“Fight Hate With Love” Shortlisted for Tim Hetherington Trust Visionary Award
We are honored to announce that Fight Hate With Love has been shortlisted for the Tim Hetherington Trust's inaugural Visionary Award. The project, currently in production and helmed by Andrew Michael Ellis, MediaStorm's director of photography, chronicles the story of activist Michael Tabon. Mike has been caught in the revolving door of the prison system since he was sixteen years old. Incarceration became a way of life, seen as an inherited destiny for America's young Black poor, until he had a revelation--that he could break the cycle of the womb to prison pipeline gripping marginalized communities across the country. Fight Hate with Love is about one man’s journey to change the world and still be the guide his family needs him to be. It is a road fraught with struggle. In this film we explore what is possible and what is sacrificed when a man’s desire to be a hero for the…