lights, camera, action... vote!

Calling all Asian American voters! It's time to bust out your cameras and tell your stories. APIA Vote and the Center for Asian American Media is asking all you videographers, producers, filmmakers and YouTubers out there to help show what civic engagement looks like in your community. Read on for details:

Win a chance for a $100 gift card and to be apart of an upcoming documentary!

Calling Videographers, Producers, Filmmakers, and Youtubers! November 4 is right around the corner. This nation is energized for the November 4th election and millions of new voters are eager to cast their first ballot. That's why APIAVote is inviting you to capture footage on all the voting activities.

Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote & Center for Asian American Media wants you to help us - and AAPIs all over the nation - know what civic engagement looks like in your AAPI community. We want you to tell the stories of AAPIs new to the voting process and their experiences. We want to tell future AAPI voters why voting is important and how high the stakes are.

This is the election of a lifetime. Help APIAVote & CAAM document this historic election.

Entries will be displayed on APIAVote and CAAM's youtube channels as well as their website. Additionally, selected footage will contribute to a larger video piece about AAPIs and political participation.

Upload your edited or unedited clips (3-5 minutes) via sendspace.com, wikisend.com, etc. Send link to submissions and questions to Alvina Yeh: alvina@apiavote.org//202-725-5651.

Full contest rules here: http://www.apiavote.org/contest-rules

It sounds like they're putting together a really cool project, and given how important and unprecedented this election is, what they're really doing is documenting history... and our part, as community, in creating change. And hey, your footage could be selected to be part of a larger video piece about AAPIs and political participation. For more information, and contest rules, go here.