$3500 Scholarship for Budding Sex Ed. Filmmakers

Five outstanding sex organizations have joined forces for one awesome video contest that I’m seven years too late to enter.

ISIS, Advocates for Youth, RH Reality Check, the National Sexuality Resource Center, and SEICUS just announced the Fresh Focus Digital Video Contest which will award a $3500 scholarship to the youth (liberally defined as 15 to 30 years old) who creates the best video about sex education that’s less than 3 minutes and manages to keep everyone’s pants on. They’re already taking submissions and the deadline is December 31st.

The winner will be announced, and their video featured at Sex:Tech, the first ever conference to focus on youth sexual health and technology, which is happening in January in San Francisco (where else).

I was extra excited to hear that the winning video will be presented by my current favorite pseudo-sex-ed videographers, the Midwest Teen Sex Show.

I guess it shouldn't be surprising, but despite the heaps of creativity people put into short videos on every topic imaginable, most sex content you see on YouTube and most sex education video a la 2.0 are still relatively uninspired; possibly proving the next generation are already as screwed up about sex as the previous one. Hopefully $3500 worth of motivation will prove me wrong.

Get details and submission requirements for the Fresh Focus Digital Video Contest here

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