{"id":5857,"date":"2010-01-29T18:20:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5857"},"modified":"2010-01-29T18:20:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:20:02","slug":"film-your-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5857","title":{"rendered":"Film Your Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsyourissue.tv\/\">What&#8217;s Your Issue Foundation<\/a> has launched its <em>2010 Film Your Issue Competition <\/em>with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/filmyourissue\">YouTube channel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube-global.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/film-your-issue-share-it-with-thought.html\">blog posts<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/WhatsYourIssue\">Twitter feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>People between the ages of 14 and 24 are invited to submit 3-minute videos with their ideas for improving society. &#8220;Prizes include having your winning video shown to senior Obama administration officials in D.C., flying to L.A. for an awards show with Sony Pictures, a Student Pass to the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and Apple products like a Macbook or iPod Touch. Winners will be selected by a VIP Jury, including Tom Brokaw, our own Chad Hurley, Yoko Ono and Nicholas Kristof, and by public voting on YouTube.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An incredible asset of this project and its founder, HeathCliff Rothman, is their ability to draw celebrity support. They&#8217;ve got Jack Black saying &#8220;Dude, I can&#8217;t wait to hear your issue,&#8221; and George Clooney saying, &#8220;Film Your Issue brings <em>your <\/em>voice into the arena. It belongs to you.&#8221; I&#8217;ve had fun advising them a little bit, and I look forward to the winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The What&#8217;s Your Issue Foundation has launched its 2010 Film Your Issue Competition with a YouTube channel, blog posts, and Twitter feed. People between the ages of 14 and 24 are invited to submit 3-minute videos with their ideas for improving society. &#8220;Prizes include having your winning video shown to senior Obama administration officials in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}