From July 23-29, 2011, six talented participants collaborated with the MediaStorm team at our Advanced Multimedia Workshop. Over the course of a week, they reported, edited, and produced two stories. A Thousand More by Kristina Budelis, Piotr Malecki, and Jeff Rhode A family is determined to give their disabled son a whole and vital life. In the midst of a great burden, one small child – with a seemingly endless supply of love – is the blessing that holds a family together. Nine Digits by Dominik Baumann, Gabriela Bulisova, and Meredith Davenport Nine Digits tells the story of Cesar, a young man fighting for U.S. citizenship. Our next Advanced Multimedia Workshop will be held November 12-18, 2011, in Brooklyn, NY. Application deadline is September 16, 2011. These workshops, held in New York City, are intensive, hands-on educational experiences in advanced multimedia storytelling. Over the course of a week, participants work in three-person…

MediaStorm has been collaborating with photojournalist Seamus Murphy to complete a documentary film based on his work A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan. We have started a fundraising campaign on KickStarter to finish this film and get it launched. In Seamus' words: Afghanistan’s recent history is a roller-coaster of foreign involvement and abandonment, resulting in a global crisis the world continues to struggles with today. The country was granted hero-status by the West when it resisted the Soviet invasion. But the vicious civil war that followed the Soviet withdrawal, the rise of the Taliban and the al Qaeda attacks launched from its soil on 9/11 made it into a pariah state. Afghanistan has been invaded, used and mythologized, but rarely understood. This project is the result of over 15 years traveling and photographing in Afghanistan, recording unexpected stories of struggle, survival and hope. My mission is to promote an understanding of this mysterious, complex…