If you are interested in learning documentary filmmaking and are in or can get to Boston, USA, I'll be teaching an intensive one-week course at Massachusetts College of Art and Design January 11-15, 2016. This is an immersive, hands-on learning experience....
Many non-profits do not have the funds to hire photographers to document their many activities and to visualize their stories for their community and supporters. Orgs often rely on an already over-worked staff to snap pictures on the run; too often the results are not...
Robenson Sanon, Haitian radio journalist and participant in CSFilm and Groupe Medialternatif's training, is pursuing his dream to focus on documentary films that concentrate on the challenges faced by Haitians. He sent a link today with shots from his initial footage...
A selection of films from The Fruit of Our Labor-Afghan Perspectives in Film are screening at the 3rd Annual Afghan Documentary Film Festival in Stockholm, Sweden, December 11-13. The films include Beyond Fatigue, by Baqir, Searching for a Path, by Reza, Death to the...
Owning Our Future-Haitian Perspectives in Film Get your tickets now for the premiere US screening of all ten Haitian-made films. Wednesday, October 21, 7:15-8:50pm Kendall Square Cinema, One Kendall Square, at 355 Binney Street, Cambridge, MA,...
THE FOUNDRY A Place for Change The Messenger is the Message Michael Sheridan will speak at The Foundry, London (July 7, 12:00-1:00) about his work to put Afghans and Haitians in charge of the storytelling about their community’s economic and social development...
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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