What Could You Win?

The Grand Prize winner will receive:

Videos will be judged in several categories, including age and geographical location. Turn Around America tour cities and/or states with separate competitions include:

  • Chicago, IL
  • Cincinnati, OH
  • Cleveland, OH
  • Columbus, OH
  • Denver, CO
  • Detroit, MI
  • Maine
  • Minneapolis, MN
  • New Hampshire
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • Pittsburgh, PA
  • Portland, OR
  • Rochester, MN
  • St. Louis, MO
  • St. Paul, MN

All winners will be announced on the no later than June 24, 2008.

How Do You Win?

  1. Start your camera rolling and express yourself through video – it could be a song, poetry, speech, satire, comedy or any other visual art form on video.

  2. Submit a video that creatively tells your personal story about what you believe is wrong with America and how we can turn things around. Make sure you address both issues!

  3. Be 14 or older to participate.

  4. Your video must be less than 3:30 (three minutes, thirty seconds)

  5. Do not include any reference to any political person, candidate, party, association or corporation in any way.

  6. Video entries are not eligible if they include copyrighted music or material, or contain unauthorized images of identifiable people or other confidential information.

  7. You will be judged on the creativity and originality of your video, as well as the content of your response.

  8. Videos will be accepted online through the competition’s Web site at www.turnaroundvideocontest.com. The deadline for entries is Tuesday, June 10, 2008.

  9. Remember that if you use professional actors, they may need to file a union contract.  Go to www.sag.org/contracts.

  10. Click here for official contest rules.

What video file formats can I upload?

YouTube accepts a wide range of video file formats such as .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG transferred from most digital cameras, camcorders, and cell phones.

If you don't think your current video file format is recognized by YouTube, you may get the best results from converting your file to MPEG4 video with MP3 audio.

Contest participants who are selected as finalists will be required to provide the AFL-CIO with a high-resolution version of their video.