{"id":3202,"date":"2019-07-25T13:57:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T13:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2019\/07\/25\/adventist-media-centers-join-hands-in-new-international-cross-media-project\/"},"modified":"2019-07-25T13:57:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T13:57:08","slug":"adventist-media-centers-join-hands-in-new-international-cross-media-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/adventist-media-centers-join-hands-in-new-international-cross-media-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventist Media Centers Join Hands in New International Cross-Media Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

25 July 2019 | Miami, United States [Libna Stevens, Inter-American Division News with ted<\/em>NEWS]  <\/p>\n

\u201cFor the past three years the two European Divisions have worked in partnership via GAi<\/em>N Europe to produce a range of media resources including \u2018This is my Mission\u2019, Global Refugee Sabbath, and \u2018Fathers\u2019. The latest project, \u2018Uncertainty\u2019, is the most ambitious yet, and involves even more studios across the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"uncertainty<\/a>A group of media professionals from across the Seventh-day Adventist Church around the world met recently to work on a cross-media project that will bring hope to anyone facing uncertainty in their lives.<\/p>\n

The select group from several Adventist media centres spent time brainstorming, praying, and shaping the creative project during two days of meetings at the Inter-American Division headquarters in Miami, Florida, United States, July 9-10, 2019.<\/p>\n

\"adrian<\/a>\u201cUncertainty is an existential theme that is present in any person\u2019s life today, regardless of reason or religion, so we have an opportunity to help, guide, and inspire audiences, showing them the importance of the message of hope in which we live,\u201d said Adrian Dure, overall coordinator of the cross-media project and documentary film director from Stimme der Hoffnung, the Adventist Church\u2019s European media centre, located in Germany.<\/p>\n

The international cross-media project will show the ways that uncertainty plays a part in the life of several individuals, along with methods of dealing with uncertainty and the growth that it can bring as a result, Dure said. It will include several types of media projects, including an intercultural documentary film composed of stories from different regions; a book; a campaign of short video clips for social media; and two special and exclusive productions from the North American Division and the South American Division, all intertwined with biblical principles, Dure said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiving one day at a time is based on biblical values and principles,\u201d Dure added. \u201cKnowing that \u2018we are not alone\u2019 in this world is another biblical principle that the project will highlight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"uncertainty<\/a>The new network project follows in the wake of the cross-media project called Fathers<\/em>, an international Adventist film media collaboration project that highlights the role of fathers, which premiered earlier in 2019 in Amman, Jordan, during the church\u2019s Global Adventist Internet Network (GAi<\/em>N) Conference. Before the Fathers<\/em> production, the Adventist media network had used the same model of collaboration among church media centres to make a film called REST \u2014 a documentary about the Sabbath.<\/p>\n

Across Media<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dure said that this year\u2019s Uncertainty<\/em> network project grew out of a brainstorming session at a GAi<\/em>N Europe meeting in Jordan that brought out 100 topics for this year\u2019s media collaboration. \u201cWe discussed the topics in group sessions and meetings and agreed to address the issue of uncertainties as our main target next,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The eight-month international cross-media project uses a potluck-style collaboration, in which several media centres will produce stories enriching the storytelling film, Dure said. The project is expected to be completed by March 2020, in time for the next GAi<\/em>N Europe Conference to be held in April.<\/p>\n

\"klaus\u201cAlthough we come from different divisions, we are representing media in doing this cross-media project,\u201d said Klaus Popa, director of Stimme der Hoffnung, who is also coordinating the production of the Uncertainty<\/em> cross-media project.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are a core team leading in the path of service, working together to show that uncertainty is a part of life, that we can have faith through uncertainty, that God transforms certain uncertainties into certainties, and that every moment of uncertainty is a way to grow,\u201d Popa pointed out to attendees as he led group sessions during the two-day meetings.<\/p>\n

\"rachel<\/a>Part of the network project will include stories for a short film put together by the South American Division; a short documentary film about the uncertainty students face, produced by the North American Division; a book on facing uncertainty, coordinated by Norel Iacob, chief editor of Signs of the Times magazine in Romania; and a series of campaign spots for television and social media platforms by the Inter-American Division.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to see this team spirit,\u201d Dure said. \u201cWe come from different cultures and regions, and we think different[ly], but through this project, we are connected, all of us workers for God, as one team, aspiring to become better persons in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Across Media Centres<\/strong><\/p>\n

Project team members created a timeline for the project, as well as marketing and distribution strategies and ways of increasing communication among the collaborators to make the project a reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is incredibly exciting that we can come together as partners to accomplish something that individually we could not do, using the medium of film and print to connect with an audience that has neglected us in the past,\u201d said Julio Mu\u00f1oz, associate communication director for the North American Division. \u201cWe are so accustomed to working in our units, cities, and territories that we miss out on working with talented people,\u201d he said. Mu\u00f1oz is coordinating the documentary film with production coordinator Rachel Scribner and several Adventist university media centres in North America.<\/p>\n

For Abel M\u00e1rquez, communication director for the Inter-American Division, collaborating on such a film project through several media centres around the world and having it available on so many platforms is very exciting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to see how the technical and creative side will come together in this project and, what\u2019s more, that the message in the film will be more accessible and far-reaching for many people,\u201d he said. M\u00e1rquez is coordinating the global clips campaign with Jorge Diaz Rincon of Montemorelos University and the many production centres across the territory in Inter-America.<\/p>\n

In the coming weeks, researchers, writers, interviewers, and storytellers will take part in the cross-media project, Dure said.<\/p>\n

The original version<\/a> of this story was posted on the Inter-American Division news site<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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