The One Chicago, One Nation Online Film Contest is well underway now, and we’re excited about the energy surrounding the contest. We’ve heard from people across the country who share a love for community-building and/or the city and people of Chicago and are prepping their films for submission.
The Inner-city Muslim Action Network has a history of grassroots community service and activism, and a focus on materially impacting the neighborhood and community of Marquette Park, and Chicago as a whole. In this work, we know the importance of people telling their individual stories and sharing their experiences to find and highlight common value systems. This is what the online film contest hopes to do through digital storytelling.
Each person submitting a film is offering us an opportunity to understand someone else’s perspective, and learn from the issues and the solutions that they present. Ultimately, the ability to empathize with our fellow Chicagoans, and more importantly, fellow human beings, is an invaluable skill and character trait. Please watch the videos online at linktv.org/onechicago, and leave your comments and votes.
We’re also hoping to build peoples’ skill sets by offering free film-making workshops, starting this Saturday, February 20. IMAN is hosting free film workshops on the south and north sides of Chicago, and we’d love for you to sign up!
If you have any questions, please email us at films@onechicago-onenation.org. We love talking about this project and are always happy to discuss it with you!
You can also find details by clicking Film Contest above.
And if you’re just not into film, don’t forget about our Community Ambassador program, and our 20 $10,000 Community Solution Grants…
