad Media talks with Michael Sheridan about his creation of Community Supported Film, experiences in Afghanistan, the training of Afghans...
Michael Sheridan interviewed on America Abroad Media
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Afghanistan
CSFilmmakers present at World Bank
The World Bank office in Kabul invited Community Supported Film’s emerging filmmakers to present their work to their foreign and Afghan staff in...
Bumpy uphill roads in Afghanistan
I was back in Afghanistan for the month of April, when spring was rapidly coming to Kabul and the arid climate quickly shifts from below freezing...
Harvard University Talk
Creating an effective documentary is a decidedly difficult task; one must carefully consider both the story and its intended audience, and...
Screening Tour – The Fruit of Our Labor
"Transformative" "Eye-opening and Disturbing" "The first time in ten years I've actually heard an Afghan's voice" "I've made a film in Afghanistan....
First screenings and discussions in the States
To my surprise, a few of the art students in the evening didn’t believe the authenticity of the work – primarily because from their point of view the war is not mentioned or shown at all. When I tried to explain that the film’s intention is to present outsiders a view of Afghanistan beyond the battlefront it became clear that the western media has created such a strong impression of Afghanistan being only about war, terror and extremism, that viewers can not trust a representation that does not include these things.
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Training Concludes with Kabul Screening
Mehdi and Jamal were talking and one said to the other, “I can’t believe it, it’s magic – 10 films in 5 weeks – magic.” The magic has been the great energy, smarts, high spirits and unwavering determination that everyone brought to the work. Please make it all worthwhile and watch the films!
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Two Notes to Self
Note to self: Don’t use the dry cleaner next to the butcher. I was very excited to see my button down shirts coming back so clean and nicely...
‘Fruits of our Labor’ film screening Nov 10th at FCCS, Kabul
We hope you can join us for the screening of films made by the students of the Community Supported Film documentary filmmaking training. The...
Press Conference
[Ed. 7/21: The last names of Afghan filmmakers and images of those still in the country have been removed due to the increasing insecurity in...
Kite flying in Kabul
On many days the sky in Kabul is full of small kites. The children here love flying kites. The reality here is that most children don’t have very...
Daily Affairs in Sunny Kabul
The majority of my time I feel like I am in any typically out of control South Asian city. The streets are a chaos of every day survival activities. Of course surviving is a rough business here and not only because of the decades of instability. This is just another part of the world packed mostly with people only able to think about making it from one day and one meal to the next.