RYOT

Not to be confused with ryot.
RYOT
Founded 2012
Founders Bryn Mooser, David Darg, Martha Rogers
Location
Origins Los Angeles
Owner AOL
(Verizon)
Key people
 Bryn Mooser, David Darg, Molly Swenson, Martha Rogers, Gareth Seltzer
Subsidiaries RYOT Studio, RYOT Films, RYOT Foundation
Employees
25
Slogan Every Story Lets You Take Action, Become The News, Become The Story
Website http://www.ryot.org

RYOT is an immersive media company founded in 2012 based in Los Angeles. As humanitarian aid workers, first responders and filmmakers, RYOT founders Bryn Mooser, David Darg and Martha Rogers spotlight the world’s key global and social issues, creating innovative 360° and virtual reality experiences for viewers. From being on the ground in a Syrian war zone to profiling the destruction of the Nepal earthquake, their films span five continents and profile countries in need, bringing new and innovative stories back to the stateside audience. They have received numerous awards for filmmaking, including an 2016 Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Short.As of 2016, it a unit of Huffington Post, a subsidiary of AOL, a division of Verizon[1]

Background

Bryn Mooser and David Darg, the two co-founders of RYOT, met in Haiti during the weeks after the earthquake of January 2010. Both were in the country doing humanitarian work, Mooser with Artists for Peace and Justice, to build a school, and Darg with Operation Blessing, to build water and sanitation systems. After working alongside each other and becoming friends, Mooser and Darg had the idea to create a baseball league for the young boys of the Tabarre neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.[2][3]

Soon after, Mooser and Darg returned home to America and launched RYOT News.[3] The founding investor is Canadian Martha Rogers, who is also a Board Member and co-founder. Gareth Seltzer funded RYOT at its origination as well and serves on its board.

“Our work in Haiti over the last three years has been really important to us and our hearts will always be there,” Mooser said. “We return often and plan to in the future, but now we’re ready to use the power of the news to effect change all over the world.”[2]

Celebrity activists Olivia Wilde, Ian Somerhalder and Sophia Bush are all supporters of RYOT and endorse their efforts worldwide.

Subcategories

RYOT Studio is an in-house agency, dedicated to creating media campaigns. RYOT Studio produces virtual reality / 360 video, documentary films, events, and social media strategy for nonprofits and brand partners including The New York Times,[4] NPR,[5] The Associated Press,[6] Huffington Post[7] and Sierra Club.[8]

RYOT Films creates award-winning documentaries, web content, and narrative feature films about important world issues. RYOT Film Body Team 12 was nominated for an Oscar in 2015.[9]

RYOT Foundation works in post-disaster zones all over the world, running youth sports programs in Haiti and Senegal, rebuilding fishing villages in the Philippines and fostering music education in the Arctic.

Filmography

Year Film Director Release Date
2011 Sun City Picture House David Darg October 15, 2011
2012 Baseball in the Time of Cholera David Darg, Bryn Mooser April 21, 2012
2013 The Rider and the Storm David Darg, Bryn Mooser 2013
2014 Meet the Hitlers Matthew Ogens October 18, 2014
2014 Mitimetallica David Darg, Bryn Mooser December 5, 2014
2014 Positive Linus Ignatius 2014
2015 Gardeners of Eden Austin Peck, Anneliese Vandenberg April 24, 2015
2015 Body Team 12 David Darg April 19, 2015
2015 Sailing a Sinking Sea Olivia Wyatt March 14, 2015
2015 Sweet Micky For President Ben Patterson January 24, 2015
2015 The Painter of Jalouzi Bryn Mooser September 25, 2015
2015 Salam Neighbor Zach Ingrasci, Chris Temple June 20, 2015
2016 El Púgil Angel Manuel Soto 2016

Mooser and Darg documented their work with the young boys in Haiti in their Tribeca award winning film, “Baseball in the Time of Cholera,” which follows the rise of the Tabarre Tigers and the concurrent outbreak of Cholera in Haiti. The film played at film festivals around the world and finished with a special Congressional screening in Washington, D.C.[10]

A year later, Mooser and Darg, debuted their third film at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, a documentary short titled, "The Rider and The Storm," which chronicles a New York surfer who lost everything in the Breezy Point fires during Hurricane Sandy.[11][12][13]

Executive Produced by Olivia Wilde and Paul Allen, RYOT's Oscar Nominated "Body Team 12" profiles a young Liberian health worker who collects the bodies of the dead in Monrovia at the height of the Ebola outbreak in 2014, and won "Best Short Documentary" at Tribeca Film Festival 2015.[14] It will debut on HBO in February 2016.[15]

"The Painter of Jalouzi" was the first documentary to be shot entirely on an iPhone 6s Plus.

Awards and Nominations

RYOT Films was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short for Body Team 12 in January 2016. Body Team 12 was also honored at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Mountainfilm Festival, the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and the Austin Film Festival for Best Documentary Short.

References

  1. ↑ https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/20/verizons-aols-huffington-post-acquires-virtual-reality-studio-ryot/
  2. 1 2 "The Little League at the End of the World". Esquireaccessdate=January 29, 2015. November 29, 2012.
  3. 1 2 Strochlic, Nina (July 25, 2013). "New Site RYOT Combines Breaking News With Activism. By merging activism with breaking news, RYOT aims to spur its readers to take action on some of the world's most pressing issues.". The Daily Beast. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
  4. ↑ "NYT VR Releases New 360 Film 10 Shots Across The Border | VRFocus". VRFocus. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
  5. ↑ "Wilco In 360: Behind The Scenes At NPR Music's Tiny Desk". NPR.org. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
  6. ↑ "Virtual Reality Journalism Is Coming To The Associated Press". Fast Company. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
  7. ↑ "Join Susan Sarandon In Greece At The Refugee Crisis Frontlines". The Crossing. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
  8. ↑ "Jared Leto Tours The Arctic In A New Virtual Reality Climate Change Campaign". Co.Create. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
  9. ↑ "Body Team 12 - Oscar Nominees 2015".
  10. ↑ "Baseball in the Time of Cholera". Huffington Post. April 18, 2012.
  11. ↑ http://tribecafilm.com/filmguide/archive/513e62abc07f5d1ef9000043-the-rider-and-the-storm
  12. ↑ Bischof, Jackie (April 18, 2013). "At Tribeca, Profiling Life After Sandy". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
  13. ↑ Anderson, John (February 1, 2013). "Documentaries Thrive in Sandy's Ruins". New York Times. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
  14. ↑ "Why You Need To See This Olivia Wilde-Produced Ebola Documentary". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  15. ↑ "'Body Team 12': HBO Documentary Films Acquires Short Doc". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
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