The NAACP Youth & College Division Supports the 2010"What's Your Issue? - Film Your Issue" Competition!The NAACP Youth & College Division is pleased to announce our participation in a new film competition and we welcome the involvement of our members in the What’s Your Issue? - Film Your Issue initiative and competition! The NAACP is supporting this exciting and important competition, along with YouTube, Best Buy, Apple, Association of American Colleges and Universities, American Red Cross, Sony Pictures and others.Young adults ages 14 to 24 are invited to develop and present innovative solution-project ideas to front-burner issues, in one of nine categories: environment, education, health/ healthcare, poverty, public service, national security and defense, the economic recession, and human and equal rights. Winners will be selected by both a VIP Jury and public online via 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, and flown to Los Angeles for the Awards ceremony, co-hosted by Sony Pictures Studios. Prizes include an Apple MacBook, iPhones and a Student Filmmaker Pass to the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.The format for submission is a 3-minute video, presenting both the issue and proposed solution-project idea. At the time of submission, the video will be uploaded along with an accompanying one-sheet narrative outlining the project. The deadline for submissions is April 18, 2010.Details of the competition are on the What’s Your Issue- Film Your Issue Website.http://www.whatsyourissue.tvWhat’s Your Issue- Film Your Issue President, HeathCliff Rothman, personally invites your emailed questions or comments to: heathcliff@whatsyourissue.tvStefanie L. Brown,National Field Director-NAACP4805 Mt. Hope DriveBaltimore, MD 21215410-580-5658410-358-9786 faxsbrown@naacpnet.orghttp://www.naacp.org/youth/college/index.htm
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