Open Society Institute launches Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster

The Open Society Institute and MediaStorm recently collaborated to produce Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster (www.katrinamedia.org). This site chronicles the struggles and triumphs of Gulf Coast residents since the destruction more than two years ago. Through stories and images, the site explores what is preventing residents from recovering from the disaster and returning home. It features the work of dozens of award-winning print and radio journalists, photographers, filmmakers and youth media organizations, all of whom are OSI Katrina Media Fellows."

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MediaStorm launches The Ninth Floor and MediaStorm Store

The Ninth Floor by Jessica Dimmock Hidden in an elegant building in a wealthy Manhattan neighborhood, was a sprawling apartment filled with young drug addicts. The Ninth Floor is the story of their battle with addiction, each other, and themselves as they search for some kind of redemption.    MediaStorm Store Launches DVDs of The Ninth Floor and many other MediaStorm projects are now available for purchase via the MediaStorm Store. Projects are available for both personal and educational use.

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Bob Sacha joins MediaStorm

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I'm excited to welcome Bob Sacha as MediaStorm's newest Multimedia Producer. Bob is an award-winning photojournalist who has spent more than 25 years producing in-depth photo essays, portraits and covers for National Geographic, Life, Time and Fortune, among dozens of other national and international publications. Bob was the John H. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellow at Ohio University in 2006-2007, teaching photography and as a master's candidate in new media and film. This year he leads a graduate seminar in documentary and photojournalism at New York's International Center of Photography.

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MediaStorm Collaborates with Open Society Institute

MediaStorm and Open Society Institute have produced Zimbabwe: The Fight to Free a Country, a multimedia documentary that highlights the human rights abuses of Robert Mugabe's government. The piece can be found on OSI's Eye's on Zimbabwe website, as well as additional resources about the country. From the site: Zimbabwe: The Fight to Free a Country combines footage from inside Mugabe’s police state with testimony from torture survivors, activists, and lawyers who have witnessed the regime’s repression first hand. As the humanitarian situation deteriorates and election season draws near, activists call on the international community to assist Zimbabwe’s people in their struggle to overcome repression and establish a democracy.

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Abuse Aware, Red Design, MediaStorm collaborate on AbuseAware.com

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Abuse Aware has launched their website as a resource for all those affected by domestic violence. The site features photographer Donna Ferrato's prolific documentary of domestic violence victims and families from her body of work, Living With the Enemy as well as its video production by MediaStorm. From the site: AbuseAware.com is the first domestic violence website to visually prove how devastating all forms of abuse are for everyone. By confronting the public with documentation of real faces and true stories, photographer Donna Ferrato shoots to wake up society through the media, domestic violence organizations, exhibitions, lectures, slideshows, campaigns, and events. We must recognize and take action against this epidemic. This website seeks justice and support through an interactive DV web community where anyone can relate their experiences through video, photographs, and blog entries 24/7. We encourage you to be a part of this cause, not only to help others, but to…

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