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Obama Announces $90 Million to Clear Laos’ Unexploded Bombs

Post author:MediaStorm
Post published:September 6, 2016

According to CNN, "President Barack Obama said Tuesday that US has an 'obligation' to help Laos recover from a brutal secret bombing campaign that destroyed parts of the Southeast Asian nation." While visiting the country's capital, Obama pledged $90 million dollars to clear millions of unexploded ordinances. The joint effort will take three years. To learn more, please check out Mediastorm's collaboration with the Mines Advisory Group (MAG), Surviving the Peace: Laos

MediaStorm Launches Two New Films for Verse

Post author:MediaStorm
Post published:February 29, 2016

We are so pleased to announce the launch of two new films with Verse, an immersive interactive storytelling platform. The Last Move and Life After Water are part of a four-story partnership that pairs the MediaStorm storytelling ethos with Verse’s innovative platform. Both films were recently honored by Photographer of the Year International, one of the oldest and most prestigious photojournalism organizations in the world. The Last Move received third place in Documentary Journalism while Life After Water received the Award of Excellence for Multimedia Issue Reporting. MediaStorm’s Andrew Michael Ellis was also recognized as Multimedia Photographer of the Year. Congratulations to all our partners who make this work possible, our fellow POYi winners and nominees, and you, our audience, for continuing to support, inspire, and encourage us. The Last Move: Michael Thomasson has devoted his life to video games. It’s been his passion and his obsession for more than three decades.…

MediaStorm’s Fight Hate with Love Reaches Kickstarter Goal!

Post author:Brian Storm
Post published:December 2, 2015

Thank you to everyone who pledged support for MediaStorm’s Kickstarter campaign for Fight Hate with Love! Your support allows us to begin the next phase of post-production. It allows us to take this film from rough cut to fine cut, and we are so grateful for your support and your belief in us. This has been such an important month for us at MediaStorm and we owe it all to you, our fans and supporters. A decade of storytelling has led us to this moment - the creation of our first original film, Fight Hate with Love. We are eager to get back to work, finish what we started over a year ago, and give you the opportunity to watch the story of one family trying to come together and heal itself from the traumas and scars of incarceration. We’d like to give a very special shout-out to Howard and Sheri Schultz…

United in the Fight: Films for World AIDS Day

Post author:MediaStorm
Post published:December 1, 2015

Thirty years after the first cases of HIV, the World Health Organization estimates 35 million people worldwide are currently living with HIV/AIDS. Of these, 3.2 million are children under the age of 15. Today we commemorate World AIDS Day by remembering those who have succumbed to the virus and supporting our amazing collaborators working to treat and prevent this destructive disease. AIDS and Family is Kristen Ashburn's intimate portrait of African mothers, fathers and children being crushed by AIDS. Ashburn's work connects us to these people deeply; we learn that only through such connection is hope possible. GAIA takes the medical breakthroughs of the developed world and brings them to The Far End of the Road. Their focus is one district in Malawi where 1 out of 6 adults are HIV-positive and healthcare can be hours away. 24,000 children under the age of five will die today, many from preventable diseases. In 2009, Save the…

Remembering Our Veterans: Stories of Service by MediaStorm

Post author:MediaStorm
Post published:November 11, 2015

MediaStorm is committed to developing in-depth, quality stories on the most important issues of our time, and perhaps none has touched us as deeply as those of our country’s veterans. In the last ten years, we have developed four films on veterans that explore loss, grief, hope, and the possibility of change. We believe that storytelling replaces anonymity and silence with empathy and information. Stories of veterans and their families give people insight into both what their lives look like outside of their services; and how service has impacted their lives. We hope that our stories help audiences think critically and compassionately about what it means to send our young men and women to war. We are so grateful to every veteran who has shared his or her story with us and we hope that telling your stories has been healing and helpful in some way. We celebrate the innovations of returning…