Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards

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.

Bonairean youth are often stereotyped as just hang out either looking for trouble or not doing anything productive. The truth is that the majority of Bonairean young people want to make their dreams become a reality but for some, it is a struggle. Unfortunately, many have given up. But the good news is that we can do something about that. We can make the youth's voice and dreams be heard. We can empower the youth in our communities by providing them with the skills they need to effect change on Bonaire. The we set-up a town-hall meeting in each town where the youth can share their vision for their own town. Their solutions should be in the following areas: - closing the culture gap (help prevent differences between cultures in their town and stimulate mutual understanding) - strengthen the intergenerational infrastructure (bringing seniors and youth together) The ideas need to be narrowed down the top 3 best ideas for each area. After this the youth should brainstorm on activities for the two areas. Finally the youth should implement the ideas themselves using youth media, social media and music.

"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...

We want to make a change in our community by utilizing media to raise awareness. We will work together with F.A.T and VOW Media who will help train us in multimedia skills so we can create photography, a radio show and short films to campaign our cause. We will then use this media online and also through screenings and exhibitions to start a campaign in our local community and policy makers.

Over the past few months I've noticed that get some of my best ideas while traveling on public transportation. The video is about finding importance in something routine. I read some of my thoughts about travel and recorded myself playing ukulele for this project.

This piece explores how dance can motivate and inspire individuals to become leaders in their own lives. The choreographer uses personal experiences and music as the inspiration for his movements.

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.

This is a kind of documentary and interview/reporting film about teenagers' early child-taking. In our home, Hungary there are many teenagers, who are very young mothers, we know some of them, most of them are roma girls. We would like to reflect on a serious problem with our short documentary. We collected several opinions, and as well, told our opinions during the movie

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

This documentary explores what all humans have in common. Although we all have very different experiences and backgrounds, there are a few commonalities that bring us together. This is a beautiful depiction of that commonality through the voices of youth.

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.

“The Way it Is” is a short documentary-style film featuring the youth of Stonegate, an underserved community in Etobicoke, Canada. The film features youth stories giving voice to what the Stonegate community means to them as individuals and as a group. In addition, they interviewed area residents to learn their perspectives. The Stonegate Community Health Centre (SCHC), which runs youth programs, was the target audience. They experience challenges engaging Stonegate youth. The screening provided a starting point for discussion between the youth and SCHC about how they could better engage and serve the youth of Stonegate.

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.

"Why I Write" written and performed by Canice Munroe.

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.

The overall intent of the film is to convey through art and interviews the need for significant funds to give the Healing Paintbrushes Project the ability to provide art and technology resources to children in hospitals.

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.

The object of FotoSynthesis is to create a self-sustaining education program to connect middle school students in the DC area with middle schools students from around the world through a combination of social media and photography. Students will share photographs online to establish communications, practice a new art form, and learn the importance of social media. The curriculum will also include reflective writing prompts which will meet national 6th grade writing and reading standards. By combining education, photography, and social media, we seek to emphasize the equal worth of different cultures by highlighting similarities and fostering respect for differences.

This PSA inspires our school and community to take action and make the world more sustainable.

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.

This documentary was made in spring 2012 to tell the story of what it is like to live undocumented in this country.

With Incomparable, Meralney shares the process of self-acceptance she went through. Incomparable tries to reach the 85% of young girls that compare their beauty with other's beauty. For more information please visit: http://youtu.be/AqHbUsvwWCk

A young man is determined to get the attention of a young woman. He is successful with using his phone to communicate with her-- but her insecurities may get in the way of his efforts of trying to get to know her.

The idea for the project came after the discussion with the students on the issues in the community and ways to solve them. Students recognized the importance of communication - at home, in the school and everywhere. They wanted to send that message through a short movie.

The Skin We're In was created to examine the importance of identity. In Baltimore, many young people are unaware of who they are. The film was made to show that unawareness of identity is a growing systemic problem within the city of Baltimore. Without a sense of identity, young people will be ineffective at success. The intended audience is young people and adults within the community so that they can realize how important it is to know "who you are". The is exhibited through asking young people, teachers and colleagues, and about how their identity were formed, successful or not.

Shot outside of Silicon Valley De-bug with two cameras, edited on Adobe Premier, dance moves provided by Tyree and Semaj.

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.

This song and music video was done with youth and seniors from Atlanta's Edgewood Community. "Never Understood what the wise told me, I had to look inside of me, to see the truth and set me free" The song highlights the benefits of our communities seniors citizens finding common ground through dialogue and artistic expression with the youth in the community.

Save, Sustain, and Strengthen is a spoken words video about how cultural values have changed and what has become of us in the world today.

