BOSTON, Massachusetts Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum presents: Screening and discussion: New Immigrant and Refugee Visions Thursday, November 21, 5pm-7pm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 25 Evans Way, Boston, MA 02115 Featuring a screening of Lift with Your Heart by...
Jo Anderson Cavinta, Diversity Services Coordinator of the King County Library System in Washington, partnered with Alaric Bien, Senior Planner for the City of Redmond to offer a CSFilm-style Screen&Discuss event on September 17, 2019 during national Welcoming...
Community Supported Film visited North Shore Community College's Lynn campus on October 22, 2019 for a screening of films from the New Immigrant and Refugee Visions collection and a discussion with filmmakers and film subjects. Filmmakers Rafael Deleon (Dominican...
Thank you to everyone (~50 of you) who joined CSFilm and the Commission on Immigrant Rights & Citizenship (CIRC) at the Cambridge Public Library on October 12, 2019 for a screening of films from the New Immigrant and Refugee Visions collection and a discussion...
Providence, RHODE ISLAND Providence College presents: In-class presentation, screening and discussion: New Immigrant and Refugee Visions Monday, October 28, 9am-5pm Providence College, 1 Cunningham Square, Providence, RI 02918 CSFilm Founder and...
Detroit, MICHIGAN The National Immigrant Integration Conference 2019 presents: New Immigrant and Refugee Visions Sunday, October 20, 2:45pm-4pm TCF Center, 1 Washington Boulevard, Detroit, MI 48226 Abdirahman Abdi, NIRV filmmaker and director of Worlds Apart at Home,...
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.
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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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