Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards on the audio category.

"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...

In a social media tech class, Community School South students define and bring light to stereotypes. 16 students explore the positives and negatives of stereotypes.

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.

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.

The film includes imagery of flowers in a body of water (lyrics, music and singing written and performed by Julia Lawrence). The poem written by Julia Lawrence is displayed in each frame of the film.

YES film project designed by youth group of Shilpa Sayura Foundation to create Child Solder 90m film by up-scaling the Child Solder short created for Adobe Aspire Awards 2013 as a collaborative project between Kandy and Lahugala youth who live 250km apart. The project aims to provide a solution to Youth Employment while addressing the issue of social acceptance of child soldiers returning to civil society after rehabilitation. The YES film project plans to setup a youth social media enterprice, provide education, training and employment for youth to produce digital films on social issues and to become new genertion social film makers to make digital revenu and employment. The project hopes to become sustainable by creating revenue from community and business media services and providing media education setting up a mobile film school to reach under-served youth with creative talents to help them develop digital media skills to be employed in creative fields. This project addressing youth issues in education, training, employment and a globally important social issue of child soldiers shall be completed in one year with the guidance of AYV Lead educators and Film Industry professionals. Uniqness of YES Film Project is that it develops youth, produces a tangible social good and address a global issue concerned with global youth to make positive impact in Society.

This video tells a story about a young man who decides to follow his desire to rob a liquor store one day. The film becomes more intense when he reaches a moment that he has to "make the call" that decides his destiny. Through a symbolic phone call to his father, we see his can see his decision to seek new faith.

A young man goes to work practicing words for a phone call that decides whether or not if he is going to college.

A touching piece about a boy who takes things for granted and realizes too late that his mother is the most important part of his life.