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...
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...
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.
During Michael’s June trip to Afghanistan he reached out to the international community for BTKW production funding.
The photos below are from my flight from Dubai to Kabul. In our recent video it is said that "for many Afghans you are a foreigner whether you are from 7 or 7000 miles away." Looking down at this extreme landscape it is much easier to understand how isolated many...
Tuesday, December 15, 6:30-8:30, at Boston University 147 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (corner of Silber Way and Bay State Road) Ample parking is available on the street – The closest T stop is Kenmore on the Green Line Michael Sheridan will make a presentation on the...
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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