The Youngest Candidate: Four Youths That Voted For Themselves Before Most Of Us Voted At All
by JAMES ROCCHIO, Causecast Editor
Debuting at the 2009 LA Film Festival on June 25th, 27-year-old Causecast leader Jason Pollock’s feature length documentary The Youngest Candidate follows four electoral candidates on their campaign trails. What made David Letterman and Oscar-winner Lawrence Bender want to produce it? Jason is older than all of these candidates, by nearly a decade. There is Tiffany Tupper, an 18-year-old School Board Candidate from Pennsylvania. Raul De Jesus grew up in gangland and at 20 is a mayoral candidate in Hartford, Connecticut.
Down the coast, Ytit Chauhan, a 19 year old that bounced around the country with his single mother, is running as a City Council Candidate in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Lastly, George Monger, raised in Memphis, Tennessee, campaigns as a City Council Candidate in his home town of 18 years.
Once an assistant to Michael Moore, Pollock powerfully delivers the story of four young adults that do not see themselves as such. Not yet old enough to rent a car, the four candidates face social and racial barriers that coldly remind the audience how far our society has to come. Pollock concurrently shows the faces of a youthful, hopeful, and progressive movement that refuses to ignore how far we have come already. “America’s youth need a wake-up call,” says Pollock. These four have answered.
Watch the trailer here, or buy tickets to the festival.
- Posted by Causecast
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