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MediaStorm Releases New Client Project for the United Nations Forum on Forests

We are pleased to release Finding Balance: Our Future, Our Forests, produced in collaboration with the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) for the upcoming Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Part of the UNFF’s mission is to change the way policymakers view forest-related issues. Previously forest preservation was considered an environmental issue. In order to create more lasting and far-reaching change, the UNFF believes it is necessary to also include social and economic values in discussions about forest preservation. Forests are, in many complicated ways, interconnected with the lives of people and cultures. MediaStorm worked with UNFF to create a piece that shows the landscape view of this issue, including why forests are important, why they are under threat, what is at stake, and what might be the solution.

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Recap: MediaStorm World Premiere of A Shadow Remains and Rite of Passage

From left: Brian Storm, Maggie Steber, Phillip Toledano and Tim McLaughlin at the premiere. Photo by David Keenan. Last night MediaStorm hosted the world premiere of A Shadow Remains by Phillip Toledano and Rite of Passage by Maggie Steber at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, NY. MediaStorm founder and executive producer, Brian Storm, started the evening by welcoming the audience to the event and then quickly turning to the films, first screening Rite of Passage by Maggie Steber, then Phillip Toledano’s A Shadow Remains. After watching the films, Brian invited Phillip, Maggie, and one of the films' producers, Tim McLaughlin, (producers Jennifer Redfearn and Rob Finch were not able to attend the event) to the stage for a Q&A with the audience. Before opening the floor to questions, Brian explained how the projects came to be. He initially approached both Maggie and Phillip about working together on their pieces over four years…

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MediaStorm Releases A Shadow Remains and Rite of Passage

We are pleased to release two new MediaStorm projects A Shadow Remains by Phillip Toledano and Rite of Passage by Maggie Steber. Phillip and Maggie are both celebrated photographers who turned their cameras on themselves and the ones closest to them at a time of deep introspection—the end of their parents’ lives. While both originally started photographing these events for their personal albums, their experiences magnified in importance over the years spent with their aging parents. As time passed, caring for their parents brought them through a process of self discovery that taught them as much about themselves as the loved ones for which they were caring. In the end, both Phillip and Maggie were left with bodies of work that relate not only their personal journeys, but speak to universal themes of love, life and family. MediaStorm is proud to have partnered with both Phillip and Maggie to tell their individual…

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MediaStorm Premieres A Shadow Remains by Phillip Toledano and Rite of Passage by Maggie Steber on June 11

We are excited to announce the world premiere of two new MediaStorm films by Phillip Toledano and Maggie Steber to be held on June 11 at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, NY. World Premiere of A Shadow Remains and Rite of Passage Galapagos Art Space 16 Main Street, Brooklyn NY 11201 Doors 6:30pm | Films 7:30pm | Q&A with photographers to follow Free admission | Cash bar | RSVP required to enter Galapagos Art Space is a 21 and over establishment RSVP to the event here. About the Event Phillip and Maggie are both celebrated photographers who turned their cameras on themselves and the ones closest to them at a time of deep introspection—the end of their parents’ lives. While both originally started photographing these events for their personal albums, their experiences magnified in importance over the years spent with their aging parents. As time passed, caring for their parents brought them…

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MediaStorm Receives Best of Photojournalism Awards

We are pleased to announce three MediaStorm projects were honored in the 2012 Best of Photojournalism awards. A Thousand More received first prize in Web Sites: Feature Multimedia Story and Honorable Mention in Web Sites: Best Use of the Web. 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. Surviving the Peace received Honorable Mention in Web Site: Feature Multimedia. Surviving the Peace takes an intimate look at the impact of unexploded bombs left over from the Vietnam war in Laos and profiles the dangerous, yet life saving work, that MAG has undertaken in the country. The Gulf Spill received Honorable Mention in Web Sites: Multimedia Package. On April 20, 2010 an explosion tore through the Deepwater Horizon, an oil…

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