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NEWS ARCHIVE 2005
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News Archive: This page includes press clippings archived for reference. Please note that some links may have expired over time.
• News Archive 2005. Includes all articles collected throughout the year 2005 • News Archive 2006. Includes all articles collected throughout the year 2006 • News Archive 2007. Includes all articles collected throughout the year 2007 |
Youth photo workshop shows teenagers' lives in Moldova. "Molesti - a village of children and old people" is the name of a photo-report presented at the opening of a photo exhibition in Chisinau. Hundreds of pictures were taken by children and young people aged between 14 and 21 as a the result of a photography workshop facilitated by UNICEF photographer Giacomo Pirozzi and supported by UNICEF Moldova in the summer of 2005. The best ones are now on display in Chisinau. Read More You can also View the Photo Essays online. Kids supplement - Total engagement (Media Week) Young people are now consuming media from a growing range of sources in the home, posing opportunities for advertisers and agencies. This article gives a great overview on the use of different media by teenagers in the UK. Read More. Ukrainian teenager wins Staying Alive Foundation Award Denis Stepura (19), from Kiev, is among the winner of this year's Staying Alive competition. The awards are given to young people as well as youth organizations engaged in grass roots HIV/AIDS awareness, education and prevention campaigns. Denis is the only winner from Europe. All other winners come from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Read More. Teen Works 2005: Young People and the Internet. The objective of the one day conference explored young people's awareness and use of the Internet and mobile phones, and look at current and upcoming trends in this area. The conference was organised by WISE KIDS and ITWales and was held as part of ict forum wales 2005, in Swansea. Read more A Teenager's Dream. Ukrainian teenager: "My biggest dream is to run a youth radio or TV station. Denis Stepura (19) lives and studies in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. He discusses in this interview his work with media and his hopes for the future. Read More. The silver screen inspires young minds to think big. (Edutopia) Juniors and seniors from the southeastern Illinois communities of Effingham and Teutopolis participate in a high school course called Multimedia and Film Design. The class is designed to help kids learn storytelling techniques through the use of contemporary technology, including film and video production.Read More.Teen Content Creators and Consumers. (PEW/Internet) More than half of online teens have created content for the internet; and most teen dowloaders think that getting free music files is easy to do. American teenagers today are utilizing the interactive capabilities of the internet as they create and share their own media creations. Fully half of all teens and 57% of teens who use the internet could be considered Content Creators. They have created a blog or webpage, posted original artwork, photography, stories or videos online or remixed online content into their own new creations. Read More. International Children's Day of Broadcasting celebrated (UNICF) Around the world Children and broadcasters alike celebrated International Children's Day of Broadcasting December 11 with special programmes on TV and radio stations around the world. From Nicaragua to Jordan, from Denmark to Botswana, children took over the airwaves. ICDB is celebrated on the second Sunday of every December - the day when broadcasters globally 'Tune in to Kids'. This year the power of sport as a tool for development and peace was the theme of the event. Read More International organization to publish peace building guide for youth radio. (UNICF) A new guidebook to be released in January is aimed at helping African radio stations - the continent's most influential medium - encourage peace through the use of youth programs. This latest guidebook focuses on youth radio and its potential to prevent conflict through reporting. Read More "Open Up The Airwaves to Us" (UNICF) Young Egyptian Broadcasters say they're ready to play a bigger part in the making of quality television programmes for child and adolescent audiences. The message came from youngsters involved in a UNICEF-sponsored pilot Television show, entitled "SOTNA" (Our Voice), that was launched to coincide with the annual International Children's Day of Broadcasting (ICDB). Read More Students Find Their Voices Through Multimedia. (Edutopia) Until Consuelo Molina discovered the San Fernando Education Technology Team (SFETT), she wasn't particularly engaged in school, and her extreme shyness kept her from being anything more than an uncomfortable, silent observer in class. However, through the technology team program and its photography, videotaping, sound recording, editing, and presentation instruction and equipment, Molina's voice is now loud and clear, and her opinions are known around the world. Read More. You, Me and HIV/AIDS. Workshop for young TV producers concluded in Accra (UNESCO). A two-week workshop on HIV/AIDS for young television producers was held in Accra with a call to combat stigma and discrimination against people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS. HIV/AIDS in the Documentaries by Young African TV Producers. (UNESCO) Twelve