NW Documentary, 6 NE Tillamook St, Portland, Oregon 97212 (corner of Tillamook St. and Williams St.) Thursday, October 27, 6-8pm, PDT The Messenger is the Message-Local Perspectives in Film Michael Sheridan, director of Community Supported Film, will introduce and...
CSFilm director Michael Sheridan has been invited by the Film Studies and Multimedia Design departments at Highline College to conduct classes and make a campus wide presentation over three days in October. Highline provides community college programs and bachelors...
From Abricots Haiti - Light in their Eyes CSFilm Haiti Program Coordinator Ralph Thomassaint Joseph directed this new film in collaboration with the camera and editing assistance of CSFilm training coordinators and assistant trainers Jude Stanley Roy and Evens Louis....
Michael Sheridan will teach a semester long Filmmaking Fundamentals course at MassArt, Boston, this fall. Please join us or spread the word. Class Name Film Production Fundamentals Start Date September 6, 2016 End Date December 13, 2016 Meeting Days Tuesdays Time...
Michael Sheridan, director and founder of Community Supported Film, will join Anthony Riddle, BRIC Brooklyn Public Network, and Bonnie Schumacher, St. Paul Neighborhood Network, to speak about building documentary programs at the Our Town Annual Conference of the...
Wednesday, June 29th, 6:00 - 8:30 PM Irish International Immigrant Center 100 Franklin Street, Lower Level, Boston, MA 02110 (entrance at 201 Devonshire St) Join Community Supported Film (CSFilm) and the Irish International Immigrant Center (IIIC) for a...
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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