Film Your Issue is a global short video competition aimed at giving young people a voice.
Open to everyone 14-24 globally, FYI - Film Your Issue - is an unprecedented, ambitious outreach to young Americans to engage them in the public dialogue about pressing issues of importance, locally or nationally. Entries are posted on MySpace and the Film Your Issue website, and prizes include internships at respected media organizations. Winners are selected by an esteemed panel of industry professionals.
Watch the 2008 winners! Link TV is airing the winners, and you can also watch them right here!
About the Films:
Sometimes the simplest messages are the most powerful, as Elizabeth Klein demonstrates in this short about global warming, which uses a child-like view of a serious problem.
Ian Rojas moved from Guatemala to South Carolina at the age of 17 and learned to speak English within four months. His film is inspired by the fact that education should not be taken for granted. When there is the lack of educational opportunities too many students drop out, just like the underage Guatemalan children working low level jobs in order to support their education and family.
This video was created by 2-cent, a group of New Orleans college students who collectively make projects aimed at inspiring change within the young generation. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, they noticed that the devastated lower 9th Ward was becoming a tourist destination. This is their response.
Jacob Soboroff asks: when America ranks 139th of 172 countries in voter participation, why do we vote on Tuesday, smack in the middle of the work week? Jacob, 24, is a Los Angeles native, and is Executive Director of Why Tuesday?, a non-partisan and non-profit effort to increase voter participation.
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