About Us

FYI - Film Your Issue is an unprecedented, ambitious outreach to young Americans to engage them in the public dialogue about pressing issues of importance, locally or nationally.

We want to know what young people think, we want to empower the next generation of leaders to understand how their single voices can influence the public debate, and — as hoakey as it sounds — to understand the power of democracy — where every voice counts.

We want your passion, ingenuity, creativity, originality. We want to hear your heart, and see your talent in action.

Distinguished Jurists

Founder

Walter Cronkite
News Anchor/Journalist/ Author

HeathCliff Rothman
Journalist/Social Entrepreneur

Tom Brokaw
Anchor/Author

 

Jurists

Advisory ThinkTank

Kiyo Akasaka
Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, United Nations

 Jody Arlington

Brad Anderson
Chairman and CEO,
Best Buy

 Lee Brenner
Executive Producer of Political Programming & Director of IMPACT, MySpace.com

Tom Anderson
Founder/President,MySpace

Christine Flynn
Executive Director, Original Productions, Starz

Tammy Baldwin
Congresswoman, 2nd District,Wisconsin

Troy Hollar
President, MetaFoundry

Wolf Blitzer
Anchor, CNN’s The Situation Room and Late Edition

Shawn Lemone
Assistant VP, Film & Television/New Media & Technology, ASCAP

Roslyn Brock
Vice Chairwoman, NAACP

Stephen Nemeth
President, Rhino Films

Susan Grant
Executive VP, CNN News

Barr Potter
Founder and CEO, MediaWide Consultants

Bob Kerrey
Former Senator;
President, The New School

Eric Roth
Executive VP, Co-Head of Business & Legal Affairs, The Weinstein Company

Nicholas Kristof
Political Op-ed,
The New York Times

Mark Sacks
Corporate Consultant/New Media Agent,
William Morris Agency

Bill Maher
HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher

Sevan Serafino
Woodbury University, Class of 2009

Craig Moon
President/Publisher,
USA TODAY

Kathi Sharpe-Ross
President, The Sharpe Alliance

Al Neuharth
Founder,
USA TODAY

Joe Trippi
Political Strategist/News Commentator

Sheila Nevins
President,
HBO Documentary and Films

Michael Ventura
Partner/ Creative Director, Seed Gives Life

Christina Norman
Former President, MTV Network

Marc Von Arx
Creative Artists Agency

Tom Ortenberg
President,
Lionsgate Entertainment

Wayne Pacelle
President and CEO,
The Humane Society of the United States

Jon Petrovich
Vice President, Domestic Broadcast,
Associated Press

Carl Pope
Executive Director,
Sierra Club

Ted Sarandos
Chief Content Officer,
Netflix

Greg Shaw
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Joe Solmonese
President,
Human Rights Campaign

Harvey Weinstein
Chairman,
Weinstein Company

Brian Williams
Anchor and Managing Editor,
NBC Nightly News

Jeremy Zimmer
Founding partner/board member, United Talent Agency
 

 

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Jurists for FYI 2008 include:

 
Walter Cronkite
News Anchor/Author		 Tom Brokaw
News Anchor/Author
 
Tom Anderson
Founder/President, MySpace		 Wolf Blitzer
Anchor
 
Bob Kerrey
President, The New School		 Bill Maher
HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher
 
Sheila Nevins
President, HBO Documentary and Films		 Harvey Weinstein
Chairman, The Weinstein Company