White House seeks submissions for first ever 'Student Film Festival'

Doug P. | 5:41 PM on November 25, 2013

The White House is sponsoring a student film festival, and as you can see by the White House’s tweet above, the deadline is JaMuary 29.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is also promoting the film festival.

ATTN student filmmakers: Submit your film for the 1st-ever @WhiteHouse Film Festival. http://t.co/UeGMql4yQm pic.twitter.com/Ei8JSJ0Dd2

— John King (@SecretaryKing44) November 25, 2013

The Obama administration is looking for short films which “highlight the power of technology in schools.” And if any student has a suggestion on how to fix that darned Obamacare website we’re sure that would be appreciated as well.

One Twitter user has gotten a head start on movie suggestions for the contest using the hashtag #WHFF:

https://twitter.com/jcruenv/status/405027882017107968
https://twitter.com/jcruenv/status/405037645102731264
https://twitter.com/jcruenv/status/405040791090761729
https://twitter.com/jcruenv/status/405042477687508992

Feel free to help him out, Twitter!