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 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...
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...
The Good Men Project exclusively presents "Death to the Camera," one of the ten documentary films in the collection The Fruit of Our Labor - Afghan Perspectives in Film. For one week only, the full 20 minute film will be available to watch on their website! The Good...
On Nov. 13 CSFilm attended Northeastern University's B.I.G. Venture Fair, a pilot program sponsored by Northeastern's Career Services and the Center for Research Innovation for the university's Global Entrepreneurship Week. CSFilm joined other start-up and growth...
Follow along with Michael Sheridan's second journal entry from the radio documentary training in Kabul, Afghanistan for the Afghan staff of America Abroad Media (AAM). (The first journal entry can be read here.) Saturday's training reviewed principles of storytelling...
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
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.
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