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Project Pushback Finalists

More than 8,300 votes were cast for 68 short videos submitted to Project Pushback. 
Collectively, they were viewed more than 60,000 times.

Watch the 11 videos that received the most votes below (there was a tie for 10th place) 
and view the others
here.

Now that public voting has ended, and our panel of expert judges (listed below) have individually
rated each video and selected our Grand Prize winner—who will receive a $2,500 prize.
 

Judges Panel

Paris Barclay is an award-winning television director and producer, with two Emmy Awards and two NAACP Image Awards, among others. Barclay's current projects include HBO's In Treatment and MTV's Pedro.

Sherri Brown Francois is the producer and director of True Life, MTV News and various documentaries.

Tracey Chang is a producer for the Vanguard Journalism department at Current TV, a cable television network founded by former Vice President Al Gore. Since 2005, she has covered a range of stories in countries including Pakistan, China, Colombia and Egypt.

Janet Choi is a producer at MTV in New York. A former international correspondent for Channel One News, Janet was also a reporter for KTLA's "Your LA with Janet Choi." She has produced four documentaries based on travels to North Korea, Cuba, Colombia and China.

Bruce Cohen is the Academy Award-winning producer of American Beauty, and his most recent film, Milk, was nominated for a best picture Oscar. Cohen also produced Big Fish and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar.

Rev. Art Cribbs Jr. is pastor of the San Marino Congregational Church and formerly was employed by KPIX-TV in San Francisco. Rev. Cribbs serves as a board member for several organizations, including the United Black Christians in Crisis Committee.

Chad Griffin is a seasoned political and communications strategist. Griffin raised money for the No on 8 campaign from celebrities such as Brad Pitt, Steve Bing and Ron Burkle. He also helped create anti-Prop 8 ads including the one featuring Sen. Diane Feinstein.

John A. Perez is a California Assembly member who has worked in the labor movement and has served as a board member for organizations such as AIDS Project Los Angeles, the Latino Coalition against AIDS and the California Center for Regional Leadership.

Cathy Renna is nationally recognized as a media relations expert. She was a major force behind the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). She is a founder and managing partner at Renna Communications, which specializes in LGBT issues.

Hilary Rosen is the managing partner of the DC office of the Brunswick Group, a London based PR and communications strategy firm. She is also an on-air Contributor for CNN and Washington Editor at Large for The Huffington Post.

Kirsten Schaffer is Executive Director of Outfest, the organization that produces the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Fusion: the Los Angeles LGBT People of Color Film Festival and the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation.

Judy Starkman is the co-owner of convergencefilms.com, an L.A.-based production company specializing in commercials and web-based films. In the past she has worked as a commercial director, a television news producer and a photojournalist.

Laurie Steuri is a social media marketing expert and serves as Chairman of the Board of Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio.  She works for the Procter & Gamble Company in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Andy Towle writes and runs the widely read and award-winning gay news blog Towleroad. Before Towleroad, he was editor-in-chief of Genre magazine and editor-at-large for Out Traveler.

Karin Wang, vice-president of programs at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, is a founding steering committee member of API Equality-LA, a coalition of LGBT and allied Asian/Pacific Islander groups working to advance marriage equality and promote positive images of LGBT Asians and Pacific Islanders.

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