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...
Robenson Sanon participated in Community Supported Film's 2014 documentary filmmaking training. As a radio journalist it was his first work with video journalism. He produced the film Out of the Rubble - an exploration of internationally recognized Haitian artists...
Join the Alliance For Refugee Youth Support And Education (ARYSE) and Casa San Jose for a series of 3 virtual film screening events with the New Immigrant and Refugee Visions (NIRV) film collection.
RSVP via Eventbrite to receive a link to the event in your inbox on the day of the event. ARYSE and Casa San Jose will also share the link on the Facebook page on the day of each event.
Online from La Crosse, WI, November 17, 8pm (7pm CST) Students at Viterbo University, a private Franciscan university in Wisconsin, will host a virtual Screen&Discuss on Tuesday, November 17! This online event is free and open to the public. Watch and discuss...
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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