Story4 is in preproduction with Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI) to do a short documentary, “Silicon Valley Asian American Voices.” The documentary will highlight the historical and current contributions Asian American immigrants have made, identify cultural barriers to the success of immigrants and stimulate discussions of policy across Silicon Valley.

Story4 is in post production of a web documentary, “Lives Interrupted,” for the Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation (ABF) to illuminate stories of the repression and interruption of the lives of students under the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The documentary will examine documented human rights case histories of students imprisoned, tortured or executed for voicing religious or political dissent  since the 1979 revolution.

Health care reform is a hot topic, and Story4 just completed a web documentary for the Health Improvement Partnership of Santa Cruz County (HIP). The documentary highlights the work of the  Safety Net Clinic Coalition in providing high quality, low-cost medical and dental care to the county’s residents. The documentary will be used in public forums and on the HIP and clinic web sites to raise awareness of the role of the clinics in the health of the community. The video was funded by the California Health Care Foundation and the California Endowment.

Story4’s short documentary for Out & Equal Workplace Advocates screened in October at the annual Workplace Summit, before 2,300 attendees. Out & Equal is a San Francisco-based nonprofit that works for workplace equality issues for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, as employees, customers and communities.

More than a hundred years after the Wright brothers were the first to sustain powered controlled flight, the Wright Flyer Project nears the goal of flying a replica of the original airplane. Story4 is in postproduction of a short documentary on the project, sponsored by the Los Angeles Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Executive Director, Geri Migielicz quoted in British Journal of Photography article,  “Perpetual motion” read more..

STORY4 has partnered with the Health Improvement Partnership (HIP) in Santa Cruz County to highlight the impact of the community health clinics in HIP’s Safety Net Clinics Coalition. Through patient stories, the video will showcase the innovative work and quality services of the clinics, and the critical role the clinics play in the County’s health care system.

STORY4 is linked in LENS’ Blogroll with a small group of content organizations and blogs. Lens is the photojournalism blog of The New York Times, with a mission to present the most interesting visual and multimedia reporting, photographs, videos and slide shows. It launched in June.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com

Also included are close relatives of Story4:
MultimediaShooter.com and MercuryNewsPhoto.com

Multimedia Journalists Discover Life After Newspapers
Non-profits, NGOs and corporations are looking for storytellers, and former newspaper photographers are answering the call.
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Nonprofits and foundations – check this out! The tired written project report: reinvented as engaging web video!

Digital News Initiative UC Berkeley from richard hernandez on Vimeo.

Richard Koci Hernandez applied his creative visual thinking to a project report for the UC-Berkeley Journalism School’s Digital News Initiative. Richard is a Ford Foundation Fellow at the school and created this video as a progress report for his first semester.