The 19th UNAFF starts tomorrow (October 20-30)

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The 19th UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival) starts tomorrow, October 20th, and is a “can’t-miss-event” for all documentary film fans in the San Francisco Bay area. The festival, one of the oldest documentary film festivals in the country, shares a lot of the goals MediaStorm strives towards in its mission, promoting education, awareness, and social change through images, dialogue and action. UNAFF celebrates the power of documentary films dealing with human rights issues, the environment, racism, women’s issues, universal education, war and peace. The theme of this year's ten day event is Compass for a Better World, and its program includes 60 films from almost 30 different countries, as well as several free panels on issues such as Guns and Society and Art for Social Change. For more information on UNAFF’s year-round events, and the full festival program and schedule, please visit: http://www.unaff.org

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Northwestern University Medill School’s New ‘Media Innovation & Entrepreneurship’ Specialization

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Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications is offering a new specialization around leading, launching, and helping build digital media businesses. Medill’s new Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship Specialization provides an opportunity to "learn what makes media businesses successful, through an interdisciplinary education that encompasses technology, design, content strategy, audience development, analytics and business fundamentals." Details can be found here, and those who are interested are welcome to contact Professor Rich Gordon at richgor@northwestern.edu for additional information.  

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MediaStorm in the News: Boosting Audience Engagement

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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!  

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37th Annual Eugene W. Smith Funds Awards

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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.  

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Worth Watching #153: Stories of Human Kind: A Search for Home

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We are confronted with daily assaults of tragedy in the news–stories of war, migration, and the never-ending election cycle. But rarely do these stories give us the a way to connect, to empathize, and to reimagine our own world. Senain Kheshgi’s new series of short films on the lives of people living in Templehof Refugee Camp in Berlin allows us to do just that. Stories of Human Kind: A Search for Home is a partnership with Save the Children, Johnson & Johnson, and Facebook, and will be distributed by Facebook to over 55 million feeds in the next few weeks. On the series’ launch, Senain says “There are now more than 65 million people forcibly displaced around the world - we must remember to see them as individuals: nurses, small business owners, students - all seeking safety and security.” Thank you Senain for making these powerful stories come to life. Watch the…

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