Filmmaking and the Issues and Places Covered

US Immigrants' Perspectives in Film: NIRV

Haitian Perspectives in Film: Owning Our Future

Afghan Perspectives in Film: The Fruit of Our Labor

Host a Filmmaking Training

$25 will pay for the production of discussion materials for each event, including Film and Filmmaker introductions, Discussion Guides and Action Toolkits.

$60 will pay for a filmmaker/presenter’s per-event stipend.

$200 will pay for the screening equipment, room rental and other event logistics.

$500 will pay for the travel and accommodation to a national event for a filmmaker/presenter.

$1000 will sponsor a Greater Boston event.

$1500 will sponsor an event in a city like Salt Lake City, Nashville, Houston, or Des Moines – where 10-30% of residents are foreign-born but 50-100% of the state’s representatives have voted against immigrants on national legislation.

$4500 will sponsor a 3-event trip to one of these cities.

$1-20,000 – Hours of people power it takes to coordinate and evaluate even just one event.

Support of CSFilm enables us to:

>> Train, mentor and collaborate with local storytellers from underrepresented communities in documentary filmmaking and video-journalism;

>> Facilitate their production of powerful stories that visualize and articulate economic and social challenges from the local perspective;

>>Build and strengthen distribution networks between local social-issue mediamakers, their communities and an international community of concerned citizens.