Workshop Participants
Alexandra Marvar
Film Distribution & Marketing Strategist
Alexandra Marvar is a New York City-based writer and marketer with a focus in film and video distribution and four years of director-level marketing and content strategy experience at arts, media, and technology start-ups. Her background in multimedia storytelling and documentary work began at the Salt Institute in 2006, and since, her work has appeared in VanityFair.com, GOOD magazine, NPR Music and more on subjects including hydropower controversy in Kurdistan, tsunami tourism in Sumatra, and humanitarian clowning in Iquitos, Peru. She co-founded the national arts and healthcare non-profit O+ Festival ( www.opositivefestival.org) in 2010, and now serves on the Board of Directors for O+ Festival as well as the Board of Advisors for the Esopus Foundation.
Alexandra participated in the June 2015 MediaStorm Methodology Workshop. She had the following to say about her experience:
I learned a tremendous amount about what happens on the production side of digital storytelling—essential information if I am going to engage with these professionals to tell sophisticated stories in my field: public health. I would encourage potential participants not to be intimidated by a lack of technical knowledge. If you have a good grounding in narrative storytelling and a focused sense of purpose, you will come away with a lot of useful information.