For Psoriasis Awareness Month, the National Psoriasis Foundation is hosting a Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Online Film Festival. Throughout the month of August, psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis sufferers and their friends and family are invited to submit a short video (no longer than 7 minutes in length) about psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. The various categories include:

Youth
Hey kids! Get our your video camera and show us what it’s like to be a young person with psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis.

Documentary
Document a day in your life, focus on treatment or how you take care of someone with psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis.

Action
Have you taken action recently to help find a cure psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis? Show how you are taking a stand through grassroots advocacy and volunteer activities.

Animation
Superheroes, space aliens and talking animals can all play a starring role when you tell the tale of life with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis using animation.

Comedy
Are psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis funny? No! But you can help bring a lighthearted spin on living with chronic disease when you submit a video to the comedy category.

Horror
Sometimes dealing with a chronic disease can be downright scary. Unleash your inner Hitchcock and create a video that will have the audience on the edges of their seats.

Music video
Got a song about psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis? This category encourages you to get out the guitars and let it flow.

The National Psoriasis Foundation is offering a $500 Visa gift card as the grand prize for the video that gets the most online votes. The deadline for submitting videos is August 28, 2011.

To find out more, go to http://www.psoriasis.org/pam.

We love this idea for raising awareness about the daily struggles of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis and look forward to seeing all of the videos at the end of the month!