Running for President is a daunting task. Now try running for President with no money, limited media access, constant struggles to...
"Your Vote Counts" will be an extended PSA, but told in a narrative style with a beginning, middle and end. On the eve o...
Interviews with geese may be an odd way to explain why humans should vote, but on many levels, this is a useful metaphor. Unlike t...
A FILM BY AN AMERICAN ABOUT AMERICAN POLITICS WITHOUT AN AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW With the presidential campaign underway, every...
Two hundred nineteen years ago Washington, D.C. was established as our nation's capitol. The only way all the states would a...
WHAT:
Ready or Not ? a documentary film, focuses on New Yorker's views about the two contenders for the Democratic Party Pre...
Along the Delaware River, on the border of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, in the town of Phillipsburg, there is a small grocery stor...
Dear Future President, is a short documentary based on interviews with elementary school children in the nations capital. This sh...
"Choose or Lose," MTV told millions of young people, when I was a young person in the 90s. It must have worked, because...
Google "felony, vote" and the first link that appears leads you to The Sentencing Project, an advocacy organization with...
Guadalupe County, Texas is right in the middle of a very red state. The formerly rural community is becoming suburban in parts an...
I´d like to raise up the voices of a minority group, homeless Americans, who are sometimes spoken of this election season but not...
Using still photography, radio talk show sound bites, and video, I’d like to craft a film that explores what makes a person deci...
I’d like to do a film about how the American public is using the Internet to transform politics. In recent years we have seen t...
"Middle America" seems to be on everyone's mind in this election. Which candidate can capture the heart of the Hea...
I want to interview American's of all walks of life and all socio- economic backgrounds on why they want to vote and what the...
Meet Rashida Tlaib. Rashida lives in one of the largest Arab-American communities in the United States, just outside of Detroit. A...
My mother likes to tell the story of the first time she used a mechanical voting machine. It was the 1960’s and her young family...
This submission is a unique look at the American voters opinion or at least how I have observed it among my friends in the past ye...
Justin Alfond, a 29 year old former professional golfer from Dexter, Maine who is currently locked in a tight race for State Senat...
Almost each and every day now we see a new aftershock of America’s housing meltdown: the empty houses, the record setting bank ...
The separation of church and state is a corner stone value of the United States of America, but completely separating church and s...
Fueled by the tension of opposites dominating our country -- a country more polarized than ever -- we offer an analog snapshot of ...
Democracy or Republic? The majority of people believe that we live in a democracy, when actually we live in a republic. That doesn...
Our election story plays out in the lively streets and engaging schools of Tucson, Arizona, a political story with national resona...
RACE has been a central issue in the media coverage of the 2008 presidential election. What has received far less attention in th...
In the past months, while researching abroad in Bosnia Herzegovina, I have gained a fresh perspective and appreciation for our pol...
“08 Race” is an adrenalin-soaked action sequence following the pack of presidential candidates through car chases, fight scene...
In November of 1968, my father cast his first vote in a Presidential Election for Democrat Hubert Humphrey. That same year, he joi...
THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD
GOAL "I'm not asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real chan...
My proposal is simple in content but more complex and nuanced in its presentation.
I want to present 3 to 4 socio-psychological a...
"Welcoming Bush, but waiting for Obama!" was one of many billboards splattered on the main road in Monrovia, welcoming P...
"Bitter-gate" was a defining moment in Barack Obama's journey from golden boy to a very mortal candidate. Obama&#...
I feel that the presidential elections have become little more than a cavalcade of sound bites and superficiality. I consider myse...
Whoever is elected president in 2008 will be faced with one of the most challenging pieces of labor related legislation since the...
A Muslim man in Brooklyn walks into the poll knowing he can vote for president, but that he could never succeed as a candidate him...
In 1993, my good friend, George Phillips, and I ran for senior class government. I won my race to be treasurer and he won the pres...
Throughout its short history, our nation has faced issues of war, terrorism, inflation, economic turmoil, job cuts, and health car...
In the past few years Americans have been faced with an increasing amount of problems from rising gas prices, the Iraq War, the Ho...
Consider:
A Democratic nominee commissions graffiti artists for campaign murals Street artists spend substantial time, money, and...
To run for the highest office in the United States, one’s motivation to succeed must withstand incredible obstacles that would s...
For the first time in history, a female may hold the most powerful office in the world.
“Hillary” documents the passionate, ...
2008 has seen a Black male candidate deliver an authoritative statement “about Race” where his competitors didn’t have to; h...
Clandestine political hitman Lance N. Smeer revisits some of his “greatest hits”: campaigns and individuals he brought low wit...
Controversial economist and democratic statesman Lyndon LaRouche created the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) in 1999. While LaRouche...
