It looks like we won’t make our $30k year-end goal, but we are determined to keep training and amplifying local voices and perspectives. Many of you have contributed generously, raising $21,893, and we're very grateful. With your support we will bring the voices of...
Community Supported Film and Haiti's AyiboPost are preparing a new year-long video journalism training and production program for 2020. With your support, journalists at AyiboPost, who participated in CSFilm's 2014 training and production process, will further educate...
We are very pleased to announce a partnership with the YMCA to roll out the Screen&Discuss campaign to their network of hundreds of grassroots Ys across the country. CSFilm and the YMCA solidified their collaboration at the National Immigrant Integration...
Thursday night's Screen&Discuss event at the Westwood Public Library in Westwood, MA brought out local high school students. "The kids really liked it!" says teacher Pauline Chaloff. "A lot of them were surprised as to how much they liked it — "I thought it was...
WESTWOOD, Massachusetts Westwood Public Library presents: Screening and discussion: New Immigrant and Refugee Visions Thursday, December 5, 7pm-9pm Westwood Public Library (Main Branch) 660 High Street, Westwood, MA 02090 Westwood Public Library and Westwood High...
Last night's Screen&Discuss event at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston inspired conversation and motivation among museum-goers. These films motivate me to have "more neighborhood conversations," said one participant. The three films -- Borrowing Fire,...
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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