young television producers from Francophone Africa met on 22-27 November 2005 in Bordeaux, France to edit and finalize their short TV documentaries depicting views and opinion about HIV and AIDS from their respective countries of origin. The programmes make up part of a collection to be shared globally with TV broadcasters as the first international distribution of productions initiated through the Global Network of Young TV Producers on HIV and AIDS workshop series. Read More Students with video camera catch church thief. (Newsday.com) Two Long Island 14-year-olds working on a student documentary helped catch a man stealing money from a church's votive candle donation box. The students were videotaping a documentary at Our Lady of Lourdes Church on Nov. 13 when they recorded a man allegedly tampering with the boxes. They gave their tape to a Malverne police officer. Read More Teen Advocates of Hope: A Youth Photo Project. (Save The Children) In Ethiopia, teens who have volunteered to become "advocates of hope" are demonstrating what World AIDS Day really means by making a difference in their communities. Fourteen teens were given digital cameras for a week in August and asked to document their lives and ways they were keeping the promise of fighting AIDS by caring for one another, their families, their communities and themselves. Read More. Teen Content Creator and Consumers. (Scout Report) With more and more young people using the internet for a wide variety of purposes, there has been an increased effort to study what exactly they arte doing online. This latest research report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project looks at how teenagers create content for the internet (such as weblogs) and how they choose to download content off the internet. Authored by Amanda Lenhart and Mary Madden and released in November 2005, this 29-page report reveals that over half of all the teens surveyed for this report create content for the internet and that thirty-eight percent of all teens surveyed read blogs. The report also contains a number of helpful charts and tables that will be of interest to those with an interest in the changing nature of internet usage patterns. Download Report. A Global Young TV Producer's Network on HIV/AIDS (UNESCO) You, Me and HIV/AIDS is a project that attempts to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases by upgrading the knowledge and production skills of young TV producers who are currently engaged in health reporting for television in developing and least developed countries. Hollywood vet helps troubled teens create. Create Now, a non-profit, encourages artist expression among high-risk kids. The work of one individual has made a change in the lives of many youth who have found creative activities a positive avenue for expression. Read More. Teen Content Creator and Consumers. (Scout Report) With more and more young people using the internet for a wide variety of purposes, there has been an increased effort to study what exactly they arte doing online. This latest research report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project looks at how teenagers create content for the internet (such as weblogs) and how they choose to download content off the internet. Authored by Amanda Lenhart and Mary Madden and released in November 2005, this 29-page report reveals that over half of all the teens surveyed for this report create content for the internet and that thirty-eight percent of all teens surveyed read blogs. The report also contains a number of helpful charts and tables that will be of interest to those with an interest in the changing nature of internet usage pattern. Read More (PDF) Egyptian Children's Animation Documentary Nominated for Prestigious Television Award. Cairo, November 14, 2005: A documentary film showcasing the work of young Egyptian animation film-makers has been nominated for an award at next week's International Emmy Awards Gala in New York. Adolescent from Moldova Wns International Video Festival. Ionela Costachi (15) from Moldova won the Tommy Award of the International One-Minutes Video Festival, in the Inside-Out junior category. The Festival, organized this year for the 6th time, took place on Sunday, November 13th, in the Paradiso Concert Hall in Amsterdam. The One Minutes Junior category was introduced 3 years ago by the European Cultural Foundation, UNICEF and The Sandberg Institute. BBC to launch Wannabes. An interactive web-based soap opera about young people in Brighton, in 2006. (BBC News) Wannabes will follow the trials and tribulations of a group of youngsters attempting to start creative careers in music, television and film. Read More Kids Crossroads brings hope to young people Young people from Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia. (UNICF ) Gathered in the news room of Internews in Baku, Azerbaijan, a group of young journalists are discussing ideas for the next Kids' Crossroads programme to be broadcast across the countries of the South Caucasus; Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Technology Use By Youth. A recent (2005) online study of college students at Ball State University found the following