In today’s society, more and more girls begin to personally harm and degrade themselves, striving for a “perfect body” that they can never achieve. We all must look and act the same in order to be “beautiful”. Our project aims to show that all girls, no matter what, are beautiful. Each teenage girl feels insecure and self conscious, but if we choose to view ourselves positively, our inner confidence shines through. This project is aimed at teenage girls to support a positive self image within themselves. We chose to create a contrast in visual style and meaning by having the first half in black and white and the second half in vibrant color. With this contrast, we show how dark negative self perception can be and how reflecting more positively on yourself will bring color and confidence to your life.

This is a video explaining what in the capital of London, people never talk about maybe because they are shy, hiding a positive message behind it.

Ben and Kacey realized that many of the student videos we see have teenagers in them. They wanted to branch out and write something that also required someone who wasn't a teenager. They ended up writing a piece that worked well for Kacey's grandfather. Ben and Kacey wanted the viewer to see youth, no matter who was on stage.

Sandra makes a video poem about her life as artistic teenager.

Our grandparents were and are sources of inspiration for us and many other people. Sometimes elderly people are considered no longer viable in mind and body, but we know they have many skills, experience and love to offer

A heartening story of a Grandson's love for his Grandmother.

Doubt, some people doubt themselves others follow their dreams. Choose to succeed, and exceed expectations created by yourself. Choose not to doubt but to Achieve!

This is a video poem produced with images created through the use of Photoshop. Youth took photographs in a studio built with recycled material and edited them to illustrate a poem written by one of the participants. In some images, they mixed their own photographs with fragments of pictures from the Internet, but in a way that would not violate the established copyright rules. Stop motion techniques were also used to convey the message. This media was part of a bullying prevention campaign that aimed to sensitize youth regarding the respect for differences.

Every day we have to make decisions, and each decision will impact our lives in some way. We don´t know exactly how our future will be, but we can use the information that of today to build it as best.

Stop Motion Animation

Be The Change started from a simple class poem. After researching issues that face our world the students got together and created a group poem on the topic of change. Each line from the poem is the thoughts and ideas of different students.As the production of the video went underway the students felt that their voices much like the poem should overlap to drive the message home about change and how we all must work together to create a bigger picture.

A powerful film created to convince those who are self-esteem deficient and those who are going through tough times that there is a way through everything, whether it be through art, writing, or other means.

"Appreciation to Life" is a piece for those who are victims of bullying. I was a victim of bullying through out middle school and the thoughts that went through my mind was outrages and dangerous. I only could imagine what other victims of bullying was thinking. Fortunately I found the AYV program in the Boys and Girls Club, I wanted this piece to show that I understand and that there is hope.

Ciudad Colón, Costa Rica is a unique place. It is a beautiful city that give us many opportunities to enjoy life. Here we laugh, share, learn and grow with our families and friends. It is difficult to express in 60 seconds what does Ciudad Colón means to us, so we made our best effort and this is the final result :-)

The walking fed shows kids the advantages and disadvantages of healthy eating and especially eating breakfast. We want to inspire youth to get out have fun but also eat healthy or there are downfalls... Enjoy

Tevin, Joel, Alice, Ackeem and Alex applied independently to take part in the BFI Film Academy, a six week intensive filmmaking course delivered by Eastside Educational Trust. They were selected because they demonstrated a real passion for filmmaking and a desire to develop their skills beyond the work they were doing at school. With different backgrounds and levels of experience in filmmaking they came together as a team to create a short film – they contributed to all aspects of the production as well as attempting to achieve their own individual challenge in a specific role. The filmmakers wanted to take a light-hearted bitter-sweet view on how we aspire to be something we’re not.

Afon is a factory worker, he usually uses bamboo chopsticks for convenience. One day, he foamed and fainted because taking too much sulfite on bamboo chopsticks. Dying Afon met with the king of the hell, he told Afon bamboo chopsticks are harmful health and environment. Afon promised the king of the hell he will not adopt bamboo chopsticks anymore and become an environment pilot.

An ESL student is determined to get the attention of his crush. So he uses the universal language, science, to try and communicate with her.

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.

We made this video because we think that we are living in a world where people are hating too much, and they're forgeting one important thing in life, which is smiling. People should be happier, but they are always seeing the dark side of everything, and society is every day worse because they are telling people what they think that everyone is supposed to be like, and that's wrong: we all have the right to be what we want to be. We hope that this video, from our point of view, makes all of you to think about what can we do to change this.

Signs of domestic violence are not always recognized...Sometimes, they might be hidden, covered with a happy face.If we take a closer look, perhaps we will be able to notice the abuse and, hopefully, stop it! Violence against women and girls exists, we all know that, but how many of us do something about it? Daily abused women and girls all over the world suffer in silence, thinking it's fair to be treated like that...Do we think it's fair too? Let's care more!

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

This project encourages young people to work hard in order to reach their dreams. For more information please visit: http://youtu.be/OokeCjz_Xmg

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.

Young men should always choose the peaceful way to solve any problem they may have. Fighting is a primitive solution and it should be never chosen.

