Refugee filmmakers filmed their lived realities from refugee camps in Greece, Kenya, Uganda, Jordan and as asylum seekers in Indonesia and Mexico for three screenings at the prestigious Copenhagen International Documentary Festival, April and May 2021. Each filmmaker...
Inez Hedges, longtime CSFilm supporter and retired Chair of Cinema Studies at Northeastern University, where she hired CSFilm director Michael Sheridan to teach, has written a review of two new books on documentary activism and new approaches to distribution. In her...
The House of the Seven Gables, a colonial mansion turned non-profit museum, hosted the second in a series of virtual New Immigrant and Refugee Visions (NIRV) Screen&Discuss on Wednesday, March 24th. The event featured two films from the NIRV collection of short...
The Patch and Wicked Local, 3/18/21, Salem|Local Event, by Rae Francoeur New Immigrant and Refugee Visions filmmaker Kebrewosen Densamo SALEM — In Ethiopia, where Yonas Badi grew up, people would go to a neighbor to “borrow fire” when they didn’t have the money for a...
JP Movie Night hosted a 1 hour online Q&A on March 18th 2021. Filmmakers Rafael DeLeon and Qin Li were joined by the subject of Rafael's film, Annabelle adn Michael Sheridan, director of CSFilm. Attendees watched five of the ten New Immigrant and Refugee Vision...
Community Supported Film and I lost a a great friend, adviser, teacher, mentor and guiding artist and filmmaker when Denise Marika died of cancer in July 2018. February 28th was Denise's birthday. Despite the sadness of not being able to toast (and roast) her in...
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.
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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