Photos from the New Immigrant and Refugee Visions filmmaking training, production and screening process.
Films | Summary | Training | Info on Immigration
Host a Screen&Discuss | Upcoming Screen&Discuss | Impact | Buy
NIRV Training
- Introductions around the table
- Introductions
- Introductions: Kiki, from Ethiopia
- The technology
- Learning to Visualize a Scene
- Introductions: Braulio, from Cuba
- Abdi and Braulio
- Qin Li and Abdirahman Abdi compose a shot together
- Thelimo Louis of Haiti sets up a long shot.
- Qin Li of China practices composition, while Michael Sheridan looks on.
- Introduction to the camera
- Michael Sheridan reviews various camera functions with the NIRV Trainees
- Michael and the film crews outside the CSFilm office. Left to right: Michael, Mubarak, Thelimo, Rafael, Sayed, Katsy.
- Katsy, Kiki & Michael observe that Sayed and Mohammed already look like filmmakers as they head down the street.
- Mohammad documents Sayed’s Kubali Pulao for posterity. Qin’s Green Bean Cakes nearly gone. Mubarak asks Sayed about the dish.
- NIRV Trainees at SoWa Market
- : Editor Dan Girmus, points out to filmmakers Braulio Tellez Vilches, and Katsy Rivera-Kientz how certain aspects of the footage they shot work well.
- Peter Rhodes (center) describes the effect of shot selection on storytelling to Sayed Hashimi of Afghanistan (left), Qin Li of China, Kiki Densamo of Ethiopia, and Rafael DeLeon of the Dominican Republic.
- Peter Rhodes, Editor
- Monica Cohen “thinks aloud” as she edits the material shot by Thelimo Louis of Haiti and Abdirahman Abdi of Somalia.
- Mubarak Nsamba watches Assistant Trainer and Editro Samantha Corsini work with Jorgy Cruz get the editing software set up.
- Katsy and Braulio show us how salsa is done
- With me now…
- The turn…
- Thelimo and Mohammed learn from Master Braulio
- Kiki gets her salsa on!
- Dan Girmus, Additional Editor
- Jorgy Cruz, Additional Editor
- Monica Cohen, Editor
- Samantha Corsini, Assistant Trainer and Additional Editor
- Sayed checks his notes while Mohammad shoots.
- Braulio and Qin go for the action: baseball practice.
- Katsy sets up an over-the-shoulder shot during a class exercise
- Michael asks Thelimo and Mubarak about their setup.
- Sayed and Mohammad, looking the part.
- Katsy, Kiki & Michael observe that Sayed and Mohammed already look like filmmakers as they head down the street.
- Abdi and Rafael embrace teamwork and each other.
- Braulio Tellez-Vilches of Cuba, Kiki Densamo of Ethiopia and Mohammad Arifuzzaman of Bangladesh inspect their camera for the first time.
- Katsyris of Puerto Rico and Roman of Bangladesh: her solid calm balances his driving eagle eyes riveted to the viewfinder. They take turns handling the camera to shoot a giant game of Jenga that alternately rises and crashes.
- Rafael of the Dominican Republic and Braulio of Cuba film an elegant coffee-making pushcart from a variety of angles. while Michael chats with the owner about the enjoyment of coffee, far from the fields where it grows.
- Abdi, Mubarak, Kiki and Rafael
- Michael projecting films on his whiteboard scribbled with notes
- Kiki and Abdi as movie stars
- Abdi and Kiki back to work
- Katsy and Mohammad get the shot right
- Mohammad and Katsy setting up
- Katsy and Mohammad in action
- Rafael and Braulio in action
- Braulio and Rafael setting up
- Rafael goes for the close up
- Qin and Sayed discuss the shot
- Qin and Sayed look for a quiet place
- Sayed and Qin in action
- Thelimo and Mubarak discuss the shot
- Mubarak gives direction
- Adbirahman Abdi of Somalia
- Braulio Tellez-Vilches of Cuba
- Kebrewosen “Kiki” Densamo of Ethiopia
- Katsyris “Katsy” Rivera-Kientz of Puerto Rico
- Mubarak gives direction
- Mohammad “Roman” Arifuzzaman of Bangladesh
- Rafael Deleon of Dominican Republic
- Sayed Hashimi of Afghanistan
- Thelimo Louis of Haiti
- Q&A with Michael Sheridan and NIRV Filmmakers at the “Meet the Filmmakers, Meet your Neighbors” event
- The NIRV Filmmakers at the “Meet the Filmmakers, Meet your Neighbors” event
NIRV Premiere Screening at Boston Public Library (March 31 and April 1, 2019)
- NIRV Premiere at Boston Public Library
- NIRV Premiere at Boston Public Library
- NIRV Premiere at Boston Public Library
- NIRV Premiere at Boston Public Library
- NIRV Premiere at Boston Public Library
- NIRV Premiere at Boston Public Library
- NIRV Premiere at Boston Public Library
- NIRV Premiere at Boston Public Library
- NIRV Premiere at Boston Public Library
- NIRV Premiere at Boston Public Library
- NIRV Premiere at Boston Public Library
- NIRV Premiere at Boston Public Library
- NIRV Premiere at Boston Public Library
- NIRV Premiere at Boston Public Library
- NIRV Premiere at Boston Public Library
- NIRV Premiere at Boston Public Library
Great beginning! congratulations all.