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.

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.

Music Video to Polaroids and Film Song. The song itself speaks about identity of a girl in the modern era of chic and how society makes her feel when it comes to physical appearances.

Saturday Night Live Film Unit Editor, Adam Epstein details the insane schedules that create SNL film content and how Adobe tools help make it all possible.

Rhys Thomas, director/producer of NBC's Saturday Night Live Film Unit, needs every second. Learn why switching to Adobe Premiere Pro made the most sense for his fast-paced team.

Director/editor Kyle Patrick Alvarez reacts to new features in Premiere Pro Next and the "sheer extent of technology" that is NAB.

If we talked about one another in the way we talk about ourselves, we wouldn't have many friends. Learning to love ourselves is one of the most difficult thing for a person to do with everyone telling us how to look and act. But beauty is within us all, man or woman, it's there. We've just got to find it and accept who we are and accept the love we receive.

In a world, where young people slave away in front of screens. One teenager will break the cycle. Join us on our story of intrigue, drama, comedy, and the power of friendship. Experience first hand the peril and adventure that lies before our Hero. Will our Hero be able to defeat the dastardly villain that is sloth? Or will the Hero of this tale give in to the temptations of comfort?

This film is intended to bring more awareness about people who inflict harmful behaviors upon themselves. In order to help, one must understand and learn why people harm themselves intentionally.

A teenager, gets a nice surprise after making an unfair judgment about another teen’s appearance.