The creators – 21-year old Cameron Ernst & Devon Feldmeth – say they were inspired by the plight of child soldiers in Uganda, and the movement, Invisible Children, to help.

Deadline is April 19, 2010.

http://www.youtube.com/whatsyourissuemusic#p/u/0/YN5njYarNGY

To access via web, go to http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id360749159 and you can redirect to iTunes

Or to access directly from iTunes, go to iTunes Store and under search, type in “film your issue.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/heathcliff-rothman/how-to-engage-youth-in-a_b_510676.html

We all like success stories. Especially a guy as nice (and talented) as Tim Leaton. He won the 2006 Film Your Issue competition, and with it the summer internship at Walt Disney Studios.

Cut to a few years later. In today’s Collegiate Times is a feature story on Tim – who now lives in Los Angeles, has worked with Ben Stiller, and works as assistant editor for shows such as “Marriage Ref” and “World’s Strictest Parents.”

For full story – http://www.collegiatetimes.com/stories/15235/alumnus-film-career-started-with-competition

This is the 2nd year that the The Human Rights Campaign is a partner in Film Your Issue, outreaching to its LGBT members to submit films (and now songs).

You can catch their newscast at http://www.hrc.org/equallyspeaking

Great to experience all that engaged young energy!

The partnership with America’s Promise Alliance continues, as they reach out in today’s newsletter to their membership to encourage youth engagement in issues – and formulate solution-projects to submit for the current competition!

Here’s a link to the newsletter mailed today: http://www.bit.ly/97W242

Selected by the Center for Civic Education, the Film Your Issue-Project Citizen Public Policy Award will be awarded to a video that presents the best public policy solution to a public policy problem (including an explanation as to why the problem is best addressed by public policy).

The winner of the Film Your Issue-Project Citizen Public Policy Award winner will be flown by the Center for Civic Education to Los Angeles for the 2010 awards ceremony, co-hosted by Sony Pictures and Film Your Issue.

Winners will also be featured at the Center for Civic Education’s National Project Citizen Showcase at the Legislative Summit of the National Conference of State Legislatures in Louisville, Kentucky in July 2010.

The bi-partisan Center for Civic Education promotes the principles and practice of democracy in schools in the U.S. and abroad to more than 1.5 million annual participants worldwide.

For more information, go to http://www.civiced.org/index.php?page=film_your_pc

Today’s clearly Yoko day for us, because she Twittered about us to her 3/4 million followers, as well.

Story is also very long!

Here’s a link to the site, and a screenshot, below – http://imaginepeace.com/

Here’s where you can read the full story:

http://imaginepeace.com/archives/9957

Here’s her Tweet to her 750K followers about us, below, or at  http://twitter.com/yokoono

A side note to her values:   amazing, when the Montreal Fine Arts Museum was hosting the touring John and Lennon Peace Exhibit last summer, Yoko insisted that if the museum had the opportunity to host it –  then it would have to be free to the public.  And the Montreal Fine Arts Museum was forced to open the entire museum to all visitors last summer, during peak time, for public viewing, FOR FREE.   Thanks, Yoko!

We’re always saying, Thanks, Yoko, for something!~

What’s Your Issue-Film Your Issue is happy to announce a partnership with NAMM, who will reach out to its vast constituency to encourage participation in our new Issue Song Competition.

A song winner, selected by a panel of judges, led by Actor-Musician Jack Black, will perform at the 2010 Awards Ceremony in Los Angeles, co-hosted by Sony Pictures, as well as at the Annual NAMM Show in January 2011 – a gathering of more than 85,000  music product industry professionals.

Read more at http://www.namm.org/news/press-releases/namm-joins-what’s-your-issue-foundation-help-teens