KIDS FIRST! Film and Video Festival. The Denver Film Society is proud to announce the KIDS FIRST! Film and Video Festival (November 19-20, 2005), a mini-festival ideal for young film buffs within the 28th Starz Denver International Film Festival (SDIFF28). Among events and screenings will be the first-ever live KIDS FIRST! Best Awards ceremony, a "red carpet" event that includes a screening of the film THE BLUE BUTTERFLY starring William Hurt, and a Cupcake Social. Programming at the festival is designed for kids 2-18 and includes never-before-seen TV from series including DORA THE EXPLORER and SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS, and sneak previews of feature films. Go to www.kidsfirst.com to find out more about KIDS FIRST! and their special film and video festival at SDIFF28. SDIFF28 tickets will go on sale to the general public on October 28th and will be available online at http://www.denverfilm.org or by phone at . Read More. Jump Cut: 10 - 20 November, A Film Festival for Young People. On Saturday the 19th of November one minute jr. videos will be shown between 2pm-6pm at the ICA Jump Cut Festival. Jumpcut is a new annual ICA film festival screening short films made by young people aged 11-19 from the local borough of Westminster; as well as London-wide and Global.There are three sections to the ICA 10 day programme; the first is to provide a platform for young people to show their own work at 'jumpcut', the second is to offer a unique programme of educational talks and practical workshops and the third is to show films that appeal to children, young people and families. The five feature films that are showing are part of the London Children's Film Festival presented by the Barbican and the Independent Cinema Office, in association with Film London. The focus of these concurrent festivals is to inspire a passion for film in children, young people and families. Children's festival on Cape agenda in November. The Children's Festival, presented by Sithengi and the Children's Broadcasting Foundation for Africa (CBFA), will be presenting a special Children's Festival in the Arena Theatre at Artscape on 12 and 13 November, a programme of the Cape Town World Cinema Festival. UN board game to raise children's awareness of peace. KABUL (IRIN) - Sitting under a tree in the outskirts of the capital Kabul, Sameh and his friends talked openly about very adult issues such as human rights, child kidnapping and landmines as they played a new UN-designed game entitled "The Road to Peace". "It is a nice game. It is informative and entertaining," Sameh said, pointing to the colourful game illustrated with text and numeric steps. "We have many physical games, but this is good for information and also it's mobile and can be played everywhere," the 13-year-old primary school pupil added. Read More. Centre frees youngsters from web of addiction. (China Daily) When Cui Nan realised his parents had tricked him, that instead of taking him to a new job, they were delivering him to a hospital for Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD), not for one second did he imagine their white lie could turn out to be true. But just 15 days' later, the 25-year-old from Hebei Province became a paid volunteer at the IAD centre at the Central Hospital of the Beijing Military Command, working as an assistant to the centre's psychological consultant. Read More: Mobile Minors(eMarketer) Teen mobile users represent a $10.7 billion market, and parents are footing most of the bill. How Making Films Is Getting Children to Enjoy Reading and Writing Again (The Evening Telegraph) Education chiefs in Peterborough (UK) are hoping to turn the page to a brighter future by launching a three-year campaign to get children excited about reading and writing and at the same time improve literacy skills in the city. Read More. Interfilm 21st International Short Film Festival - Berlin, Germany. November 1-6, 2005. For the first time this year: thanks to "Zapf Umzüge" we offer participants lots of cool additions to the former film section for kids and present the Children and Youth Short Film Festival. Together with attendes a jury made up of children will watch the three KuKi Children's Competition programs and choose the two winners. We're eager to know who that may be! Youth radio Workshop. At the beginning of September 2005 Youth presenters and producers from 12 sub-Saharan African countries, working with Search for Common Ground's Radio for Peacebuilding, Africa project, explored the skills necessary to make youth programmes which engage the audience and have a positive rather than negative impact, helping resolve rather than inflame conflict. The below principles include new ways of seeing their roles, new perspectives on conflict, and new objectives and techniques for presenting their programmes. The Radio for Peacebuilding, Africa project will publish a complete Guidebook for African Youth Radio for Peacebuilding in early 2006. Read More. Videotivoli. An international event designed for children and youth under 16 years old. We are longing for plenty of film work that is shorter than 10 minutes, freely formed in terms of subject matter and style. Works of children and youth cover the silver screens the second week of March, 6.-12.3 2006. Find further information and the registration form at www.videotivoli.fi Youth Radio Gives Teens a Voice-And a Chance. (Daily Online Californian)Berkeley teen Brandon McFarland spent most of his youth on the streets of Oakland, surrounded by crime and drugs. One Minute Jr.USA. Movies online. (UNESCO) At the One Minute Jr. website screen films by youth in the United States. In May, 40 youth filmmakers from 30 organizations across the USA hooked up at Listen Up!'s "Ahead of the Curve" weekend workshop. Listen Up! is a youth media network.
