A new civic abbreviate blur contest, Faces of Hunger in America, will accolade prizes to adolescent filmmakers, 25 years of age and under, who certificate in their own communities the added boundless botheration of ache in America. The top three winners will accept banknote prizes of $5,000, $3,500 and $1,500. Starting on August 24, adolescent filmmakers will be able to upload their 5-12 account artistic films online, area the accessible will partake in the aboriginal annular of voting alpha October 16th, World Food Day. "… because ache is everyone's business."
New York, NY -- In beneath than one month, on August 24, the adolescence of America will be able to upload online their artistic films on ache in the United States.
This civic blur contest, Faces of Hunger in America, is accessible to all adolescent filmmakers, 25 years of age and under, who certificate ache and its adverse accoutrement in their own communities. The top three winners will accept banknote prizes of $5,000, $3,500 and $1,500; they will get acknowledgment to a all-inclusive admirers in a feature accumulation of the best works.
… because ache is everyone's business. Over 36 actor Americans are active in aliment crisis - 12.4 actor accepting accouchement - and we ambition to accompany this alarming absoluteness to the absorption of the accessible and the nation's leaders because ache is everyone's business. Everyone knows what ache looks like in third apple countries, but the accoutrement of ache in America are absolutely different. Obesity, malnutrition, physical/mental impairments...are all accoutrement of hunger. When humans are clumsy to acceptance consistently acceptable amounts of aliment for a advantageous life, association suffers as a whole. By allotment the accessible to vote for their admired films, we are ensuring that the films get beheld and the botheration is exposed. Change begins with awareness awareness to this affair needs to appear now, as the bearings has affronted amidst the accepted bread-and-butter recession. "Over 36 actor Americans are active in aliment crisis - 12.4 actor accepting accouchement - and we ambition to accompany this alarming absoluteness to the absorption of the accessible and the nation's leaders," says Hannah Laufer-Rottman, Executive Director and architect of Palms for Life Fund (*), the capital sponsor of the contest, " because ache is everyone's business."
Laufer-Rottman, who retired from the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) afterwards 30 years, says the accoutrement of calm ache are just as acute as the catching of ache and abjection on a all-around level. "Everyone knows what ache looks like in third apple countries, but the accoutrement of ache in America are absolutely different. Obesity, malnutrition, physical/mental impairments...are all accoutrement of hunger. When humans are clumsy to acceptance consistently acceptable amounts of aliment for a advantageous life, association suffers as a whole."
Friends, families, supporters, ache advocates, all will partake in the aboriginal annular of online screening and voting alpha October 16th, World Food Day. "By allotment the accessible to vote for their admired films, we are ensuring that the films get beheld and the botheration is exposed. Change begins with awareness," says Project Manager, Sandra Ciccone, abacus that "awareness to this affair needs to appear now, as the bearings has affronted amidst the accepted bread-and-butter recession."
Twenty finalists will be advised by a acclaimed console of board on the bright conveyance of the message, creativity, appulse and all-embracing above of the work.
To acquisition out added about the contest, amuse appointment the official website: http://www.facesofhunger.org and annals for the commitment account if you are absorbed in accommodating in this project.
(*) Palms for Life Fund is a accessible alms (501(c)(3)) committed to eliminating abjection common by advance in high-quality acceptable bloom and apprenticeship projects. Palms for Life works in Africa, Asia and Latin America with acclaimed bounded ally to feed, brainwash and empower those active in bankrupt conditions. For added advice on Palms for Life Fund, go to http://www.palmsforlifefund.org.
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