Twenty Thousand Dollar Prize Offered for Short Film Contest

The "One Nation, Many Voices" Online Film Contest is offering $50,000 in prizes for short videos illuminating the American Muslim experience. Everyone in the U.S. is invited to compete, regardless of race or religion.

The deadline is September 26, 2008.

We are looking for outstanding entries in these five assignment areas: American Muslim Life, American Muslim Women, American Muslim Youth, 60-Second Spot and Interfaith.

Winners for each assignment will be awarded $5,000 and all finalists will receive a FLIP camera and will also be eligible for the $20,000 Grand Prize.

Prize winners will be selected by a panel that includes musician/activist Kenneth Gamble, screenwriter/director Callie Khouri, writer/activist Ausma Khan, 2007 One Nation festival Grand Prize winner Lena Khan, author Christopher Lowney, comedian Preacher Moss (of Allah Made Me Funny) and country music singer Kareem Salama. Winners will also be aired nationally on Link TV.

For more info and to submit visit: http://www.linktv.org/onenation

wait so how could i possibly make a film about this? If you say anyone regardless of religion or race can participate? I am not a muslim, and I do not think muslim is a good religion. I do not think any religion is good. so how could this possibly be important? if no race or religion similiar is necessary, than why are you limiting the actual festival to only one religion/point of view? Your contest is a huge fraud

Really Kyle?

It's just a topic for the festival. They are not limiting the point of view, you could make a film saying exactly what you just wrote. They are trying to get exposure for an often misunderstood and under represented religion.

The worst you could say ids that it sounds a bit boring but calling it a fraud is absurd.

it is a fraud tho, and I would never make a film voicing my own universally void opinion...its like they are asking for trouble. I hear all the time or see shows all the time about this subject, or racism, or anything about people not "understanding" or whatever...yet its not even a REAL problem...or a REAL extension of PEOPLE. all religions are like expensive name brand clothes. everyones got their 40$ t shirt and they think its better

yes, people dont understand certain religions (from that religion's pov) or hate crimes stem out, or whatever, but to have MONEY involved in tryin gto voice or bring about change. that is absolute fraud. really

Kyle, as REDking said, the topic of the festival is the Muslim experience in America, but the contest is open to anyone.

There's even a category called "Two Faiths, One Film" in which you can focus on the rewards and/or challenges of inter-religious friendships. Let me know if you have any questions.

exampe I show a show where they have muslim women go into a store and they get treated negatively.

well guess what, I get treated negatively all the freaking time...I was riding my bike in the road and a guy pulled out of a church (through the enterence driveway not the exit) and he has the nerve to honk at me cause I am riding in the street, so i flipped him off, what did he do back? he flipped me off!

And I go into stores and I have had security guards on their hands and knees peeking around the aisles at me.

so anyoen can make a film and be like "my teacher didnt understand my religion and told me it was wrong but i tried to tell them it was good and he still didnt care" and this doesnt say ANYTHING about the real problem, cause its still using religion as a scapegoat. There's no religion even if you think there is.

inter religious? thats the problem I have with peopel i know. I know religious people and i have tried to be friends with them, but I see them falling apart at the mouth when they say things that have been said over and over for hundreds of years. all religions share OLD information. No one cares. its like making a movie about dinosaurs. they are dead. lets get to the real subject. I am not hating on religion cause I dont have anything personal against anyone, i just hate bad ideas

o nthe same subject theres a website called xxxchurch.com that has born again religious folk talking about their porno addictions and sex problems. they dont offer huge grand prizes tho, maybe you should make a muslim site for that I know there's issues with that with the religion. Whats teh real problem? the religion? the sex?

the PERSON!!!!!

aswell the OTHER people, the GROUPS saying "no it should be this way" or "this way is better"

Sorry for your troubles, Kyle, but this contest is really just about decimating false stereotypes and illuminating the trials, highs, and lows that a Muslim person might face in modern America.

there's no false stereotypes, anyone who does that is just as crazy as you who pray 5 times a day.

didnt anyone tell you, praying is not something you can actually DO. its almost like a natural phenomenon or subconcious experience. any effort to actually "pray" cancels out that "wish" or "desire". the trick is to not think about it at all!!!!! or just, DO IT!

I couldnt make a film about my recomendation here cause so many of these religions, like Muslim, believe "submit to God" and that pretty much means anyone else who has a diff idea is wrong. talk about false sterotypes, "dont believe the person who doesnt submit"

Argh.

Nihilists are amateurs at the art of living. They can always find a reason to do nothing at all.

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Originally posted by REDking:
Argh.

Nihilists are amateurs at the art of living. They can always find a reason to do nothing at all.

What a naive quote.

Just my experience. That a person who rejects meaning often hasn't faced many obstacles in thier lives. Hell they might be right but what good does it do. Religion for example is a tool that brings comfort (legitimate or not) to thier lives on a persnal level. Why would someone attack that? And to stay on topic why would someone attack a festival that is simply trying to open a discusion on a personal experience.

It just came off a bit too teenage angsty for me to ignore.

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Originally posted by REDking:
Just my experience. That a person who rejects meaning often hasn't faced many obstacles in thier lives. Hell they might be right but what good does it do. Religion for example is a tool that brings comfort (legitimate or not) to thier lives on a persnal level. Why would someone attack that? And to stay on topic why would someone attack a festival that is simply trying to open a discusion on a personal experience.

It just came off a bit too teenage angsty for me to ignore.

Now THAT I agree with :-D

Angsty is right. We should be able to post about religious film festivals on here without somebody attacking the poster. We get it, you don't like religion, nobody's telling you that you need to enter this contest, but some people on this site might be interested in this film contest.

Kyle,
you are coming off as a complete d-bag. heres why:

you assert your viewpoint as factual.

if the eyes through which we see the world are the only eyes we will each have, then is the validity of one's own viewpoint relevant to another?

Evan, you're coming off even worse.

Kyle was at least trying to give an honest opinion and at least try to articulate his answers. Granted in a James Joyce stream of conscious way but calling him a d-bag pretty much makes you the classless one here.

Long live Kyle.

maybe i'm being harsh, and it is fine that he has an opinion, and i even agree with some what he's saying... I just really can't when people KNOW that their opinion on something which there clearly is no universal answer, is the right one, and then insist on telling others that this is so.

I'm not saying he IS a d-bag, i hardly know him at all. Just the way he is expressing himself is offputting.... Nobody is going to see eye to eye with him is he tells them how to think.

This whole thing started when he called this festival thing a fraud. Which is just setting up for people to get defensive.

Maybe i'm the d-bag, but i just find that the way that this thread has unfolded to be immature, and while it could have sparked debate, and thoughtful discussion, I feel that Kyle has turned it into his own personal rant/blog.... I guess this offends me. I'm sorry if this is ignorant.

I wonder if all film threads are this fun...

so many threads on this site are turning lame lately... i don't exactly know why.