Do you ever wonder about the most important things in your life? What really makes you happy? For us, the most beautiful experiences are those we live with our families and friends. They are a gift that we must take care because no matter how far apart we are, if we are loved by someone, we will always be at home. "Dear Child" is a fictional story that tries to represent what we really mean

An aspiring young actor portrays a young man in an interview as he tells a vivid story of his friend, who is in trouble.

This piece depicts the life of a single person. As a child, he draws a picture. This picture is of what he hopes to be by the time he's grown up. As he grows up, he does things in order to ensure that he will reach his goal of becoming his ideal self. By the time he's reached adulthood, and become what he's always dreamed he would be, the man looks at the picture he drew. He realizes that he has spent his whole life up until this point trying to become who he is today. He's wasted his childhood and teenage years trying to grow up, when he should have been spending those years enjoying them, and now that he’s finally where he dreamed he would be, he wishes he could return to the past and begin again.

It's a song talking about a young man who tries to provide a decent living to his family

This humor-filled 3min music video that tells the story of a guy going through everyday life – unable to distinguish his life from a dream state performed by a band called Hang Time.

This music video was created to stimulate young people to work together as a team, because together everyone achieves more (T.E.A.M.). For more information please visit: http://youtu.be/1glI_uOUZKE

Our lives are a sequence of trial and error, at the end of our lives, death speaks with us

This video is about working hard to accomplish your goals. The video follows 2 modern teenagers; one male and one female. The teenage girl has a huge passion for dance but cannot not find the environment to release her creativity while the male is a talent artist/painter who is trying to make a name for himself. Both characters have goals they want to achieve but are struggling to do that along with other obstacles that get in their way from living their dreams.

This piece, an original rap about the serious issue of bullying, was a collaboration between 3 emerging artists from UpStar Records, a youth-led media project of Sunset Youth Services.

The music Video points out the fact that the youth always have something to say in one way or another and we the rest of the world ought to hear them out because its is the only way we can be able to rightly with their problems.

Never giving up as about a young man maturing and realizing the mistakes he made throughout his young life. He (in his older form, more professional) takes a drive and stumbles upon his younger self, still reckless, and immature, and knows there is a light at the end of the tunnel because he is never giving up on himself. All he needs is love and support to turn is life around.

Lost is a music video about how our cultural values have changed and what has become of values and us in the ever changing world.

Living my dream is a music video that encourages teenagers to never stop dreaming. It encourages teenagers to not let anything fear them when trying to goal their goal in life. This music video has been made by three girls that are very shy and quiet. However, participating in the AYV program they have gained confidence in themselves to create a music video and also perform their song in front a live audience at the AYV Bonaire 2013 Exhibition. For more information please visit: http://youtu.be/U1LRrsWNX1E

Jyothirgamaya explores the feasibility of using music as a tool for education. With the explosion of rap rhythms all over, we have used this genre to garner impetus in this music video. We have created this educational rap for students who need some fun and motivation.

"I See Myself..." is a LYRICAL Music Video by Kasiem Aboti Walters introducing himself as an individual, explain a little about what he does and his background information through Hip Hop/Rap. The song then goes on to explain that although Kasiem is a lyricist, dancer and so much more he would like to focus on expanding and promoting my new organization "Dehpeshcii Musiq Entertainment" once he graduates College. Dehpeshcii is a a Multi-Talented Movement created by Kasiem based out of New York City producing PURE UNSIGNED TALENT while educating young people and changing the face of entertainment.

Hope Road is a music video by East Palo Alto's H20 (Hip Hop Orchestra) a youth band performed hip hop instrumentation with guest rapper Chris Brown. "Hope" is the theme and the road traveled.

"Gifted" is a music video created by Juan Franco and Adan Ahumada from the Seven Trees Community Center in San Jose, CA. The music video follows a young break dancer through his struggles and adversity of a past injury and his ability to overcome regardless of other people's opinions. The original song concept is to focus on your own gifts and continue to push forward on your own journey through life.

This music video is about an emotional and physical journey that one takes in becoming a whole person- a person who knocks down barriers to let others in on a path to happiness.

Music Video for the Song Careless by DICE. Directed and edited by Narciso Martinez. Performed by Dice. This video was a story about violence (mainly gang) in urban areas and how it can affect anyone no matter what type of lifestyle you decide to live. When you are around gang life you have to be cautious no matter who you know. In the video, the rapper (Dice, Main Character) is confronted with the death of his best friend. Dice goes through a rebellious stage because of his friend's death and starts becoming a nuisance to society.

Be the one is a song written to bring awareness to everyone that we should stand up and fight for something with a purpose, even if we feel that we are the only one!

