Qin Li has been appointed to the Cultural Council in her home city of Revere Massachusetts. Qin emigrated from China in 2015, where her academic studies focused on rural women. Qin produced here first documentary, Campaign for a New American, as part of Community...
2020 has thrown a lot of curve balls at us. But thanks to so many of you, Community Supported Film's work in 2020 was re-envisioned as an online training and Screen&Discuss experience – and to great success. And for 2021, with your help, we are moving on with new...
2020 has thrown a lot of curve balls at us. But thanks to so many of you, the New Immigrant and Refugee Visions events were re-envisioned as an online Screen&Discuss experience - and to great success. While Corona Virus forced the cancelation of 7...
The Alliance For Refugee Youth Support And Education (ARYSE) and Casa San Jose have teamed up for a series of virtual film screening events with the New Immigrant and Refugee Visions (NIRV) film collection. The first of three events took place on this past Tuesday,...
Students at Viterbo University, a private Franciscan university in Wisconsin, gathered on Tuesday, November 17 to screen and discuss films from the NIRV collection. (See below for a full-length recording of the Zoom event.) "I loved this presentation! The movies were...
Justice for Our Neighbors (JFON) Michigan - Kalamazoo hosted a NIRV Screen&Discuss event focused on the theme of refugee resettlement on Wednesday, November 11. The event included a screening of Worlds Apart at Home by Somali refugee Abdirahman Abdi and Navigating...
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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