Influence the National Debate on Immigration Community Supported Film’s (CSFilm) New Immigrant and Refugee Visions (NIRV) films are an excellent tool to influence the national debate on immigration. But we can not reach our impact goals without your generous...
Friday, 18 January, 6:30p-9:00p: Hope Fellowship Church 16 Beech Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 (map) “Borrowing Fire“ a short documentary film by NIRV Filmmaker Kebrewosen (Kiki) Densamo of Ethiopia, will be screened and discussedas part of the “Art of Hope” event at...
Day 9 of Community Supported Film’s 10 day New Immigrant and Refugee Visions film festival: Rafael DeLeon, who emigrated from the Dominican Republic in 2009, brings us an excerpt from his daring journey into the daily life of the undocumented in She's an American...
It’s Day 8 of Community Supported Film’s 10 day New Immigrant and Refugee Visions (NIRV) film fest. Today, Abdirahman Abdi brings us an excerpt from his world in Worlds Apart at Home. Abdi emigrated as a refugee from Somalia in 2007. NIRV is a...
On Day 7 of Community Supported Film’s 10 day New Immigrant and Refugee Visions (NIRV) film festival, Braulio Tellez-Vilches brings us an excerpt from his film, Lift with Your Heart, about Haitian choreographer and dancer Jean Appolon. Braulio emigrated from Cuba in...
It’s the Day 10 finale of Community Supported Film’s New Immigrant and Refugee Visions film festival. New Immigrant and Refugee Visions (NIRV) is a bounty of stories about the current immigrant experience in the United States. In these divisive times these stories...
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.
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