Adobe Youth Voices program in Actin in London through the partnership with Eastside Educational Trust

A collaboration of three youth artists brought together by the passion of music. The video was made to showcase the connection three youth artists made while attending classes at MACLA. The intended audience are people who enjoy watching positive collaborations.

SHIFT student participant of the 2013 AYV Film Camp at SHIFT. SHIFT in partnership with Spy Hop Productions hosted a 3-week AYV film camp that culminated in a big-screen exhibition at the Tumbleweeds Film Festival, March 16. We selected 24 students from the ages of 13-19 from an applicant base of over 50. These teens produced six short films, typically in teams of three in three categories: music video, traditional animation and documentary.

Drugs Adolescents Against Drugs is a short film that describes an initiative lead by young people to limit the use and spread of drugs among Adolescents in Jerusalem. The message behind our film is directed to young people who are so close to be addicts and those who live in hard social situations and are attempted to try drugs one day. we want to use social media and our experience in media production to create an interactive facebook page where young people will watch our videos, read our messages and listen to their peers talking about their own experiences with addiction, and will send us their direct feedback. we think that the number of young people using facebook in Jerusalem is very high which will make our initiative a successful one. Our film tries to explain what we want to do and the main components of our initiative.

"A Voice for Orphans" is a self portrait video documentary in which a sixteen year old orphan called Kyomugisha Christine recounts her experiences as an orphan living alone. The Adobe Youth Voices learners of PMM Girls School created the media to highlight challenges faced by orphans, how they deal with these challenges and also to show that EVEN orphans live with dreams...

A short story of how the EOC Sanctuary's Safe Place helped a young person turn her life around.

The United States has a trillion dollar budget that is split up in a questionable manor. 64% of the budget goes toward the military leaving 36% towards the rest of spending such as education & sciences. These facts inspired me to write a song and create a video on what I would do with the US Trillion Dollar Budget if I was in control of it.

In our city we have many young artists. We made this video to express our admiration for them. It is also a tribute to all the young people in the world who are not afraid to follow their passions and creativity.

This animation/narrative explores a form of racism that the migrant community suffer from, yet not all of them are aware of. It identifies media as one of the tools used so stereotypical and degrading images are spread, and thus emphasizing that making media by our own hands is essential to counter it.

H.B. Beal Secondary School has been the major technical secondary school in London, Ontario, Canada since the year 1912. In that time, Beal has established itself as being at the forefront of practical, hands-on education. The school has always welcomed those eager to learn, even those whom other schools discarded. For over 50 years, Beal has also been the leader in Broadcasting Education across Southwestern Ontario. However, recently, due to limited funding and an economy that is getting poorer and poorer, Beal’s broadcasting program, “BTV”, is falling behind. In order to prevent this, BTV is teaming up with local news station, Rogers TV, to create a show for youth, about youth, and produced by youth. This is quite exciting for the students enrolled in the program, but with funds being at their current level, the show seems due to fail. Both those at Beal and those at Rogers TV believe that this youth-oriented television show is vital to improving conditions in a city with a 9.1% unemployed rate (2% more than the Canadian average). At Beal, approximately 25% of the student population is high-risk, and almost 5% of the students live on their own (the highest across the school board). With tv segments that will talk about youth issues such as drug abuse, food preparation, and mental health issues, we believe that we can be a great aid to these students as well as youth all across the viewership.