Opportunities like these drive our mission to create a free online asynchronous training in lived-reality documentary filmmaking.
Who is best placed to report on humanitarian situations. Is it the cadre of “international” journalists or their local counterparts?
This ambitious online documentary filmmaking training needs the generous support of committed community members like you. With your help, we will start filming and editing the instructional videos this summer.
What was emphasized during the discussion is that it is up to those that believe in the US as a nation of immigrants, to counter the lies and misinformation that is permeating the current dialogue about new immigrants and refugees in the US. It is incumbent on all of us to speak out against xenophobia and hatred toward the newest members of our communities.
This is an on point analysis of the bias and other colonialist practices of mainstream Western media that are so badly impacting how we understand and address conflicts and crises.
Join us for one or more of these upcoming digital video courses:
Documentary Story Development, 7 Mondays, 03/18-05/06, 6:30-9:30pm
Video Editing, 7 Tuesdays, 3/20-05/01, 6:30-9:30pm
Transcultural Exchange released EPISODE 5, Caught in the Crosshairs, of their new TV series. It includes a segment on Community Supported Film (20:22).
“I thought a lot about you and what you taught us while making this video.
CSFilm’s work is truly making a difference!”
The goal, she says, was to teach her followers that there was more to Gaza than conflict and destruction.
We need to raise $20,000 by the end of the year to meet our production goals. Can you help? No donation is too small or too large!
CSFilm encourages you to think critically about who decides on and creates your news and information. Here are a few of suggestions for local reporting on issues of international concern:
Community Supported Film (CSFilm) wrote a new proposal to seek support for the development of our online documentary training (ODT). We are pleased to announce that the McMillan Stewart Foundation generously granted $20,000 for this two-year project. ODT will train community activists, journalists, and other grassroots storytellers in documentary filmmaking – from story development through post-production.