New MediaStorm Project Coming Soon: Rite of Passage by Maggie Steber

MediaStorm is collaborating with photographer Maggie Steber on a Kickstarter campaign to produce and distribute her new project Rite of Passage, a short documentary about her mother's struggle with dementia. Visit the Kickstarter campaign now. The Project Maggie Steber was an only child. Madje Steber was a single parent. They were all the family they had and it wasn't easy. Madje was divorced by the time Maggie was just six months old. Strong and independent, Madje raised her daughter in Austin, Texas. She had a keen awareness about what others might be thinking at a time when being a young single mother was often viewed as a scarlet letter. Their tiny house had strict rules and a formality that rubbed Maggie the wrong way, especially during her teenage years. Their relationship was strained with arguments and threats to move out. At the age of twenty-one, Maggie finally did. "I had to leave,"…

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