Survival and hope are messages that run through this year’s Democracy Video Challenge finalists from the Western Hemisphere.
The U.S. State Department-sponsored contest, now in its second year, challenges videographers the world over to describe what “Democracy Is…” in three minutes or less. This year’s contest attracted more than 1,600 submissions from people representing 111 countries. Eighteen finalists have been chosen from six different regions. The three finalists representing the Western Hemisphere are Franklin Pham, Juan Pablo Patiño Arévalo and Nicole Dalesio.