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This years winners of the 2010 Hunger Bites! World Food Program video contest are heading to Guatemala to raise awareness about the country’s underfed population. A recent drought has exacerbated the Guatemalan hunger crisis…
Two aspiring filmmakers from Mexico, the grand prize winners of an annual video competition held by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to raise awareness of the world’s one billion hungry, are heading to Guatemala to highlight the plight the drought-ridden country’s people.
Carlos Antonio Michel Sandoval and Miguel Angel Mier Delgado of Zacatecas were chosen in the over-18 category by a panel of judges that included Drew Barrymore, actress and WFP Ambassador Against Hunger, Steve Grove, Head of YouTube News and Politics, and Nancy Roman, Director of Communications, Public Policy and Private Partnerships at WFP…
He and Mr. Sandoval will now try out their filmmaking skills in Guatemala, which has the fourth highest rate of chronic malnutrition in the world and whose severe food crisis has recently been worsened by prolonged drought.
WFP is planning to assist almost a quarter of a million people in the Central American nation with life-saving food rations over the next 5 months.(UN News Centre)
Winning video:
In some places in the world, starvation isn’t a fad or a choice:
Dreams
by Carlos Antonio Michel Sandoval and Miguel Angel Mier Delgado
Under 18 contest winner:
Today’s Special: A most delicate morsel of cardboard. This delectable entree stands alone.
Dinner is Served!
by John Beck
I personally find the video from this finalist most powerful:
Baby Arcade Game
Shweta & Abhyuday Pradhan
Popularity: 4% [?]
Why paint? – To feel the vibration that opens the seed in the womb of My Mother Earth.
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