The Global Governance Monitor: Public Health is the fifth installment of the Council on Foreign Relations Global Monitor. I produced the six-minute overview.

Driftless: Stories from Iowa by Danny Wilcox Frazier was nominated in the New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Documentaries category.

Surviving the Tsunami: Stories of Hope was nominated in the New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Current News Coverage category.

Congratulations also go out to my good friend and former colleague Bob Sacha whose MediaStorm collaboration with Reuters, Times of Crisis, was also nominated in the New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Current News Coverage category.

The project includes brilliant interactivity designed by Tim Klimowicz.

For a full list of nominees see the Emmy Award website.

In my haste to announce my new film Three Women, I neglected to post two other projects recently released on MediaStorm.

The first is Lisa Robinson’s Snowbound, which I produced and edited. The project was a bit of a departure as it’s the first non-narrative piece I’ve produced at MediaStorm.

From the description:

Snowbound explores the mystery of a winter landscape. This journey may lead one to discover a sense of peace in an often uncharted world.

View Snowbound here.

The second project is Airsick by Lucas Oleniuk. This piece was originally produced by the Toronto Star. At MediaStorm, I re-edited a handful of scenes and helped oversee the creation of new titles by the abundantly talented James Gundersen.

See Airsick here.

Surviving the Tsunami was named Best Web Special Feature, less than 1 million monthly visitors, by Editor & Publisher.

The project was a co-production between MediaStorm, Rueters and The Red Cross. I produced and edited the stories section.

You can view Surviving the Tsunami here.

Congratulations to all the winners.

Danny Wilcox Frazier’s Driftless, which I produced and edited received third place in BOP’s Documentary Video category.

Surviving the Tsunami, a MediaStorm co-production with Reuters and the Red Cross that I also produced and edited picked up second place for News or Feature Multimedia Package.

Family Koctail, a project I produced for MediaStorm’s Advanced Multimedia Reporting Workshop was honored with first place in the Feature Video category.

Finally, Hold Out, another piece I produced for the MediaStorm workshop received Honorable Mention in the same category.

Also check out two winning pieces produced by my friends and former colleagues, Bob Sacha and Chad Stevens.

For the sixth MediaStorm Advanced Multimedia Reporting Workshop, I had the good fortune to work with Gillian Laub, Elena Ghanotakis, Henrik Björnsson, and Laura Varma.

Elena reported, Henrik edited, Gillian made some beautiful imagery and Laura did so much than her official role as observer suggests.

I was also assisted by the multi-talented Brad Horn who contributed greatly to the story’s structure.

About the project:

Virginia Gandee’s brilliant red hair and dozen tattoos belie the reality of this 22-year-old’s life. Inside her family’s Staten Island trailer her caregiving goes far beyond the love she has for her daughter.

You can watch Take Care here along with two other great workshop pieces: Close to Home and Johnnie Footman, New York City’s 90-year-old cabbie.

Danny Wilcox Frazier’s Driftless, which I produced and edited at MediaStorm, received second place in POYi’s Documentary Project of the Year category.

My friend and former colleague Bob Sacha won first place for Times of a Crisis, a MediaStorm collaboration with Reuters.

See Driftless in its entirety here.

The talk is free and open to the public. If you’re around, come by and say hello.

For more information see the Ithaca website, here.

In addition to the MediaStorm store, DVDs are now available on Amazon.

Get yours here.

I produced the stories section for Surviving the Tsunami: Stories of Hope.

From the MediaStorm blog:

MediaStorm along with Thomson Reuters Foundation and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) announce Surviving the Tsunami: Stories of Hope. The project marks the fifth anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami.Combining imagery by Reuters photojournalists with eyewitness testimony and interactive graphics, the documentary reveals the strength of the human spirit in the face of catastrophe. These are stories of compassion and hope.

See the project here: http://tsunami.trust.org