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‘A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan’ to Show at AnthropoGraphia

A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan was selected by the curators of AnthropoGraphia Human Rights Through Visual Storytelling to be one of six multimedia pieces included in its 2012 exhibition. Based on 14 trips to Afghanistan between 1994 and 2010, A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan is the work of photojournalist Seamus Murphy. His work chronicles a people caught time and again in political turmoil, struggling to find their way. AnthropoGraphia is committed to promoting human rights to the world through high quality visual storytelling. This year's curators are Tina Ahrens, co-founder of Emphas.is, James Estrin, founder of the New York Times’ Lens blog and Matthieu Rytz, founder of AnthropoGraphia. The final selections include 12 photo-essays and six multimedia projects. MediaStorm is proud A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan is included in this years selection. See a full list of this years awardees on the AnthropoGraphia website. Congratulations to all the selected projects.

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MediaStorm Welcomes Taylor Buley

MediaStorm is excited to welcome Taylor Buley to the MediaStorm staff as a developer. Taylor Buley is a developer/journalist specializing in JavaScript. He studied Philosophy, Politics & Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and got his masters in Communication from Stanford. He started his career as a fact-checker at Forbes Magazine, where he later became a staff writer and developer and reported from Silicon Valley. Previous to Forbes, where he became a lead editorial developer, he was a Robert L. Bartley fellow at The Wall Street Journal's Editorial Page, a Burton C. Gray intern at Reason magazine and interned for the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

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Film Festival Strategy with Mark Stolaroff

Mark Stolaroff recently posted a useful guide to festival strategy, Film Festival Strategy: Withoutaclue to Withoutabox in 16 Steps. The guide is based on Stolaroff's 20 years of festival going experience and is offered as a teaser for his upcoming class in Los Angeles, The Art & Science of No-Budget Filmmaking. His 16-step guide focuses on using strategy and persistence to navigate the festival circuit. He gives insight on how to decide which festivals to apply to and how to handle (almost inevitable) rejection. Importantly, he gives some helpful pointers on festival etiquette, including a reminder about how much you stand to gain by just being nice. The two-part guide was featured as a guest post on The Stage 32 Blog. Read the full article. And if you're in LA this August, consider checking out Mark Stolaroff's upcoming course: NO BUDGET FILM SCHOOL PRESENTS: "The Art & Science of No-Budget Filmmaking" Saturday…

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