Iraqi Kurdistan by Ed Kashi has been selected as an official entry for the 2007 SILVERDOCS Documentary Festival. This year SILVERDOCS will honor Silence of the Lamb's director Jonathan Demme. The festival runs June 12 - 17 in Silver Spring, Maryland. Ticket information is available from their site.
Iraqi Kurdistan by Ed Kashi has been selected as an official entry for the 2008 Twin Rivers Multimedia Festival. The festival is held annually in Asheville, North Carolina. More information will be forthcoming from the festival's website, www.TwinRiversMediaFestival.com.
MediaStorm's Chad Stevens recently documented The National Press Photographer's Association's Best Of Photojournalism judging process. The annual event is hosted by OHIO University’s School of Visual Communication. View the the nine-minute video here.
We are proud to announce that MediaStorm has won a prestigious 2007 Webby Award in the Magazine category. Other nominees in the category were Salon, Nerve, Zink and Worldchanging. Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video, and Mobile Websites. The 11th Annual Webby Awards received 8,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide.
Over the last 8-months MediaStorm has grown it's production capabilities by bringing aboard four top-tier multimedia professionals. The most recent addition is Multimedia Producer Chad Stevens. Before joining MediaStorm Chad was studying as a master's degree candidate at School of Visual Communication at Ohio University. Prior to that, he worked as a faculty member at Western Kentucky University's photojournalism program. In 2002, he spent a year living in East Africa producing multimedia projects for Save the Children, AIDchild, Literacy and Basic Education and the Global Food for Education Initiative. Read more of Chad's work and personal history. In February, Interactive Designer Tim Klimowicz came aboard. Prior to joining MediaStorm, Tim was completing a BFA in Graphic Design from the School of Visual Arts. His ongoing interactive project - Iraq War Coalition Fatalities - has been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide and received recognition from multiple media outlets, including the…