Basic sanitation is one of our fundamental needs. Every human being should have access to it. But sadly that’s not the case. Many government schools in India do not even get enough funding to fix/clean their existing toilets, that is if they have any Girls, especially opt out of school because of poor hygiene and lack of sanitation. Poor sanitation also causes the spread of many diseases which could otherwise be prevented. This youth artist worked with his mentor, Gautam, a member of the organisation Reap Benefit, and restored the confidence to attend school by physically clearing debris, cleaning toilets and cisterns, fixing pipes and creating green areas.They took up work that many of us would rather not take up. As a result of their efforts, toilets are now functioning and clean, water is available in the schools and grey water is being channelized to water small gardens that the youth artist has developed in the schools.

ARTIST STATEMENT Autism affects one in every 88 children are diagnosed with autism. Take into consideration that the average American family has two kids or more. That means that even MORE siblings are affected than those that are diagnosed! The stars of "Touched By Autism" are friends of Mia: Christian Baker is one of her friends who is part of her Sibling Group and Paul Mikulskis is a classmate of hers who she's known for years and attends Boston Latin School. Autism changes lives: those affected by autism would not be as compassionate, as patient, or as open to anybody's situation as they just naturally have to become when touched by autism. Anyone who is touched by autism is left a different person. "Touched By Autism" is to serve as an eye-opener that makes people more aware to the fact that autism doesn't just affect the person diagnosed: it affects every single person the autistic person meets. More than that, it affects the people closest to them: in their family and in age, the closest would be their siblings. Outsiders most times forget about how autism affects the siblings and this video is to enlighten others to remember everyone that is affected. The siblings, besides the diagnosed, are those that are affected by autism the most.

The Track” in Oakland, California is a known hangout for pimps and prostitutes, some of them under the age of 18. The Track is a film examining the problem of sexually exploited youth, and what young people can do to address this issue in their community.

It is well-known that youth are ignorant about current global issues, so we went out to interview our classmates as well as youth on the streets of Toronto for their thoughts and knowledge about real and made-up world issues.

In this video, Angelo brings the viewers in to the world of Marshall Maria. Marshal has been bullied since kindergarden. Angelo embarked on a mission to find out the role a parent play in supporting a child that is being bullied. As Angelo was listing to both sides of the story, he discovered that bullying shouldn't be taken lightly. Most of the time people don't really take a moment to realize that bullying is a real problem and that we all have to stand up and continue to raise awareness. The reason is that no matter what the circumstances, there is NEVER a reason to be a bully and bully someone.

My project is a documentary that takes place at a high school gym and it is about how people with challenges can still do great things such as weightlifting and even rise above their challenges.

"Life's a Fight" documents the issue of teenage bullying, and explores how the landscape has evolved to include not only the schoolyard, but the internet as well. In this film we hear stories from teachers, parents, and victims, and learn from a group of local teens who saw an opportunity to take a stand.

This documentary produced by apsa media centre youth, to create awareness in the parents and general public that how the children get affected psychologically by alcoholic parents.

The projects i short documentary made by Abdulhadi, capturing through it several reactions and inquiries from people from his life answering the question : How is Jordan with you ? Abed interviews some of his family and friends about how they relate to their country Jordan, specially in the current circumstances

My project is about HIV, and tries to show to the society how the person lives with pathology, how is developed the disease in the person, and how the professional reacts in front of this.

Check out the children of the ANPS, who are truly inspiring with their skills and their kindness. We, Dounia Project Participants, have produced this video to show people around the world and their communities that handicapable teens are courageous, smart, and ambition persons, who have dreams and hopes just like all other kids their age. During several weeks, We were honored to interact and establish friendly relationship with students of the Moroccan Association for the Hearing Impaired (ANPS), who have welcomed us with open heart and tons of smiles! And have we learned a lot! Most importantly, Kawtar, Khadija, Khalid, and Marwan showed us that A handicap isn't an obstacle to success, and that if you work hard towards your goals, nothing will stop you from reaching them, not even a difference that others consider a disability! Credits should also go to : Erwaoui marwan Khaliid Idbali Motasdik Kawtar Inawi Khadija And the Staff of the ANPS, who made it all possible.

Dreams Un-deffered is a documentary about young women and their dreams. The film explores girls' aspirations, their struggle to pursue them and the promise and hope for young women pursuing their dreams.

Artist Statement - Celestine He, Jacquelyn Ho, Linda Qin and Clare Zhou Upon the unpredictable road of life, steep hills and low valleys will continuously attempt to hinder your efforts to succeed. Da Capo (a musical term in Italian meaning From the Beginning) follows the journey of a talented young girl, passionate about music, as she struggles through a tragic and dejecting accident that temporarily causes her to lose motivation. As she hits this bump in the road, however, her perseverance and pure dedication to music encourage her to keep her head up, to not lose sight of the finish line, to keep on playing, Da Capo.

The alarmingly materialistic culture of modern society begins at childhood. Our video observes the correlation between media exposure and consumerism, explores the relationship between advertisers and children, and offers suggestions for raising a new generation free from the grips of materialism.

