Enter the Supreme Court Best Video Challenge!

Breaking news!
There are FOUR NEW $1,000 prizes for best videos on the Supreme Court!
Scroll down on our voting page to submit your Supreme Court video

It’s also time for you to vote for your favorite Spark The Vote videos! YOU can help choose the winners in each category.

Each video was created to inspire voting for the future that most Americans agree on:

Climate Public Safety Healthcare Equality Liberty Honest & Fair Elections Democracy The Supreme Court

AND THE WINNERS ARE…

We’re announcing several winners each week during our Tuesday Coffee Chats up until Election Day (11/5)…

BEST SUPREME COURT VIDEO:

Thanks to the generosity of our Supreme Court award winner, Aaron Steinberg, we now have a new Supreme Court Challenge Submit your new entry at the bottom of our Voting page by October 29th 11:59pm ET.

“Well Why Do You Vote?” by Aaron Steinberg • Like, Comment and Share on Youtube

BEST DANCE VIDEO:

“Why Do You Vote? A Sikh Elder's Voting Reminder for the Sikh/Punjabi/Indian Community in the U.S.” by Nishkam TV - Bhumeet Singh Bhatia, Nivedita Sharma, Vansheeka Sharma, Aekem Deep Singh, Harbal Deep Singh • Like, Comment and Share on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Mastodon, Vimeo

BEST CLIMATE VIDEO:

“my experience of extreme weather | reflection on hurricane harvey 7 years later” by Nabila Wilson • Like, Comment and Share on YouTube, Instagram

BEST PUBLIC SAFETY VIDEO:

“Generation Lockdown” by Violeta Tablilla-Esquivel, Get Lit, Josh Castillos, Diane Luby Lane, Tiffany Ike, Shamikah Martinez • Like on Like, Comment and Share on Instagram

BEST HEALTHCARE VIDEO:

“Why I'm a Health Care Voter” by Laura Packard - Health Care Voter. Lovely by Alex-Productions | https://onsound.eu/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Like, Comment and Share on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Threads

BEST EQUALITY VIDEO:

“When you have two moms...” by Laurenzo • Like, Comment and Share on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram

BEST LIBERTY VIDEO:

TBA October 29th

BEST DEMOCRACY VIDEO:

TBA October 29th

BEST VOTING VIDEO:

TBA October 29th

BEST SONG VIDEO:

TBA October 29th

ADDITIONAL BEST SUPREME COURT VIDEOS:

TBA by Nov 5th

THE CHALLENGE

The Spark the Vote Social Media & Film Challenge is a non-partisan, nonprofit campaign that brings the power of social media and creative filmmaking to inspire voter turnout.

Nothing moves people more than personal stories, spoken from the heart.

Spark The Vote Challenge videos should inspire voter registration and voter turnout.

Videos MAY NOT discuss any candidates, political parties or be considered electioneering in any way. 

Read the Official Rules for The Challenge

Vote for your favorite Spark The Vote videos!

And Virtual Door Knock with us by liking, commenting and sharing the videos (or creating your own)

on TikTok, Instagram, Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, etc.!

SPARK THE VOTE!

Why? We want to inspire people to make sure they are registered and vote this year!

From now until election day, November 5th, LIKE, SHARE and COMMENT on all the Spark The Vote videos you see on socials. The more traction they get, the more voters we inspire! Sparking the vote together, we’ll light the internet on fire with voting for a future we all believe in!

You can still do your part for democracy by making more #SparkTheVote videos up until election day, they just won’t be eligible for our awards…

YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU!

IT’S EASY TO INSPIRE VOTER TURNOUT…

Bring some joy to your socials sharing why you vote!

Read our Participation toolkit, FAQs and Filmmakers Guide

EDUCATORS: Bring our Civic Engagement Exercise to

Campus using our Educators Guide

POSTS YOU CAN DO:

Your social media posts can be as simple as you sharing Why You Vote.

OR WRITE A SCRIPT AND GET CREATIVE!

Volunteer your storytelling talents to write, fun, creative short stories that inspire others, such as this one that Ed Begley Jr. made with his daughter Hayden for our climate.

We love inter-generational videos! Our first voting experience is often with our parents!

One Minute Reel - TikTok, InstagramYouTube, Facebook, Twitter

Ed Begley Jr. Climate Video - TikTok , Instagram, YouTube

Mimi Kennedy on Voting - TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn

Ed O’Neill - TikTok, Instagram 

Shepard Fairey - Instagram

Moby - TikTok, Instagram 

David Cross - TikTok, Instagram  

Annie Korzen - TikTok 

Calum Worthy - TikTok, Instagram  

Jane Hirshfield - Facebook

Laurenzo - TikTok, Instagram

Barrie Rose - TikTok

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LET’S DO THIS!

Gather friends to make a video. It’s more fun to do this collectively!

Read the FAQs and RULES

Create, post your Why Do You Vote Videos?

Sponsor an award

Partner with us

Share our voter tools to help people vote!

Questions? Email us!