JUNO Award Winning Canadian Pop Star Kiesza Announces Global Video Project Storm To Support Frontline Workers
TORONTO, ON – Today, JUNO Award Winning, Platinum selling Canadian pop star Kiesza releases an incredible, global music video project entitled ‘Storm’. Written in isolation, ‘Storm’ compelled award-winning directors Rocky Romano and Miranda Winters to reach out to Kiesza to work with her to create a powerful short film to help first responders amid the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘Storm’ is also released to all digital streaming platforms today.
Watch the powerful video here.
“I wrote “Storm” late one night, while in lockdown, and posted it on my Instagram account the next day. From there everything snowballed, and I joined forces with Winters Rock Entertainment and Pond5 to create this incredible aerial video of the world during Covid-19. said Kiesza. “It has been so inspiring to me, to feel the unity that this pandemic has created. Covid-19 knows no borders, and as result, it has brought us together as a world. And at the very least, everyone who made an effort to slow down the spread of the virus, can walk out of this knowing that they saved a life.”
Over 100 filmmakers donated footage from 27 countries, including drone footage of Kiesza on the empty shores of Toronto. Other countries featured in the music video include Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Mexico, South Africa, United Kingdom and more.
The short film, produced by Winters Rock Entertainment, will serve as a call to action for fans– encouraging them to donate to Frontline Care, dedicated to providing rest and care units for first responders in the fight against COVID-19, via their donation site TeamStorm.org. Frontline Care is a fiscally sponsored project by 501(c)(3) Paint The World. Kiesza will lead the initiative titled #TeamStorm that will drive fans to TeamStorm.org where they can donate to build JUPE REST units for frontline workers.
“During these challenging times, it is our mission to make a difference, to help our first responders, and to unite the world as a whole, as one,” said Rocky Romano & Miranda Winters, Directors of Storm.
The Frontline Initiative will implement healthcare worker rest units built by Jupe Health. Jupe Health works with hospitals, non-profits and rural health communities to provide rest and care units in the fight against COVID-19. Their rest units are created by rocket and electric vehicle engineers, designed and furnished by America’s greatest designers, and wrapped with artwork by some of the worlds’ top graphic artists.
Kiesza worked remotely with musician/producer Chris Malinchak to complete the final version of the song.
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About JUPE Health
JUPE Health is a first-of-its-kind model, designed by both ER physicians and healthcare designers to optimize and increase care capacity. A patent-pending, internet-of-things enabled, all JUPE treatment spaces include a bed and are network-ready with air monitoring, climate control, and noise-reducing technologies. With most short-term healthcare efforts focused on dwindling medical supplies and masks, JUPE moved quickly in prototyping three health units with foresight into the capacity crisis, bringing mobile solutions forward for the places of highest need.
About Winters Rock Entertainment
Founded in 2015 and led by the award-winning creative team of Miranda Winters and Rocky Romano, Los Angeles based Winters Rock Entertainment is a leading producer of thought provoking and cinematically stunning non-fiction content. Pioneers in the UHD unscripted space, the team at WRE has created and produced 8 television series currently airing in over 200 million homes in 45 countries around the world. Their work focuses on the motivations and boundaries of the human spirit and spans from the unforgiving streets of Los Angeles, California (LAPD K-9 Division) to the massive waves of Nazaré, Portugal (Red Chargers). The team has the unique ability to provide audiences with a behind the scenes look at some of the most tight-knit and seldom seen communities on the planet. From the men and women that push the limits of human flight (Beyond The Edge), to the struggles and recovery of the Godfather of the Westsiders, a surfing brotherhood that ruled the Westside of Santa Cruz, California (Learning to Breathe), and currently to the tragic and inspiring story of professional MMA fighter Marcus Kowal forced to take on a corrupt system after losing his son to a drunk driver (Letters to Liam), they continues to push the level of documentary film and doc-series storytelling. Their work has been featured on HBO, ABC, NBC, ESPN, RTL, SKY, FOX, FUEL TV, Outside TV, Insight, DirecTV, DirecTV Latin, and 20th Century Fox.