My story idea:
Late one rainy night Dr. Avery Manning gets a knock at his door. Who is it? -the Election of course. It turns o...
As Americans, we like our freedoms and are individualities. But do we really remember what those freedoms are that we were given, ...
You’ve always been the model citizen. Been involved in community affairs. Supported your local politicians. Voted in every elect...
Its 2008… It’s time to hear America’s voice about issues concerning our country. It’s our chance to address the presidenti...
“To a leader will be born an idiot heir…weak both in knowledge and in warfare…” NOSTRADAMUS (Quatrain 13, Century 6) Ab...
Are you a Clintonite or do you have Obamania? Do you support healthcare on a “Play-or-Pay” basis, or by “individual mandate...
Race! Gender! Guilt by association! This year’s election by far has been the most racially charged election that America has eve...
Long dubbed the bellwether for the nation, the ”Show Me State” has an uncanny ability to select the country’s victorious pre...
I’m a 26 year old filmmaker in Jackson, MS. I am an African American working class woman from a middle class family. I am the ...
An artistic and impressionistic pictorial of an unordinary life in an ordinary environment. For many years, economists have tho...
Volunteerism is a topic that all the candidates can agree is something vital to our country. I want to approach this video project...
"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to revea...
The eyes of the puppet. In this three minute imaginative documentary we will visit with New England’s most brilliant and col...
Coming from Chicago, a home to diverse-voiced comedy and performance, this documentary is about how the election has been absorbed...
On any given day you can tune into talk radio (left or right of the dial) and hear callers and commentators both thanking stranger...
In communities within the heart of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania where George Washington crossed the Delaware, and the first ...
Whats happening, I'm da Brotha LC. Recently this year, 2008, I asked by the National Coalition for the Homeless to be a guide...
Introducing America's Next President, a new reality television show where the presidential candidates and their families must...
Tip O’Neil once said, “ All politics is local”. What could be a better barometer of the political climate than looking local...
here's my pitch: a humorous look at the election titled: hillary barack and john we all know chelsea clinton will be...
The film is about a vagrant who saves a mans life. The vagrant was looking for change, when he just happens to see a man being rob...
I started making documentaries when I was 22. I made one called Club Rock 2000 about drag queens in New York City and one called ...
Believe it or not next to NYC, Phoenix, Arizona has the greatest number of art galleries in the country. Some of the artists whos...
Any discussion of race is fraught with political peril. It is a sensitive subject which is difficult to analyze and understand. ...
This short would be a homage to the ‘going to war’ musical scene from the Marx Brothers classic, “Duck Soup”. However, ins...
When you wake up, first thing in the morning and you haven't begun to realize where you are or what you are, or really formed...
I am a part-time faculty member at Boston College, where I teach creative writing and Asian American literature for the past seven...
There are quite a few young people out there whom are watching the World closely with a sizable amount of Apathy. What is at t...
I recently learned about teens who are incredibly devoted to the political agenda of the conservative and radical Libertarian move...
Nearly half a century after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and despite record-high voter participation in the 2008 ...
What if today’s politics actually represented the marketplace of ideas instead of the sewer? Our American political syst...
This election year, I have noticed a trend. People who normally would not be engaged in the political process are getting fired ...
I have filmed interviews with many prominent Iraqi politicians, peace activists and members of the Iraqi Parliament, some from opp...
Every now and then, someone stands out of the crowd and makes people take notice. In this case, he happens to bear a striking rese...
To have no voice, no say, to be subject to the choice and decision of others political views. In a country where the right to vot...
In 2005 the cost of my house was $570,000. Three years later the value of my house is approximately $430,000. The value of real ...
In 2000, President Goerge W. Bush won the election over Democrat Al Gore by a mere 25 electoral votes.Many scholars attributed Bus...
On election day, Joe, a normal guy walks through a sunny neighborhood lined with houses and trimmed lawns towards a school to cast...
I will set the scene...it is 5:30am on cold rainy February morning and as per my usual I reach over grab some head phones and chec...
A short, quickly paced montage of images and clips over Bush's eight year reign of upheaval. From the elections in 2000 to t...
The Good Die Young was originally a song we made for the people that lost there loves to the random acts of gun violence at columb...
My name is Galen Carter-Jeffrey and I have never voted for a republican in my entire short voting life. That is until March 5th 20...
The purpose of this short is to make a connection between the war in Iraq and how its social and economic costs are undermining th...
"Who're you voting for?" and "Why?" How many times do we hear this? Instead, here're the questions...
I would like to produce a short about the environmental inclinations of the two to three top candidates, and investigate whether t...
A was man from Yemen who had a farm and had two sons who helped to take care of the land. Then how one day after a few extremists ...
The 2008 election has many Greater Boston neighborhoods posting banners and signs that proclaim support for a specific candidate. ...
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