Help Fiasco with their latest (ahem) Fiasco

Stephan here with Fiasco Media which (was) in the lovely River Arts District of Asheville, NC. After a month of working documenting this historic, catastrophic, life changing hurricane, it's probably past time to talk about how Fiasco Media fared throughout the flooding...as if the cover photo doesn't give it away.

We had just moved out of our South Slope studio not even 2 months before the hurricane hit and were settling into our shared space with Hi Wire Brewing in the River Arts District (fun how everyone gasps when you say river arts district now). We were boots on the ground with cameras in hand at 7am when the sun rose and the flooding starting really cranking up on the morning of the storm, and up into the evening we had drones in the air documenting much of what you've seen on news channels, social media, tv, magazines, what have you. Most of it we've donated to get awareness out, because at the end of the day, we lost our studio which is not comparable to what we've seen out there on the ground shooting for news organizations, as well as relief operations with American Red Cross.

We couldn't possibly compare losing 35k worth of equipment, hard drives, lighting, editing gear, and personal items to losing a place of living, but it is our livelihood. We've had to spend thousands on data recovery to save hard drives with irreplaceable galleries and new computers just so we could edit the footage that we've got. All to say:

DAMN we are tired and not above asking for a little bit of help. If you have it in your big ol hearts to help us out after losing all that and most of our gigs from the busiest month of the year, we sure would appreciate it. Or better yet: share it with your rich friends and tell them that we saved an entire boat of kittens, whatever it takes to keep your favorite video and photo team in Asheville from fleeing the country and starting a new life in South America.

The alternative is hiring us, because our team of 5 is taking any and all work we can right now with the equipment we have, which is pretty much all of our shooting equipment minus any studio stuff. We are a full service video/photo/drone production agency and are a multi Emmy award winning production crew. So yeah...we're here for whatever you need.

Thanks everyone for what you're doing to get WNC back on it's feet. Fiasco is here for you if you need us!