It turns out that doing a Community Supported Film training and production project in the US is much more challenging than in Haiti or even Afghanistan. This came as a surprise to all of us! When the New Immigrant and Refugee Visions (NIRV) training began in July...
Heather Cassano, a documentary filmmaker and NIRV editor, will be screening her film "The Limits of My World" at the Independent Film Festival Boston 2018 on Saturday, April 28 at 3:45pm - Somerville Theater in Davis Square. The Limits of My World tells the story of a...
On April 5, 2018, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University held a conference on Citizenship, Gender, and Film and was attended by NIRV Filmmakers, Kiki, Mohammad and Abdi. “Who Belongs? Global Citizenship and Gender in the 21st Century” opened...
Each season, Youth Underground creates a new piece of Investigative Theater. This year’s theme is the Immigration. Ginger Lazarus, who wrote Here and There, interviewed a few of our NIRV participants. Performance information: written by Ginger Lazarus directed by...
Congratulations to Katsy who will be presenting her academic work in the 43rd Annual Caribbean Studies Association Conference at Havana, Cuba this June! Her work examines the role of social media in the mobilization of the Puerto Rican diasporic community in response...
Thank you very much to those who attended the New Immigrant and Refugee Visions (NIRV) Screen & Discuss event hosted and organized by the Watertown Free Public Library and the Watertown Citizens Refugee Support Group. It was great to have you there and to have so...
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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