Afghans you have generously helped continue to need assistance. Since last August, Community Supported Film’s supporters have contributed over $43,000 to our Fund for Afghan Evacuation and Resettlement. CSFilm has distributed close to $45,000 and worked...
The Art Ranger, aka artist Melissa Smedley, produced a podcast on the work and sounds of CSFilm. The Department of Homeland Inspiration podcasts are about the accidental beauty and often absurdity of being alive. The Art Ranger, specializes in seeking out “found...
Basir and Jafar, Coordinators It has been a terribly long and hard two months since we last sent an update. Our days have been consumed with trying to help Afghans figure out their logistical and legal options for evacuation and resettling. While good news often feels...
Ten years ago ten Afghan filmmakers – with the assistance of Roslindale’s Community Supported Film (CSFilm) – made ten short documentaries showing the lives of their countrymen and women. The docs provided a ground level view of life in the war ravaged...
Sunday, August 15 The day Kabul fell to the Taliban, Basir and his family made their first attempt to get into the airport and onto a plane. Four hours after their ordeal started, I got this WhatsApp voice recording from Basir: At 4 am we left the house after getting...