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Interviewing candidates for the training

Sep 22, 2010

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 Begins

Sep 18, 2010

The work in Afghanistan has begun. On Wednesday I arrived in Kabul at sunrise with 6 suitcases containing five video production kits and everything else necessary for a five week training course in documentary camerawork and five weeks of production work on Brewing...

It’s all coming together! Applications for documentary training are piling up!

Sep 2, 2010

In less than one month our five-week intensive training in documentary filmmaking begins in Afghanistan. Production equipment, donated and purchased, is rolling in the door. The passport is stamped, shots are taken and ticket bought for departure on September 13th....

Tremendous News! Thanks for your continued support!

Aug 13, 2010

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 Danish International Development Agency are following your lead and contributing substantially to the first phase of...

Project presentation by Michael Sheridan, July 8, Washington DC

Jul 6, 2010

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 Kettle of War. The project’s director, Michael Sheridan, recently returned from Afghanistan and will introduce the...

Brewing Tea in a Kettle of War – Pitch Reel

Jul 1, 2010

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 perspective look at the impact of outsiders coming into their communities trying to help them.

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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

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