Daniella, Josh and Phoebe applied independently to take part in the BFI Film Academy, a six week intensive filmmaking course delivered by Eastside Educational Trust. They were selected because they demonstrated a real passion for filmmaking and a desire to develop their skills beyond the work they were doing at school. With different backgrounds and levels of experience in filmmaking they came together as a team to create a short film – they contributed to all aspects of the production as well as attempting to achieve their own individual challenge in a specific role. Unlike many of the participants, these students decided to focus on a documentary about a subject which is very close to their hearts. It was hard work but their perseverance paid off and they were able to meet and interview many people to try and effect change in their community.

Listen to personal stories by youth in Calgary about bullying and their ideas on how to solve it. The youth talk about statistics on bullying, give personal stories and give ideas on how to solve bullying.

This film looks at the successes of Canada in terms of its music, culture, languages and the integration of different cultures into the nation. Students from Mexico visited Canada to create this film with Canadian students and to celebrate the diversity and hope for the future that exists in a country which is as diverse as Canada.

We’ve been talking and sharing stories with students from Egypt and Chicago. We’ve been learning about what life is like in both countries. Getting to know other people from other parts of the world through video clips and online platforms has been a great experience. We also loved how different people from different cultures can be; yet they manage to find what can draw them closer.

This music video is a collaboration between the Peapod Academy at MACLA in San Jose, CA and the Bonaire AYV Site. The video emphasizes the need to continue to fight and strive to reach your goals, while continuing to run and reach your dreams by any means.

This film, made collaboratively by students from Instituto Blaise Pascale, Mexico and St. Patrick's Intermediate School, Canada. The film examines the role of teachers and similarities and differences between Mexican and Canadian education. The students created this animation together, forming strong friendships and learning a lot about each others' cultures during the process. The result is an interesting and dynamic film which will be of interest to people of any age and background.

This film was made by students from Oaxaca, Mexico and Ottawa, Canada during an AYV visit to Ottawa, Canada. The students saw that their film-making group was incredibly diverse and represented seven countries among the seven team members. This inspired them to create a film which represented the diversity they saw in their group and reflected the diversity of Canada as a whole. The students profile the diversity of their group while explain why people came and come to Canada, and what they achieve there. The highlight of the film is that the students realise that Canadian people from all cultures come together in peace and work together to create a multicultural and happy environment in which to live.

My project is about thinking about our future. It combines motion graphics and creativity to ask the viewer what will you do.

This project was created during an "upstanding" assignment where students where asked to use multi-media to convey a message about an important social issue. Dhenzel chose homelessness and used his animation narrative approach to see allow viewers to see through the eyes of a victim.

A call for opinions and dialogue. Current issues from the aftermath of 2012 that has effected the youth of London.

This stop motion animation is about what not to do when handling a bullying situation and reacting badly. This is what happens when these fictional characters let things go too far.

A young man lost in the world looking for a passion

This traditional multi-plane animation is about the power of creativity: a kid, from a young age is trained to be an assassin but is aspired by an arts school next door. He escapes the life others wanted for him to embrace the life he wants and creativity is his prevailing weapon.

It is a kids book on how our daily habits can effect the environment badly and how to fix our mistakes.

This media piece is about believing in your own dreams and not preventing your own fears to hinder you from reaching your goals in life. Tansy used Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere to create a fun animation that encourages teens from 12-19 years to reflect on the fact that dreams can come true. After a long process of brainstorming on the right words for the media piece, Tansy constantly received feedback from her peers AYV students. This project was exhibited at the AYV Bonaire 2013 Exhibition. For more info visit: http://youtu.be/jRTjOaH2PRY

Are we contributing to create a better world? We would like that all the people in the world reflect about their relations with others. Perhaps, if we begin to treat others as we would like to be treated, the world would be a better place for everyone. The change starts with you!

In this stop motion, a man and woman are created out of clay and produce off-spring because of love and they face the pressures of life only to emerge changed.

My AYV project is about A tree. The whole purpose of it is to inform my audience that saving trees not only helps the enviornment. But also helps maintain life.That is why I entitled it "Life". Thats what it conveys throughout my project basically.

I’m Dillan and I collaborated with a few of my classmates, Harrisson Georgiou and Shahab Hendizadeh in creating an awareness announcement; our statement is as followed: Lets be real. The world’s available freshwater supply is declining at an alarming rate. We were assigned to create a PSA and thought that this was the perfect opportunity to alert the public on this abandoned issue. We decided unanimously that the audience should be everyone. We decided to pursue the PSA the way we did because it really shows the problem in a different way; a way that will not only attract a larger audience but will also persuade the viewers to do their part. It certainly persuaded us to do our part.

This is a story about the little poor kite and its owner. This film was written and produced by a group of young fellows, aged 12~17.