To see the rest, check the films in United States in the "By Country" category. Young blog their way to a publishing revolution. (Guardian) The extent of the personal publishing revolution has been revealed by a Guardian/ICM poll showing that a third of all young people online have launched their own blog or website. Empowering Latinas through media (News 8 Austin) About three years ago, a group called Latinitas (Latinitas Magazine.org) formed with a mission to empower Latina youth through media and technology. You can find all information in English and Spanish. There are two sections, one is for young girls geared toward pre-teens. There is information ranging from technology and school to entertainment, to Latina role models. There is also a section for teens. This entire magazine is success driven, so it always focuses articles on showing girls different opportunities and empowering them to succeed. There is also information about Latina culture, stories that are actually written by girls themselves, and profiles of young Latinas who are already succeeding in the community. Read More. Sea, Sun and 25 one minute films. (UNESCO) The sea, sun, beach and friends around...what else do you need for a good film? Members of the Young People’s Media Network in Georgia could not find a better place in August for their one-minute video workshop. On 3–10 August, 25 members of the network from different TV studios gathered at the Black Sea popular resort of Chakvi to film 25 one-minute videos. Read More. Film Students From Various Asian Countries Gather for Inaugural Class. At a film studio in Kyonggi Province, an indoor set shows an ordinary living room surrounded by a couple of cameras. However, there are no actors or film crew around. Instead, all you can see are the inquisitive eyes of students of various nationalities, eager to learn about the craft of filmmaking and the use of new technology. Yeff! Berlin 2005. European film meeting for young people from October 16-23 in Berlin. This is Europe's first youth film encounter facilitating the opportunity for meeting other young filmmakers, take part in workshops, show and discuss more than 30 European youth film productions on issues of cultural diversity. Red Studio - MoMA. By collaborating with high school students, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) put together Red Studio, a Web site designed to connect teens with modern art and today's working artists. Currently, Red Studio features an interview with Shahzia Sikander, an artist born in Pakistan in 1969, who was educated, and now lives here in the US. Conducted by six students, interview questions range from what it's like for a young woman with a Muslim family to pursue a career as an artist, if she's ever felt she has to censor her art, to what type of music she likes. Red Studio visitors can view the interview as a Flash presentation with sound, or read the complete transcript. There is also an earlier interview with Vito Acconci, who is asked if he is an artist or an architect, and why he always wears black. Another teen-orientated part of the site is polls, so that kids can find out what other kids think about the purpose of art, and what they like to do after school. Read More. Source:(The Scout Report) . Barbadian children learn how to produce One minute for my Rights videos. Over the last two weeks twenty Barbadian children ages 8 through 15 years joined a growing number of children throughout the world who are producing one minute for my rights videos. Under the guidance of Nicolas King - who was trained in the UNICEF-supported One minute for My Rights Training of Trainers workshop in Suriname in May- these children have decided to focus on HIV/AIDS and drugs as the themes for their videos which are expected to be completed early in the month of October. Read More. Young voices call out across Liberian airwaves. An unusual group of young Monrovian Liberian journalists is landing more and more major news scoops, such as an exclusive interview with the Liberian Head of State, the Minister of Defence, or UNICEF Liberia Representative Angela Kearney. New Program to Introduce Filmmaking Skills to High School Students in Nine U.S. Cities. MY CITY NOW is designed to encourage high school students to take an active and creative role in their communities, while encouraging interest in the documentary form and PBS programming. The program is also created to unite high school students and senior citizens in selected cities and engage them in conversations about the past, present and future of the cities in which they live. The primary component of the program will be the Future Filmmaker Series, which will consist of a workshop series and a contest. The project will be held in Chicago IL, Dallas TX, Denver CO, Houston TX, Las Vegas NV, Phoenix AZ, San Antonio TX, San Diego CA, and San Francisco CA.. Read More. Slum area children launch newspaper. Children from major poverty areas, Madangir and Khanpur, in Delhi have launched their own newspaper, hitherto a terrain of the educated elite. Udayachal , as the newspaper is called, has become a vehicle for highlighting the problems and concerns of the slum dwellers. Read More. Young shift TV viewing to new media. Young viewers are increasingly turning away from traditional television sets and watching programmes on other devices, according to new research. Global Action Project: Youth Making Media. Since 1991, Global Action Project (G.A.P.) has provided media arts and leadership training for thousands of young people living in underserved communities, from New York to Croatia to Guatemala to the Middle East and beyond. Our mission is to provide youth with the knowledge, tools, and relationships they need to create powerful, thought-provoking media on local and international issues that concern them, and to use their media as a catalyst for dialogue and social change. Read More. Young volunteers support Radio Salam. Batken, Kyrgyzstan, is not an easy place to reach, nor is it an easy place to live. Natural disasters and inclement weather do little to help.For the local people, Batken means rocky soil, apricots and Radio Salam - a UNICEF supported radio station that highlights the concerns of young people. Stay In School Video. Toledo, Ohio's Lourdes College Upward Bound students, made up of pupils from Waite and Woodward high school, got a taste