In a (perhaps fruitless?) effort to prove that YouTube is not just a place to post videos of your hamster dancing to David Hasselhoff's hits, the United Nations' food aid agency launched a contest for the best short movie with the topic of global hunger.
The contest, officially launched by the World Food Programme (WFP), accepts 30 to 60 second videos that will expose the problem of global hunger. The best five films will be posted on WFP's YouTube site (to be honest, I can imagine better rewards), and the first place will receive a trip to one of the agency's relief operations (again, I can imagine better rewards, for example money, material goods, or just about anything else). The agency has its own video to give those budding filmmakers a shining example; it shows some differently sized people stuffing themselves with hotdogs. You get the idea, now get to work!