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Join us to celebrate and premiere youth-created media from around the world!
On May 23rd at 2 p.m. at La Maison Francaise in Washington, DC!
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The Shortie Awards: Film & News Festival is the premiere film festival for students ages 7 to 18 and their teachers!

Entry Categories: Live Action: Narrative, Documentary, Experimental, PSA, Music Video, or Other

Animation: Stop-Motion, Claymation, Machinima, Digital, or Other Daily News Program

Age Categories: 7-10, 11-14, 15-18, and K-12

Established in 2001, The Shortie Awards: Student Film and News Festival recognizes original digital media productions created by student filmmakers, ages 7-18, and their teachers. The Shortie Awards focuses on nurturing imagination and choice making in students.

The Shortie Awards is part of MHz Networks’ Education Department. The event grew out of the Department’s EAT (Education Arts and Technology) program for young filmmakers in the Washington D.C. area and has since blossomed into a national and even international event, featuring submissions from all over the world.

Check out http://www.shortie.org for more information.

8: The Mormon Proposition, reflects the efforts of those that created it and us that are in it, to hold OUR (now former) church accountable for the pain they knowingly inflicted on OUR families.

- The documentary IS NOT about disagreeing with the church’s moral standards or their right to spend their money on issues they feel are important.

- It IS about hypocrisy; how a church (that says it is all about “being honest in our dealings with our fellow men”), knowingly created and funded dishonest ads to promote their own moral agenda; and (by their own admissions) hid their involvement. The Church stated in their own documents, that if the voters knew the extent of the church’s involvement, it would negatively impact the vote.

- This documentary does not claim that the LDS Church did this alone, even though at its strong urging, its members (only 2% of the voters) donated over 70% of the money contributed and over 90% of the volunteer efforts.

We would hope the displeased members of other groups, be they Catholic, Protestant, African American, Latino, Baptist…, would hold their leaders accountable as well.

Anyone feeling to criticize it should see it first. You will find as Variety’s review states: “8″ actually spends more time trying to humanize homosexuals than to demonize those who hate them.

Opens in selected cities June 18th, and on VOD. Available on DVD July 6th.

Watch the NEW trailer: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/8themormonproposition/