Film Your Issue

Film Your Issue is a national issue film contest featuring 30 to 60-second films by U.S. residents from the ages of 18 and 26. Spearheaded by Heathcliff Rothman, in partnership with The American Democracy Project, the contest had its first "beta" round in 2005.

cite web
url=http://www.filmyourissue.com/about/index.shtml
title=FYI - Film Your Issue :: About Us
date=August 31st, 2006

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In 2006, the contest kicked off its expanded vision. Thirty-five semi-finalists were named by the competition, and five winners were selected

cite news
url=http://uscpublicdiplomacy.com/index.php/newsroom/pdline_detail/20060608_film_your_issue_2006_selects_winner/
title=FILM YOUR ISSUE 2006 SELECTS WINNERS
publisher=USC Center on Public Diplomacy
date=June 8, 2006

] through a combination of a jury including Walter Cronkite, Brian Williams, Senator Barack Obama, George Clooney, and others.

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url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10821614/
title=FYI: The VIP jury list
publisher=MSNBC
date=February 3, 2006]

All semi-finalists are shown on MSN Video, and the 5 winners are shown on MTVu. One of the winners receives an internship at The Walt Disney Company.

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url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10821378/
title=Film Your Issue: Lights, camera, action!
publisher=MSNBC
date=March 31, 2006

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References

External links

* [http://www.filmyourissue.com/ Film Your Issue site]
* [http://epicfu.com/2008/09/television-is-our-b1tch.html Video interview of HeathCliff Rothman by Zadi Diaz of EPIC FU] , weekly web show that covers online pop culture (September 16, 2008)