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.
Four days and 37 interviews later and I have a fresh understanding of the Afghan experience. These candidates were selected from over 60 applicants from throughout the country. We are looking for people with a passion for storytelling, sensitivity to village life and a demonstrated interest in social and economic development. The candidates do not have to have experience with filmmaking. They can be working for example, as print or radio journalists, novelists, poets, photographers or in the theater.
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The work in Afghanistan has begun. On Wednesday I arrived in Kabul at sunrise with 6 suitcases containing five video production kits and everything...
In less than one month our five-week intensive training in documentary filmmaking begins in Afghanistan. Production equipment, donated and...
We have tremendous news to share with you! We are thrilled to let you know that this week the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the...
Only 13.5% of US aid goes through Afghan Government - Call to clean up contracting system Lalit K Jha - May 21, 2010, Pajhwok News Agency,...
by MICHAEL A. COHEN, June 11, 2010 Earlier this month, the Pentagon released a 152-page report outlining the increasingly grim situation in...
“The process of mobilizing the community and widening the participation of villages is itself contributing to stability and security in localities,” says Mr. Ismati. But “using the NSP as a model for counterinsurgency will put the model at risk.”
The National Solidarity Program is a very interesting example of the kind of work which has been going on in Afghanistan for the past few years. It is run under the aegis of the Rural Development Ministry here, with participation of a range of international NGO’s.
This Thursday, July 8 at 8 pm at the Corner Store Art Center, (address below) there will be a presentation on the development of Brewing Tea in a...
Community Supported Film’s Afghan team soon will be making the film Brewing Tea in a Kettle of War (BTKW). BTKW will from the Afghan villager’s...
A few months ago, Marja was the focus of a highly publicized assaultto push the Taliban from a stronghold and bring Afghanistan’s densest area of opium production under government control. The fighting remains raw.