FILM YOUR ISSUE: Youth Speak Out, Leadership Listens

Who Can Participate
Anyone age 8 to 22 at the time of video submission, from any country.

Length
We prefer it under 4 minutes, but are not setting firm length rules. It's about impact. For maximum attention and engagement by Judges and public, closer to 3 minutes, again, is optimal. But it's your decision, and your statement.

Format
Your choice, including : 1: documentary-style, narrative-style with multiple cuts, edits, storyline and script; 2: directly talking to camera with webcam or smartphone; 3: music video-style, with music, lyrics and images; 4: animation

Deadline
Extended to Monday, May 28, 2018, midnight your time.

How to submit your entries
Entries will be accepted anytime after March 15, and eligibility for the competition requires registration via the Film Your Issue. Download your film to FilmFreeway. You MUST check the box allowing the video to be downloaded by us, rather than requiring us to contact you to provide authorization. We will share select submissions on our own YouTube page, which is distinct from the judges voting, and will not affect their decisions.

Timeline
Judges voting period, two weeks following deadline.

The Voting Period

From all entries received by the deadline of midnight, May 14, 2018, approximately three dozen films will be selected by the Film Your Issue team to continue to the finals.

The semi-finalists will be submitted to the VIP Judges and the Film Your Issue ThinkTank, which will select the FYI 2018 Jury Prize winners.

Announcement of winners
First week of June 2018

Prizing
Finalist entries will be shared by VIP Judges on their personal and/or professional social media, at their discretion. Select finalists will be posted on USA TODAY online, and on the Everyone Matters YouTube channel, with 45 million views.

Legalities:
All submissions to the 2018 Film Your Issue youth empowerment and issue-engagement initiative will automatically confer upon Film Your Issue and Everyone Matters all rights without fee or penalty, to present and license the entry on any and all platforms (including without limitation internet, broadcast, cable, satellite, podcast, cellphone, etc.).

Style and Content
You don’t have to be a professional filmmaker. Your passion, conviction, originality, persuasive grounded arguments, creativity and uniqueness are as important as professional, polished presentations. Avoid the cliches of multiple edits of heads repeating the same words and phrases. Don’t imitate the style of dry Public Service Announcements which never persuade anybody. Be guided by your heart, passion and belief in what’s right, humane and fair - that’s what judges and public will also respond to. If you go for addressing the camera, your argument will need to be persuasive, dynamic and impressive, and you may mix your on-camera argument with video edits and graphics. Show us, in addition to telling us. We want to be emotionally moved, so tug at our hearts, make us laugh, choke up, feel angry, upset, moved, inspired. Remember: you want us to feel.

Above all: Be yourself. Be passionate. Be original. Be persuasive. We want to hear and see your unique voice, insight and authenticity.

No copyrighted music:
You cannot use copyrighted music to score your video. Repeat: you CANNOT use copyrighted music unless you have multiple permissions from artist, publishers and licensors, which is highly unlikely. Fair use of copyrighted music enables you to use the briefest snippet for effect and for commentary, criticism, news reporting, research or parody. You need to use original music, vocals and instrumentation, or copyright or royalty-free music. Use of copyright music will void your video from being posted on our YouTube Channel or USA TODAY online.

Use of Video and Images
As with music, you cannot use extensive footage. Use of pre-existing video is limited to the most brief snippet for effect and for commentary, criticism, news reporting or parody.

Profanity, violence, racism, personal or partisan attacks
Keep it civil, respectful and rooted in reasoned arguments and discourse. Excessive use of profanity, gratuitous nudity, gratuitous violence, name-calling or extreme attacks on individuals or groups will disqualify your submission from entering the semi-finals.

VIP Jurists as of March 1, 2018, are as follows:

Senator John McCain - Distinguished Honorary Jurist
Hugh Jackman, Actor and philanthropist-humanitarian
General Colin L. Powell, the former U.S. Secretary of State
Jim Accomando, President of The National PTA
Sylvia Acevedo, CEO of The Girl Scouts of the USA
Cameron Barr, Washington Post Managing Editor
Stephen Benjamin, VP of U.S. Conference of Mayors, and Mayor of Columbia S.C.
Dr. Georgette Bennett, President of the Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees
Lonnie Bunch III, Founding Director, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture
Jaime Casap, Google’s Chief Education Evangelist
Heather Conway, Executive VP of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC)/ Radio-Canada English Services
Deborah Delisle, Executive Director of the ASCD/ Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Daniel Domenech, Executive Director of The School Superintendents Association
Sean Hepburn Ferrer, Chair of the Audrey Hepburn Society at UNICEF
Jacqueline Fuller, VP of Google and President of Google.org
Kate Gilmore, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist
Ronald Leopold, Executive Director of The Anne Frank House, Museum and Educational Organization
William Lewis, Wall Street Journal Publisher and Dow Jones CEO
Mike Linnington, CEO of Wounded Warrior Project
Sam Matheny, Executive VP and Chief Technology Officer for The National Association of Broadcasters
Michele Maye, Vice President, New York Public Library
Kathy Roth-Douquet, CEO of Blue Star Families
Carolyn Ryan, Masthead Editor and Assistant Managing Editor of The New York Times
Erik Solheim, Under-Secretary General of the U.N. and United Nations Environment Executive Director
Dr. David Skorton, Secretary of The Smithsonian Institution
Brad Smith, President of Microsoft
Lynn Taliento, Senior Strategist for the Obama Foundation
Maribel Perez Wadsworth, President of USA TODAY NETWORK & Associate Publisher of USA TODAY
David Walmsley, Editor-in-Chief of Canada’s The Globe and Mail
Jim Winkler, President of the National Council of Churches

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To be eligible for contests, videos must be uploaded by midnight of May 14, 2018.

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