This media piece is about changing your community one act of kindness at the time. Jeanviêr used Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere to create a fun and creative animation to encourage teens on a easy and practical way to contribute to their community. Each small act of kindness is a step towards a better world. This project was exhibited at the AYV Bonaire 2013 Exhibition. For more information please visit: http://youtu.be/6p79Z_WR3qg

This video was created with the theme of loneliness and friendship. The robot’s desolated area gives a solitude surrounding, however when the rat comes into to play, it resembles a sense of fun and companionship. Together they become friends and accompany each other in the abandoned junk yard. In addition, I was inspired to make the theme because with friendship you can accomplish much more than without anybody at all.

Fried Chicken is a short PSA aimed to educate young people about the food system and to get them thinking about where their food comes from before they buy it.

Eternal Scroll depicts the all too common issue of procrastination and easily accessible social media. Inspired by Strawberry Bootlaces, Eternal Scroll demonstrates the issue through a narrow yet generic perspective of an average student caught between the immediate entertainment of Tumblr and the long term benefits of academic excellence. The storyline directly involves the viewer allowing the audience to directly relate to the issue presented. Eternal Scroll combines animation and video footage and is presented in an exaggerated manner that is humorous and memorable thereby spreading awareness of the issue in a simple yet entertaining way.

Students worked with the theme of animation to create a piece of film which examined the importance of being pro-active in helping to save and positively change the environment. The students used their creativity to make an animation which makes use of solely recycled materials and which is interesting to an audience which is international and crosses all age boundaries. The students used 411 to make this short animation which incorporates both humans and aspects of design which are created by hand.

This animations try to show different profiles of job candidates, giving tips to other youths about what to do and not do in a job interview.

A stop motion animation made by taking pictures frame by frame on a camera. It's a metaphor for life and art, showing that art can spring out of anything in any form or manner to take any shape.

Students look at social issues related to their community. In this short documentary, students look at immigration and the effects it has on Watsonville CA.

In this video 2 middle school students discuss how to create economic equality for everyone.

Cyber bullying through text and on-line occurs daily, but most of us don't notice. This PSA encourages people to be aware.

Two brothers try to think of a film topic in an investigation of what creativity looks like.

In this video, Samuel is discussing the importance of education and how critically important it is to give children adequate chance for learning and education for having a better life, especially in a developing country like our society where those who don't get such a chance will usually be living in very poor communities missing a lot of minimum levels of clean and healthy environment.

Thousands of children in Africa are abducted into war every year by corrupt soldier militias. These child soldiers are placed into extremely violent situations and girls are frequently abused and forced into unimaginably heinous acts. As 8th grade students living in Chicago, we felt we could most greatly help children forced into warfare by publicizing a story that has been repeated throughout the world far too many times. We intend this piece for other teenage children like ourselves as well as adults who may be unaware of these atrocities. This piece is prominently displayed on our school’s online digital showcase.

A youth has a beverage stolen by a bully. While trying to leave, other youth stop him with signs containing information about bullying and advice. This video was made Wahkiakum County 4-H After School Media Club.

In our group we experienced what students have on teachers and how it reflects the students' performance and motivation in the class. Students should be more aware of their attitude towards their education. We chose to make a youth video about expressing the relationship between the student and the teachers. To portray the message, we interviewed teachers as well as students about one's feeling about the other individual. In the beginning of the video we introduced the topic in the terms of the student's point of view in a school scene. We started with students’ opinions on general school questions, in order to obtain the students' attention on the video's subject. Afterwards we obtained information on teachers' reflections on how important their job and their relationship with each other. In the program we used transitions; we also filmed the hallway scene on a hand held device for an aspect from a student. As a group we wanted it to be cartoonish so it would look flamboyant. The beginning and the end stand out in our film the most. We want others to see that they are a part of it. And we want to see improvement in students. The audience should feel that they should change for the benefit of the teachers, their peers, and most importantly themselves. We all learned how to use the Adobe Premiere program, how to use a camera, and how to interview people. Relating to our topic we learned how students affect the teachers. We have learned the appreciation of filmmaking. One negative thing we can include is that the program repeatedly shut down, it made it difficult for the project to prosper in a way that we planned.

We decided to choose this topic because we feel everyone is insecure about something and we wanted to address some of our insecurities. We interviewed students whom had insecurities, and we used the most common topics. We wanted our peers to relate to them. We had three students draw how they view themselves and then how society viewed them so we took a full body shot. I think what stood out in the film was the imagine in the end we wanted to inspire others to be themselves and to love who they are as a person regardless of what society says. We want others to see that they are not alone. We want everyone to try not judging a book by its cover. We learned how much everyone struggles with different things on a daily basis and just because they smile and dress nice doesn't mean that on the inside they feel okay.

This Video is about School Bullying. Bullying is a serious problem in Japan. So we want you to think about this problem by seeing our Video.

