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The Trials of Spring Launches As Cross Media Event Powered by MediaStorm

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:June 8, 2015

The Trials of Spring, a major cross media event that tells the stories of nine women on the front lines of change in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen, launched as a special event on The New York Times homepage on Sunday, June 7th: six shorts will be spotlighted over the course of six days culminating with the World Premiere of the feature documentary at the 2015 Human Rights Watch Film Festival on Friday, June 12th. MediaStorm partnered with the award-winning team at The Trials of Spring, to design and build the project’s website and leverage the MediaStorm Platform to package and distribute the short films. We also developed a digital distribution outreach and social media engagement strategy for the online component of the project. Learn more about how we’re using the power of multimedia storytelling to elevate the voices of women activists in our case study. #DoWomensVoicesMatter? Join the conversation…

‘Shine On’ for Shine On Sierra Leone Now Playing on MediaStorm

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:June 2, 2015

Shine On tells the story of Shine On Sierra Leone (SOSL), an innovative education-based cultural partnership that focuses on social development through personal transformation. Over the past eight years, SOSL has provided 2,800 students with a highly reputable primary education, granted 7,000 women micro-loans, trained 12,000 individuals in computer literacy and 600 individuals in adult literacy, as well as launched a maternal and child health care program for 50,000 individuals. Shine On chronicles SOSL’s evolution from a traditional charity to an organization that fosters personal development as a tool for social transformation. This unique philosophy and pedagogy has had phenomenal results--most notably elevating its primary school from number 736 in the district to number 2. This project was made possible with support from Harbers Studio and Cash & Rocket.

New Era of Motion Graphics at MediaStorm – Guardians of the Forest & 2015 Reel

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:May 18, 2015

MediaStorm's motion graphics department, helmed by Joe Fuller, has kept busy since our 2013 reel. From saving the forest, looking back at USAID’s food for peace program, celebrating world-renown photographers to illuminating a teen’s descent into prostitution; we've used a wide array of techniques to make complex stories accessible and appealing. Today, we are proud to present a film made in partnership with the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) to convey the importance and urgency of the sustainable management of forests. At one time forests dominated Earth’s landmass. Today, less than half of forests remain. Deforestation is a real issue affecting not only our environment, but our survival as a species. Guardians of the Forest explains why our forests are a precious natural resource for everyone and why the answer to protection lies in sustainable management. 2015 Motion Graphics Reel MediaStorm’s 2015 Motion Design Reel highlights the best animation work we’ve created for films and…

MediaStorm Presents the 2015 ICP Infinity Awardee Films

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:May 1, 2015

MediaStorm is pleased to present a film series produced in collaboration with the International Center of Photography with support from Harbers Studios. Since 1985 ICP’s Infinity Awards have brought attention to outstanding achievements in photography by honoring individuals with distinguished careers in the field and identifying future luminaries. The 2015 Infinity Awards films serve as a portrait of some of the important contributors to photography today. Photojournalism: Tomas van Houtryve Tomas van Houtryve wants there to be a permanent visual record of the dawn of the drone age, the period in American history when America started outsourcing their military to flying robots. In order to create this record, Van Houtryve sent his own drone into American skies. Young Photographer: Evgenia Arbugaeva Evgenia Arbugaeva was born in the magical town of Tiksi, Russia. Located in the Arctic, the barren, white landscape influenced Arbugaeva in almost every aspect of her dreamlike photography. Art: Larry…

#NowPlaying: Shiho Fukada and World Press Photo on Multimedia Week Podcast

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:April 6, 2015

Here are two great episodes of the Multimedia Week podcast to start your week:

EP 22 – Interview with Shiho Fukada

Shiho Fukada joins the podcast to discuss her World Press Photo award-winning project Japan’s Disposable Workers. In this interview with DJ Clark, Shiho speaks about how she worked on the photography project and the additional benefits having a multimedia component brings to it.

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