*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* CSFilm & Coronavirus We hope you and yours are staying healthy in these difficult times. All CSFilm NIRV Screen&Discuss events have been postponed through early April. We hope that public health will allow events to continue in mid-April...
We hope you and yours are staying healthy in these difficult times. All CSFilm NIRV Screen&Discuss events have been postponed through early April. We hope that public health will allow events to continue in mid-April and for others to be rescheduled. In any case,...
Ralph Thomassaint Joseph is a Haitian multimedia journalist currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief at AyiboPost. In September he will begin a two years masters program at NYU. Ralph has been working to continue CSFilm’s training and production work in Haiti since...
SALEM, Massachusetts House of Seven Gables presents: New Immigrant and Refugee Visions: part 1 Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 5:30pm-8pm POSTPONED The House of the Seven Gables 115 Derby St, Salem, MA 01970 Part one of this five-part Screen&Discuss series at the House of...
Community Supported Film is thrilled to announce that NIRV filmmaker Abdirahman Abdi, director of Worlds Apart at Home, now works for WCVB-TV as a freelance videographer and editor! Abdi shoots, edits and packages content for TV and online broadcast and works with the...
NIRV filmmaker Qin Li, director of Campaign for a New American, made her ZUMIX radio debut on Tuesday afternoon! Qin and her film subject, Dimple Rana, chatted with Luis Martinez, host of "Want and Get It", a show mixing upbeat Latin music with motivational...
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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