The NGO Committee on Migration hosted an online NIRV Screen&Discuss, June 25, 2020, with CSFilm director Michael Sheridan. The event brought together leaders, staff and activists from a global coalition of organizations working on issues of migration and...
June 12th, 2020 The systemic illnesses in our society have been laid bare over the last months – racism, militarized policing, dysfunctional governance, flailing health and emergency response systems, media misinformation, a broken immigration system, gross...
The Returned Peace Corps Volunteers – Community for Refugee Advocacy will commemorate World Refugee Day with a Screen&Discuss of the three New Immigrant and Refugee Visions films about refugees. The films will be introduced by CSFilm director, Michael Sheridan...
Join Global Friends Coalition on Saturday, June 20 at 2:00pm CST for a screening and discussion of three NIRV films -- Worlds Apart at Home by Abdirahman Abdi, Navigating Hope by Sayed Najib Hashimi and Pulse of a Dream by Mubarak Muwonge Nsamba. A live panel...
In honor of World Refugee Week, Tennessee Justice for our Neighbors (TNJFON) invites you to watch Sayed Hashimi's "Navigating Hope" on Wednesday, June 17 at 2pm and Thursday, June 18 at 10am. The watch party is available on TNJFON's Facebook page at...
Ralph Thomassaint Joseph, the producer of this story and short video, was the force behind csfilm.org's 2014 doc filmmaking training that resulted in the collection of 10 short films, Owning Our Future - Haitian Perspectives in Film...
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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