MediaStorm is hiring! We're looking for fierce, talented, and eager people to join our bi-coastal team. We’re seeking an Editor/Producer and Social Media and Operations Manager. Deadline to apply is May 20. For the past fourteen years, MediaStorm has worked with filmmakers, interactive designers, technologists. and a diverse range of clients to create short films with big impact. We are leaders in the field of interactive design and storytelling, and our success is all about our community. We are driven by a desire to create the best stories and to work with partners who share our values. Whether it’s in our client work or our collaborations with other artists, we dedicate ourselves fully to the art of the story.   Our filmmaking and editing curriculum, which we developed based on our own process, is now used at dozens of universities. Our goal is to continue to develop curriculum that advances our knowledge…

Join Samia Khan, Director of Partnership Development at MediaStorm, for a conversation on intersectional feminism on International Women's Day this Friday March 8 in NYC. This event features leaders from various industries talking about intersectional feminism and why we need this to integrate this lens to all of our work. The other incredible panelists include Erica Rose, Guru Jagat, Dr. Victoria Moran, Genevieve Roth, Mariam Al Qassimi and Latham Thomas. The Deets: Friday, March 8, 2019 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm Located at RA MA Institute New York 125 Stanton Street NY, NY, 10002   And live on RAMA-TV.com 

2019 marks our twelfth year of training at MediaStorm. Each year our masterclasses attract leading industry professionals looking to advance their multimedia and storytelling skills. Over 250 participants have come through our doors and we continue to be humbled by how much they take away from the experience. Elliot Blumberg, a journalist and documentary storytellers, described our Methodology Workshop as an "awakening in how to approach documentary storytelling". The December 2018 Methodology Workshop Crew in DUMBO, Brooklyn  In 2019 we’ll be offering three Methodology masterclasses as well as a One-Day Masterclass in Brooklyn, NY. Please note our new dates as we have added a Methodology Workshop to our schedule in March. We are looking forward to another exciting, innovative and challenging year. We hope you’ll be able to join us. MediaStorm Masterclass Dates 2019 March 26-29 Methodology Masterclass May 25 One-day Masterclass June 18-21 Methodology Masterclass Dec. 17-20 Methodology Masterclass All classes will take place in Brooklyn, at POV…

The 2019 CatchLight Fellowship is now open. This year includes a fourth $30,000 grant open to all innovative leaders in visual storytelling: long-form storytellers with impactful projects as well as leaders committed to advancing and growing the field of visual storytelling. The grant applications are due before midnight PST on February 18, 2019. In addition to financial grants, the CatchLight Fellowship offers support for project development and amplification, as well as mentorship opportunities through its vibrant community of creative thought leaders across media, art, and entrepreneurship. Applications can be submitted here. The selected Fellows will be announced during the CatchLight Spring Symposium at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco April 7, 2019. 

Welcome to Northern Exposure–an anything-but-the-same-old conference  about photography, video and storytelling at the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, taking place February 8-10. Northern Exposure is a workshop and get-together designed to bring professional visual journalists, students and others interested in photography together to learn, network and explore, hosted at the University of Minnesota Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication. And during the weekend, VisualMN will have open judging for the college photojournalism contest and the award ceremony for the professional and college contests. Entry information soon! Northern Exposure is a revival of the former Minnesota Photojournalism Symposium, inspired by R. Smith and Pat Schuneman. Smitty was a faculty member at the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication from 1960–1977 and was instrumental in creating the School’s photojournalism programs. Smitty and his wife Pat gave the University of Minnesota an endowment to…