What's Your Issue?
Film Your Issue 2010 Competition launches
3/12/2010
Think you have a solution to problems with the environment, economic recession, education, healthcare, human/equal rights, national security/defense, poverty, public service or technology? The What’s Your Issue Foundation is looking for project-solution ideas to show to the Obama administration, Youtube, Apple, Tom Brokaw, Yoko Ono and many others.
Film Your Issue at
www.youtube.com/filmyourissue
or submit it through a song at
www.youtube.com/whatsyourissuemusic
.
The Film Your Issue competition, in its 5th year, is looking for solution-project ideas to front-burner issues from young adults 14 to 24 in a 3-minute video format, with accompanying one-sheet description.
Submission is open through April 19. Winners will be selected by both a VIP Jury and public online via partner YouTube.
Winning solution-projects will be presented to senior officials in the Obama administration, broadcast on screens in every Best Buy store on the planet, presented at a VIP reception in Washington, DC. Winners will be flown to Los Angeles for the Awards ceremony co-hosted by Sony Pictures Studios. Prizes include an Apple MacBook and iPod Touches, and Sundance Film Festival 2011 Film School Pass.
The What’s Your Issue Foundation is a national not-for-profit organization which runs an internet-based film and song competition, as well as Y/E, The Young Entrepreneur Network and a program of Video Tutorials.
Submission Guidelines
- Submission is open January 18 through April 19 and the person submitting must be between 14 and 24 years old.
- What’s Your Issue Foundation is seeking innovative solutions to issues or problems that exist around us and that you think need the attention of the public and policymakers.
- Identify a significant problem that you are concerned about, think of a solution you believe will work, script it, film it, and then submit your three-minute video to the Film Your Issue competition. Your video should articulate the problem and propose a specific solution to deal with that problem.
- Specifically, the group is looking for workable project ideas that can be implemented locally to tackle a problem in a realistic, doable way. Some examples could be a program or project in a community to recycle used cell phones, or programs to train under-employed youth for employment, or ideas that might address national security or civil rights issues.
- The more dynamic the presentation of your issue and proposed project to solve it, the more you will capture our attention and enthusiasm for it. While cinematic quality always helps, a great project idea will sway our hearts and minds. Innovative thinking is as important as artistic and technical slickness.
The group is also looking for bloggers to take up issues on the "Voices" section of its website. Please e-mail Tim (tim@whatsyourissue.tv) if you're interested.