Donate as little as $1 and make an impact…
$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.
Project Updates
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El Paso Film Festival Interviews NIRV Filmmakers
Posted on October 23, 2020 | No CommentsQin Li’s Campaign for a New American and Kebrewosen Densamo’s Borrowing Fire are included in the El Paso Film Festival 2020, one of the largest showcases of independently made narrative […] -
Documentary Bootcamp – 1 week intensive filmmaking course
Posted on October 17, 2020 | No CommentsCourse Description: Documentary Bootcamp is a one-week, immersive, hands-on learning experience covering the fundamentals of documentary filmmaking from pre- to post-production. Participants will learn storytelling principles, the aesthetic and technical […] -
SURJ Screen&Discuss Brunch brings organizers together around films
Posted on October 6, 2020 | No CommentsShowing-Up-for-Racial-Justice (SURJ-Boston) and CSFilm collaborated for a Screen&Discuss brunch on Sunday, October 4. The event attracted over 50 people and brought together NIRV filmmakers and film subjects as well as […] -
Northshore Magazine: The House of the Seven Gables to show short films by and about immigrants
Posted on October 1, 2020 | No CommentsNorthshore Magazine The House of the Seven Gables hosts New Immigrant and Refugee Visions – Screening and Discussion For more information, please contact: Julie Arrison-Bishop jarrison@7gables.org, 978-744-0991, ext. 152 Register […] -
This film “increased my empathy for the political difficulties of immigrants.”
Posted on September 18, 2020 | No CommentsDuring this Welcoming Week 2020, the?Greater Lafayette Immigrant Allies (Lafayette, IN) organized a virtual NIRV Screen&Discuss to highlight the experiences of immigrants in US politics. “I learned that the fight […]