of creating a video as part of a project sponsored by communications giant Time Warner. The focus of their project was "Stay in School" Read more. Gun Violence in Brookly Inspires Teen Award-Winning Documentary Film. Los Angeles' Laemmle's Grande 4-plex theatre will host the theatrical premiere of the award winning, teen produced film, Bullets in the Hood-A Bed-Stuy Story . Produced at New York City's Downtown Community Television Center, Bullets in the Hood-A Bed-Stuy STORY focuses on the tragic consequences of youth gun violence in Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant community. For over thirty years, Downtown Community Television Center has offered unique programs for inner city youth, producers with disabilities, community programs, affordable workshops, post-production facilities, and equipment rentals. For more information, please visit http://www.dctvny.org. is an example of DCTV's filmmaking philosophy - social awareness in a personal story-telling style. DCTV Co-Founder and celebrated documentarian Jon Alpert says, "This film is the most recent example of DCTV's three decades of public service. DCTV is proud to lead the next generation of independent filmmakers." Youth Media Events. The NAMAC Conference, (September 28 - October 2, Philadelphia) will hold unique opportunities for Youth Media Practitioners to participate in workshops and trainings with peers from all areas of the media arts world. The Youth Media section will provide opportunities to share work and new thinking. Forge new relationships and build future alliances for support, advocacy, and professional development. Events include: Practitioner Drop-In Sessions, an Animated Conversation Dinner, Youth Show 'n' Tell and a Youth Media Slam.One Minutes Jr. Newsletter July This edition contains stories from: Ireland, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Canada, Czech Republic, Latin America, and other countries To subscribe to the free monthly newsletter and young people producing video works, go to: http://www.theoneminutesjr.org Canadian Newsletter for Young Media Producers. CuedUp is an online bi-monthly newsletter about what’s happening in the film and video community for youth in British Columbia and beyond. It is a forum for exchanging information about events, festival deadlines, calls for submissions, programs, employment opportunities, great resources, et cetera. It’s also about creating opportunities and supporting a community of younger filmmakers and all those who appreciate what’s happening in youth-produced film and video today. Although this resource focuses on western Canada there is much of interest to others in this free resource. Danish site empowers children and young people. The Danish online house for children, Cyberhus.dk, is created for and by children and young people. The principal idea behind the project is the young users' sense of ownership and active involvement. Street-Level Youth Soar. On a corner in Chicago's West Town, a low-income Latino neighborhood, sits a storefront known around the city as "that video place run by kids." It is one of three neighborhood drop-in centers organized by Street-Level Youth Media. A not-for-profit agency started by artists and teens, Street-Level is where young people, from grade school to high school, gain access to the tools of our information-based society. A visitor to any of the drop-in centers will find video production and editing facilities, multimedia computers wired to the Internet, and professional artists helping young people learn how to tell their stories. Source:Edutopia. Read More. Student Film Wins At Sundance. High school filmmakers from the Educational Video Center (EVC) in New York City are celebrated the success of Why We Fight, which was awarded the American Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The winning film – which explores the rise of American militarism from the Cold War to the present-day occupation of Iraq – features a compelling segment produced by EVC's youth filmmaking crew, who tell the story of their friend William as he makes the decision to enlist in the U.S. military. Read More. Network For Young Filmmakers Established. An international Network For Youth is being established for children and teens working with film and media. All those interested are encouraged to join this network and join with others producing media. There are three basic age groups (younger than 12, from 13 to 18, and from 19 to 25). All of you who join will be divided by the countries you are from, age group and the type of media with which you work. Your interesting comments and letters will be published on www.net4youth.net webpages. Read More. TAKE 3! The 3nd edition of Kids For Kids Festival showed an enthusiastic participation from around the world, it made us realized once again the enormous potential of the project and its ability to encourage and motivate not only the young filmmakers, but also the adults who work with them, and to create worldwide links. This 3rd edition will take place in Naples, Italy, from June 30 to July 1. In all, 350 films from 59 countries were registered. The pre-selection committee selected 45 films from 27 countries, which will be presented at the official competition in Italy. Source: Kids For Kids.
Danish Awards for Youth Internet Production. Young Danish storytellers meet Her Highness Princess Alexandra, countess of Frederiksborg who awarded prizes to Danish winners of the "Safer Internet Magic and Friendship" storytelling competition. The ceremony was held at the Film House in Copenhagen. This national award ceremony was held in Copenhagen on 1 June 2005. Read Full Story. Youth OUT LOUD! Youth OUT LOUD! is an independent news service where youth from across the globe can have a powerful voice in the mainstream press. Through the Youth Empowerment Alliance (YEA), a worldwide network of youth-serving organizations, Youth OUT LOUD! obtains and distributes weekly youth-generated stories to international media outlets, with its network of youth story tellers in more than 150 countries. YMN invites youth to express viewpoints on current events, social issues, pop culture and other topics important to them. The collected responses are offered to mainstream media as stories for publication in magazines, newspapers, websites, etc.
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