Today MediaStorm has joined the Docuseek2 streaming platform. Docuseek2 is the premiere streaming source for independent, environmental and social-issue documentaries for the educational market, with more than 800 films from Bullfrog Films®, Icarus Films (including The Fanlight Collection and dGenerate Films), Kartemquin Films, KimStim, the National Film Board of Canada, Terra Nova Films, Scorpion TV, and now MediaStorm. The MediaStorm collection of 39 films is immediately available for higher-education streaming, exclusively on Docuseek2, click here: http://docuseek2.com/ds-mstorm All of MediaStorm films are also still available for purchase on DVD and digital file, with PPR or DSL, to educational institutions though MediaStorm’s website. For more info contact edu@mediastorm.com.

No Film School, an awesome community of filmmakers and storytellers, recently posted an article covering IFP Film Week's Interactive Storytelling Workshop, featuring Samia Khan. We were thrilled to be part of a conversation with Alex Vlak of Eko and Jeremy Chilnick of Warrior Poets on new frontiers in storytelling. Check it out here!  

The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant, selected from over 300 worldwide submissions, is presented annually to photographers whose work carries forward the tradition practiced by Eugene Smith during his 45-year photojournalism career. The grant enables recipients to undertake and complete worthy photojournalistic projects. This year's ceremony will be held on Thursday, October 13, at 7pm at the School of Visual Arts Theater in New York City. For more information and to RSVP, please click here. This annual event honors one of the greatest photojournalists in the history of photography and also honors those who continue to tell the stories of the human spirit and condition from around the world.  If you love photography, or have an appreciation for the power and impact photography has on society, you will want to be here.