The Paley Center for Media has announced a call for entries for its celebrated Art of the Documentary Pitch Workshop, which will be held at the Paley Center in New York on Monday, November 6, 2017. This program offers a $5,000 grant from A&E IndieFilms for an unfinished or work-in-progress documentary from an emerging filmmaker (someone with two or less credits for directing feature documentary films, whether or not those films have been released). In this workshop/competition—now in its fourteenth year—a panel of documentary executives and producers discuss the process of developing a documentary and will hear and evaluate pitches from up to five pre-selected up-and-coming filmmakers who are hoping to sell either a nonfiction concept or a documentary work-in-progress. The winner of the pitch competition in November will receive a $5,000 grant to be used towards the completion of their project. Complete submission guidelines and entry forms can be found here.  

  The MediaStorm Online Training program offers a simple way for educational institutions to use our acclaimed training in their classrooms. In just three easy steps, we'll have your students learning from our award-winning staff. Notable institutions like the University of Missouri, University of Iowa, and Northern Arizona University have already made it a regular part of their curriculum. TESTIMONIALS This is what some of our happy faculty users have to say: “I started using MediaStorm's Online Training videos as a part of a flipped classroom, so that students could learn the "how-to" outside of class, allowing for more hands-on learning and discussion during class sessions. It's been an invaluable set of tools that reach and engage students with varying skills. The support and service from MediaStorm is excellent, which encourages me to continue to be a loyal client.” -Mikki K. Harris, Assistant Professor, Journalism and Sports Program at Morehouse College (current); Assistant…

We are thrilled to welcome Greg Harris, our new Creative Director, to the MediaStorm family. This is actually Greg's second tour with us. Greg and I have a long history. He was at MediaStorm in 2007 as our first Creative Director. We worked together at Microsoft/MSNBC in the 90's as well as through various collaborations with MetaStories, Brightcove and Daily Interactive Networks with the visonary Brian Monnin. Greg is a rare talent and a terrific person. He will be leading our efforts in interactive storytelling and the redesign of our offerings across all channels. I can’t think of a better partner for us to have as we move to next phase of MediaStorm. Welcome aboard (again) Greg! On joining the team Greg says: MediaStorm has assembled an amazing team of very talented people and I’m very excited to be working with team again. I’m looking forward to contributing the design and production of stories and…

The Macon Film Festival in historic Macon, Georgia, often called the “friendliest film festival” by filmmakers, recently announced their official 2017 line-up, which includes MediaStorm’s feature documentary The Distance Between Us. The film will be in competition in the documentary section, and also eligible for an audience award. The Distance Between Us, an intimate film about the relationship between adult twin brothers Chris and Nick, one of whom was born with cerebral palsy, will screen twice, on Saturday July 22nd at 5:15pm, and on Sunday July 23rd at 3:30pm, both at Theater Macon.  We hope you will check out the film on the big screen if you are in the area, and look out for it on DVD and digitally later this Fall.  To receive regular updates and notification about this film’s availability, please make sure to sign up to our newsletter.