What do you imagine? Youth share their ideas.

Anti Bullying PSA

110 Degrees is a short feature about father whom encounters a small accident at work, which reminds him of a dramatic childhood incident. The short feature was inspired by a new broadcast and true events.

Adobe Youth Voices Film Camps provides to youth the opportunity to create high-quality youth-produced media created to address critical issues and effect positive change. Students gathered at the Adobe Headquarters in San Jose, CA to learn how to take their filmmaking to the next level.

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.

Based on a true story. A story of two siblings separated at a very young age. Both journey through similar challenges and obstacles while separated, but manage to help each through the hardships after being re-connected.

Based on a true story. Based on a true story. For Granted is a powerful story that uses conflict and unique cinematography to make the audience gain an up-close perspective on the actor's struggle.

A girl wants to be a member of a local stunt team, although she struggles with her own inability and must decide whether to work towards her dream or give up. This comedy focuses on story telling without the use of dialogue, focusing our attention to the imagery and the actors themselves.

Gifted is a song about pursuing your dreams and goals with the gift that you were born with. The music video follows a young man’s journey of becoming a b-boy champion despite all of the obstacles and challenges he may face along the way.

A young adolescent girl feels she trapped in her own life surrounded by negativity and destruction. Will her sense of hopelessness push her over the edge or will an act of kindness prevent her from falling off.

Based on a true story. A young man starts his day early at work while practicing for a phone call that will determine whether or not if he will be going to college. Unfortunately, it is not the practicing he has to worry about.

A documentary about changing the perception of the homeless in downtown San Jose. Hear from the homeless themselves as they share their stories.

A story of 3 teenage boys who’s lives would have taken a different turn if it wasn’t for the Alum Rock Youth Center. Despite all of the negativity and challenges of growing up in an underserved community, they still manage to positively influence one another, while finding a safe place to call home.

110 Degrees is a short feature about father whom encounters a small accident at work, which reminds him of a dramatic childhood incident. The short feature was inspired by a new broadcast and true events.

Every day our lives are filled with choices whether we choose to acknowledge them or not. Some of our choices are even consequences of previous decisions influenced by others, but during that deciding moment, we ultimately make the call. See how one teenager uses his mysterious judgment during an intense robbery.

Transferring Creative Energy One Breath At A Time" is the story of 5 youth from East Palo Alto who have identified a gift or talent they possess. Collectively, they have chosen to share these gifts and talents by joining together and defining themselves as the EPA Poets. Using Art, Spoken Word, Music, Photography and Basketball, they demonstrate the power and ease of transferring creative energy amongst each other and are committed to paying it forward in their community.

My PSA is an effort to get the word our at our campus that we need to take better care of our campus and to inspire others to KEEP IT CLEAN.

The Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards is an international juried media competition that recognizes projects that best illustrate the program’s ‘Create with Purpose’ philosophy. On June 18, 2012, we recognized extraordinary youth media by announcing the winners of the first ever Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards online to a global audience. Now we are taking the celebration to the next level by introducing a live event series called Aspire Awards Prize Patrols.

A fast-pace short film in which the filmmakers hope to engage more people to participate in our democratic process.

This is an animation collective, our members made this animation in January to April and the mentor participates Claudia Niño.

In this video Paula shows the pollution and she talks about the damage to our environment and ourselves.

The Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards is an international juried media competition that recognizes projects that best illustrate the program’s ‘Create with Purpose’ philosophy. On June 18, 2012, we recognized extraordinary youth media by announcing the winners of the first ever Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards online to a global audience. Now we are taking the celebration to the next level by introducing a live event series called Aspire Awards Prize Patrols.

The Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards is an international juried media competition that recognizes projects that best illustrate the program’s ‘Create with Purpose’ philosophy. On June 18, 2012, we recognized extraordinary youth media by announcing the winners of the first ever Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards online to a global audience. Now we are taking the celebration to the next level by introducing a live event series called Aspire Awards Prize Patrols.

The Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards is an international juried media competition that recognizes projects that best illustrate the program’s ‘Create with Purpose’ philosophy. On June 18, 2012, we recognized extraordinary youth media by announcing the winners of the first ever Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards online to a global audience. Now we are taking the celebration to the next level by introducing a live event series called Aspire Awards Prize Patrols.

The Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards is an international juried media competition that recognizes projects that best illustrate the program’s ‘Create with Purpose’ philosophy. On June 18, 2012, we recognized extraordinary youth media by announcing the winners of the first ever Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards online to a global audience. Now we are taking the celebration to the next level by introducing a live event series called Aspire Awards Prize Patrols.

The Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards is an international juried media competition that recognizes projects that best illustrate the program’s ‘Create with Purpose’ philosophy. On June 18, 2012, we recognized extraordinary youth media by announcing the winners of the first ever Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards online to a global audience. Now we are taking the celebration to the next level by introducing a live event series called Aspire Awards Prize Patrols.

