Before and After a Training - Look, Listen and Witness the Transformation by Michael Sheridan, Founder and Director of Community Supported Film From November to January I did three trainings in Indonesia and one in Afghanistan. These commissioned trainings have...
Updates
International Women’s Day Short Films – with CSFilm’s “The Fruit of Our Labor” – Baltimore, MD
Creative Alliance and the Baltimore Resettlement Center present.... International Women’s Day: Short Films Series and Panel Presentation Thursday March 7th, 2013 at 7:30 PM Creative Alliance at The Patterson 3134 Eastern Ave., Baltimore, MD 21224...
CSFilm Selected as Echoing Green Semi-Finalist
Community Supported Film is proud to announce we have reached the semi-finalist round for the 2013 Echoing Green Fellowship. Out of 3,000 candidate submissions, CSFilm's Michael Sheridan was among 444 social entrepreneurs selected to continue on to the next level of...
Kabul in Winter – Training and Production Goes On
Despite the winter weather, the trainees - 6 National Solidarity Program production staff - have completed preproduction research and story development and are heading to Jalalabad and Kapisa Provinces for production of three stories. Working in teams of two, teams...
Watch the Video Conference: Afghan Civil Society in Conversation
Watch a recorded video conversation with Afghan Civil Society Activists here. Afghanistan is like a cancer patient that accidentally survived, with too many doctors giving everything they can rather than listening to what this patient wants, and allowing it to walk on...
The Jakarta Post Interviews Michael Sheridan
This November CSFilm director Michael Sheridan was interviewed by the Jakarta Post about his intensive training sessions in Indonesia. Michael Sheridan: Making Room for Local Perspectives by Iman Mahditama, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | People | Tue, November 27 2012 As...
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
Samples of CSFilm’s Work
Excerpt from Haitian filmmaker Bichara Villarson’s Owned and Occupied, part of the Owning Our Future: Haitian Perspectives in Film film collection.
Excerpt from Afghan filmmaker Aqeela’s The Road Above, part of The Fruit of Our Labor: Afghan Perspectives in Film film collection.
These films are made to stimulate dialogue. Here is an excerpt from a New Immigrant and Refugee Visions Screen&Discuss event.
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