‘The Youngest Candidate’ is a feature length documentary film directed by Jason Pollock. It is produced by David Letterman’s company, Worldwide Pants, in partnership with Oscar winner Lawrence Bender (producer of ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, etc..) and Balance Vector Productions. It follows the story of 4 teens that ran for public office in America. Funny, inspiring, poignant, and ultimately uplifting, ‘The Youngest Candidate’ is not just a film about running for office. It is the coming of age story of four idealistic young adults who dared to confront the corrupt political systems in America. Through their journey these young candidates learn about fair play, leadership development, racism in politics, the importance of family, and many other lessons that they will carry with them throughout their lives. In the face of great adversity, these four young adults braved all the odds to make it to Election Day to show that regardless of the outcome, it didn’t matter… It’s all about how you play th http://theyoungestcandidate.com/main/News/tabid/58/BlogId/3/Default.aspx en-US theyoungestcandidate@gmail.com lommaj@gmail.com Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:47:35 GMT Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:47:35 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blog RSS Generator Version 3.4.0.39853 <p><img width="225" height="178" src="/main/Portals/0/si_UEw400_1New Yorker Logo 200w.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p><img width="166" height="166" alt="" src="/main/Portals/0/gothamist-logo.png" /></p> <p><img width="273" height="82" alt="Dodge Landesman, Jason Pollock, Youngest Candidate" src="/main/Portals/0/Banner-image-4.gif" /></p> <p>One of our favorite youngest candidate's this year is Dodge Landesman.&#160; He is 18 and running for City Council in the Big Apple!&#160; He just got some great press for The Gothamist, which is one of the biggest NYC blogs around &amp; The New Yorker Magazine, which is the most prestigous magazine in all of NYC!&#160; They wrote a cool piece on him and did and on-camera interview w/ him! Congrats Dodge! Keep up the awesome campaign! --jp</p> <p><a href="http://they http://theyoungestcandidate.com/main/News/tabid/58/EntryID/75/Default.aspx theyoungestcandidate@gmail.com http://theyoungestcandidate.com/main/News/tabid/58/EntryID/75/Default.aspx#Comments http://theyoungestcandidate.com/main/Default.aspx?tabid=58&EntryID=75 Tue, 19 May 2009 05:26:00 GMT 0 http://theyoungestcandidate.com/main/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=75