Adobe Youth Voices is the signature philanthropic effort of the Adobe Foundation intended to empower youth and educators through media making experiences that promote social change. As a part of this effort, the Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards celebrates the extraordinary work of young media artists from around the world by recognizing top talent in media production.

A stop motion piece about how "art is" for one student.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards Prize Patrol in Salk Lake City

Through a series of vignettes, the movie explores the memories, emotions, and benefits of eating healthy food. It takes the audience on a journey of savory sweet memories. The movie was a classroom collaboration and a culmination of student learning, field trips, and student writing.

"This is me" is a short PSA about being proud of being who you are no matter what that may be.

We chose the topic of teen to parent relationships to focus on because we wanted to show how important teens and parents’ relationships really are. We wanted to show that parents’ roles in teens’ lives are necessary in order for teens to graduate from high school and become successful individuals. According to the statistics that we researched, teens without parents are twice as likely to drop out of school, become drug addicts or engage in sexual activity at an early age. Children who die from abuse or neglect or poverty are usually parentless. We want our peers to know that it is important to have a good relationship with their parents. We used statistics and individual interviews of teens that have distinguished relationships with their parents. The interviewees weren’t afraid to show their true emotions, which helped get the message across. Although the students were sensitive towards the topic, they were still willing to be openly honest and show true emotion because they know the importance of the issue as we do. We want others to see that the relationship between a parent and a teen is important because it influences us on whether we will be come strong individuals in the future and be successful or not. We want others to make an effort on improving their relationship between either their parents, or their own kids. We learned that every student responded differently, yet they still felt it was a strong topic. We also learned some interesting stories about our peers.

PSA on Body Image

The message of our project is that it only takes a few words to either hurt someone's feelings or to comfort them. Our main character is a new girl at school who is very affected by what her classmates have to say throughout her first day.

Our project is about a young boy who struggles to be confident. When a confident cool guy shares the secret of high self esteem with him, he gets the courage to participate in school, and to talk to a special girl.

We hope to make people more aware of the everyday human activities that contribute to global warming. Our story shows the affects that global warming has on the polar bears.

Adobe Youth Voices compilation video to showcase prize patrol visits to New York, South Lake City and Denver

Demonstrating the power of technology to engage middle- and high school-age youth, Adobe Youth Voices provides breakthrough learning experiences using video, multimedia, digital art, web, animation, and audio tools that enable youth to explore and comment on their world.

This project highlights two cousins and how they love to dance. On a street that is notorious for its violent crimes these two members are able to find something else to do that keeps them out of the dirt that surrounds them.

Each one of us has potential. Our faces and dreams, tells all.

A short PSA featuring words of wisdom from young people to young people.

Adobe Youth Voices Live event in New York City

"Angel in My Sky" is a coming of age story of young man who searches for answers during a tragic time in his life. He learns a powerful lesson in faith, forgiveness, and staying true to your word.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards on the audio category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category.

Animation

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards on the audio category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the documentary category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards on the audio category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards on the audio category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards on the audio category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards on the audio category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards on the audio category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards on the audio category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards on the audio category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards on the audio category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards music video on the audio category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the narrative category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the narrative category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards music video on the audio category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards music video on the audio category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the music category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the documentary category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the documentary category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the narrative category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the narrative category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the narrative category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the narrative category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the poetry category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the poetry category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the poetry category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the poetry category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the poetry category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the poetry category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the poetry category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the poetry category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the poetry category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the poetry category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the poetry category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the poetry category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the poetry category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the poetry category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the poetry category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the poetry category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the poetry category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the poetry category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the poetry category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards finalist on the animation category.

Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards introduction by MTV's present Sway.

Adobe Youth Voices Lead Educator training in India

A part narrative, part spoken word piece about the connection that 4 students share with their educator.

A story about perserverance and the struggles of life.

A teenage girl named Prudence deals bullies in her day to day life, and the youth around her that decide to do something about it.

In this film short, students disucss their life ambitions through animated typography and how education factors in.

A short film about the choices we make that can lead two people that start out in relatively the same place, to very different destinations.

An uplifting morality film about removing the mask of ignorance and apathy and helping out your fellow person.

A short meta comedy about coming up with an idea for a film for a film camp.

An educational piece on the history of African queens, done through spoken word as a call to action for their ancestors

Produced by students from Watsonville High School during the 2012 Adobe Youth Voices Film Camp at Cinequest

A part magic, part moral tale where imagination and emotions create reality and provides a harsh lesson for following the golden rule.

Music video piece about a young person's relationship and forgiveness.

A piece about knowing who your friends are, and more importantly, who you are.

A classic tale about not being greedy, and being careful what you wish for.

3 girls decide that they can make a better film than hollywood and let their imaginations run wild