UnionDocs’ call for their Summer Documentary Intensive will close this month. If you’re an emerging filmmaker looking for a short-term but immersive program to develop your next project, look no further. Final deadline is March 30th, 2015.
Deadline for UnionDocs Collaborative Studio (CoLAB), a 10 month program for media artists, is April 3rd, 2015.
The full 200-step workflow MediaStorm uses with Final Cut 7 and Premiere Pro is now available for purchase in Kindle stores. Perfect for storytellers on the go, the mobile-friendly version of our Post-production Workflow covers our producers' step-by-step process, developed over seven years and more than 100 projects, to streamline the editing process and produce award-winning multimedia. Also included with the workflow is a 60 page guide to using Aperture, Apple’s photo editing software. The guide not only details how to use the program in conjunction with Premiere Pro CC but also offers extensive tutorials on how to enhance your images. Purchase your copy on Amazon.
The Sundance Institute has joined MediaStorm’s community of creative partners, leveraging the power of the MediaStorm Platform to distribute the winning films of the 2015 Sundance Short Film Challenge. The Sundance Institute’s Short Film Challenge, hosted in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is a collection of stories that place a spotlight on what is shared across humanity regardless of economic, cultural and geographic differences. These films illustrate how we can support one another to end poverty and hunger once and for all. This year’s stories are from five amateur filmmakers from Nigeria, Mexico, India, and the U.S.; as well as four films from professionals including Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady; Gael Garcia Bernal; Diego Luna; and Marialy Rivas. The films premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah and will be available for free via the MediaStorm Platform and on sundance.org. Read our case study to learn…
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…
In 2012, Rick Gershon and I traveled to Liberia to document a girls’ education program funded by the American Institutes for Research (A.I.R.). We spent a week following two amazing young women, Rose Kollie and Tina Tyron, both of whom were beneficiaries of A.I.R’s program in the Gokai and Golai school systems. The Ebola outbreak hit Liberia hard in 2014, but we’re happy to report that both Rose and Tina are safe, healthy and still in school. Kathryn Fleming, who is currently the Deputy Chief of Party for the USAID/Quality Reading Program, and who worked directly with Rick and I while in Liberia gave us the update on the girls, as well as their programs. According to Kathryn, A.I.R’s education programs in Gokai and Golai were outside of the Ebola hot zones, and were relatively unaffected. Schools remained open and no one from A.I.R’s staff, or their families were affected by the…