USAHello, an online center for information and education for immigrants and asylum seekers, celebrates New Immigrant and Refugee Visions with the launch of their new website. Beginning in April 2020, the organization will post to their site a different NIRV film every...
Immigrants at work in health care, churches and services Our weekly online New Immigrant and Refugee Visions (NIRV) themed screenings allow you to watch a selection of the NIRV films with your home-bound and online family and friends. This week's theme is Immigrants...
NIRV filmmakers Qin Li of China and Kebrewosen Densamo of Ethiopia represented CSFilm and New Immigrant and Refugee Visions at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry on Wednesday, February 26, 2020. Students, faculty and staff joined the two filmmakers in...
Get up and dance with films about immigrant cultural activists Our weekly online New Immigrant and Refugee Visions (NIRV) themed screenings allow you to watch a selection of the NIRV films with your home-bound and online family and friends. This week's...
The House of the Seven Gables News Release, March 10, 2020 For more information, please contact: Julie Arrison-Bishop jarrison@7gables.org, 978-744-0991, ext. 152 SALEM, MA — The House of the Seven Gables is about to kick off a dynamic new film and community...
New Immigrants and Refugee Visions-at-homeWatch Refugees in America: Three films by and about refugees With our New Immigrant and Refugee Visions (NIRV) themes campaign you can watch and discuss a selection of the NIRV films with your home-bound and online family and...
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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