MediaStorm Premieres 7 Films for the Wall St. Journal’s Fifth Annual Innovators Award at the Museum of Modern Art

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MediaStorm produced seven films for the Wall St. Journal Magazine for its fifth annual Innovator Awards at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on November 4th. Seven trailblazing talents were honored for their groundbreaking accomplishments in their respective disciplines. We were thrilled to premiere our seven films on the honorees at this prestigious event. Selected by WSJ. Magazine editors, the honorees were: Richard Serra (Art); Mark Parker (Brand); Thomas Heatherwick (Design); Angelina Jolie Pitt (Entertainment/Film); Miuccia Prada (Fashion); Karl Ove Knausgaard (Literature); and Stewart Butterfield (Technology). Each winner was presented with an award designed by the 2011 Design winner Joris Laarman. The films provide a visual narrative on each of the awardees. They also serve both as record and testimony to the innovator’s work, and at the actual event, were used to introduce each awardee.

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Help Us Celebrate MediaStorm’s 10 Year Anniversary

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MediaStorm will be 10 years old on November 16th. We are humbled to have reached this milestone and incredibly excited about the future! In reflecting back on the past decade we’ve heard some amazing things from our subscribers, clients, contributors and partners. We thought it would be a good idea to offer you an opportunity for you to share your comments as well. What has MediaStorm meant to you? Have any of our stories shifted your world perspective in any way? Have we impacted the way you think about and develop your work? Have you used our online training? Have you found inspiration in any way from our work? What do you hope MediaStorm will do in the future? We’d love to include your thoughts on our digital channels as we move towards celebrating our November 16th anniversary. Please share your comments via video or in writing and send to info@mediastorm.com no…

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Griffin Museum Of Photography Announces 2015 Focus Award Recipients, Including MediaStorm

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The Griffin Museum of Photography announced the recipients of its tenth annual Focus Awards. “This year’s Focus awardees are a combination of local and international photography trendsetters and innovators. The Focus Awards recognize the hard work, dedication and enthusiasm of a select group of enthusiastic, creative individuals and organizations dedicated to the art and business of photography,” says Paula Tognarelli, executive director of the Griffin Museum. This year’s Focus Award recipients are: Lifetime Achievement – Karen Sinsheimer, former Curator of Photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Rising Star – Kat Kiernan, is the Editor-in-Chief of Don’t Take Pictures, a print and online photography publication. Spotlight – MediaStorm For more information and tickets, please visit the Griffin Museum website, call 781-729-1158 or email frances@griffinmuseum.org. Limited tickets ($15) will be available for the November 13th lecture with Brian Storm, followed by the mimosa brunch and focus award ceremony ($85) on November 14,…

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Support MediaStorm’s First Original Film – Fight Hate with Love on Kickstarter Now

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Over the course of a year, MediaStorm has dedicated itself to telling the story of one family trying to come together after a long period of incarceration. Fight Hate with Love is about how the impacts of incarceration, poverty, and racial injustice can tear down the most valuable thing we have -- our family. In an era that shines a spotlight on the terrors of mass incarceration as a whole, Fight Hate with Love takes you intimately through one family’s journey. We’ve done so much already but now we’re in the final stretch of post production and we need your help. Please support us to help make this film a reality and to help us bring it to homes all over America that need to know what it really means to live in an era of mass incarceration.

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MediaStorm Launches New Partnership with Verse

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MediaStorm is thrilled to launch its new partnership with Verse, an immersive interactive storytelling platform, with Connected to the Top, the first of four stories we are launching with Verse. Connected to the Top is about the incredible strength, courage, and passion that propels today’s top climbers to risk their lives for the glory of reaching the world’s greatest heights. In 2012, a team of professional climbers sought out to summit the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest. The expedition commemorated the 50th anniversary of the first American ascent of the mountain. Connected to the Top tells their story.

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