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Neighborhood Centers and MediaStorm Present “H-Town Stories”

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:August 22, 2013

Neighborhood Centers Inc., is a not for profit organization that brings resources, education and connection to over 400,000 people throughout Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast region every year. Dozens of different social sectors fall under its scope. Neighborhood Centers asked MediaStorm to create a film that addressed the question: why does our work matter? H-Town Stories offers an answer. Rather than tell the history of how Neighborhood Centers came to exist and explain all that this massive organization does, we took the approach of telling personal stories about the people they serve everyday. Intimate, cinematic narratives bring the heart and soul of the organization to life. Houstonians can view an edited version of the film on Saturday, August 24th, 2013 at 5:00 pm on KHOU 11 News. The full-length feature will premiere on MediaStorm.com on September 19th, 2013.

Worth Clicking: MediaStorm Links Roundup

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:August 16, 2013

All links are hand-picked by the MediaStorm staff for your enjoyment this weekend. Cheers! Photographer Frank W. Ockenfels III on shooting Breaking Bad’s moody desert character portraits. [Pop Photo] This year, Stanley Kubrick would have turned 85. The BFI has published a great list of Kubrick’s favorite films and influences. [nofilmschool] A look at the science behind conscious and unconscious awareness, and how the brain allows photographers to know things with intuition. [PetaPixel] On the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. shared his dream for America, TIME talks to the people who helped make the march a success. [TIME] West of Memphis Trailer - if you've seen Paradise Lost, or even if you haven't, you owe it to yourself to see this amazing documentary. [YouTube] From One Second To The Next Documentary - It Can Wait. Werner Herzog. Enough said. [YouTube] The last gadget you’ll ever…

“The Distance Between Us” on KickStarter

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:August 16, 2013

Photographer Chris Capozziello began to make photographs of his twin brother, Nick, in their early twenties. Nick has cerebral palsy. Though Chris didn’t set out to tell a story, the photographs he took helped him examine he and his brother’s story more deeply and move past the guilt he carried for being the healthy twin. He has compiled his photographs – along with raw, honest diary entries – into a book that you can help publish through Kickstarter.
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Worth Clicking: MediaStorm Links Roundup

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:August 9, 2013

All links are hand-picked by the MediaStorm staff for your enjoyment this weekend. Cheers! Own your audience and stop relying on YouTube. [Social Times] Trying to understand the invisible array of algorithms that power your Netflix suggestions has long been a favorite sport, but what’s actually going on in that galaxy of big data, those billions and billions of ratings stars? [Wired] See "A Darkness Visible:Afghanistan" take shape, from radio cuts to final output in less than 3 minutes. [MediaStorm Blog] In New York, widely regarded as a gay-friendly city, reports of attacks on same-sex couples are on the rise, one young couple tells their story. [The New York Times] In this multimedia presentation Nichols and Williamson re-create the feast and famine of the plains; the purring, bleating, and roaring of these cats; the fragile balance of lion survival. [National Geographic] “We have no problems with others telling the story. Our own…

MediaStorm Welcomes Fall Intern Julia Wall

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:August 5, 2013

MediaStorm is excited to welcome Julia Wall to our team as our Fall 2013 production intern. Julia Wall is a visual journalist from Wilmington, North Carolina. She recently graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with a bachelor’s degree in photojournalism. Julia has been exploring visual journalism and documentary storytelling for the past 3 years. During her time at UNC Chapel Hill she worked on award winning projects such as Living Galapagos and Port City Stories. She won second place in the 2013 Hearst Multimedia National Championship in San Francisco. In the summer of 2012 she was a photography intern at The Durham Herald-Sun, and she is currently a video intern at the Los Angeles Times. Her videos and photographs can be viewed at www.juliawallphoto.com.