U.S. Teenager Wins Award for Acerbic Disability Awareness Video

Benjamin Snow is one of five winners of a contest shown on the MSNBC website to "Film Your Issue." Mr. Snow's video explains how he feels about Hollywood's take on disabled people. The video titled "
Thumbs Down to Pity" is 58 seconds in length and shows clips of various disabled characters in movies such as "Rain Man", "Regarding Henry" and "Awakenings." Benjamin shows his own accomplishments in his video including earning two belts in Karate, paying his own bills and writing for his college newspaper. The award ceremony in which Benjamin was honored was June 19th at the United Nations.

From the article:
Benjamin Snow, 19, was one of more than 300 video producers who entered a contest to “Film Your Issue” in 30-60 seconds last May. The results were posted online where thousands of viewing voters selected Snow’s short video called “Thumbs Down to Pity” as one of the 35 best. A professional media jury then selected his creative entry as one of five winners.