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NEWS ARCHIVE 2007
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News Archive:
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Virtual video-making in Teen Second Life spreads the message on child rights To mark the 18th anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC), a group of teenage videographers has given an online screening of their short videos made in the virtual world of Teen Second Life. Read More. WFP Hunger Bytes! The World Food Programme (WFP) calls on students and others to use their creativity towards raising awareness about hunger through a unique, international competition called "Hunger Bytes" by making a short video about "byting" global hunger. Read More. 17yrold-gives UP countryside its very own Radio Reotipur. There is no electricity during the day to watch television, and the nearest cinema is over 20 kms away. But Reotipur in Ghazipur district has its very own "radio station", manned by 17-year-old Arun Kant Rai --- founder, chief, engineer, producer, programme executive and RJ of "Radio Reotipur". Read More. Our Stories. A multitude of voices joined together to launch 'Our Stories' -- an initiative that will collect, preserve and share stories from young people around the world. Read More. Finding their own voice. Young people are not just consumers of the media, but "pro-sumers"; that is, producers as well as consumers, who in the world of web 2.0 interact with media outlets and even create their own media. Read More. Angry young to air views on murder. A group of young people from London are to make a film expressing their Belgian One Minutes Opportunity. Preparations are fully under way One minutes Belgian Open and The One Minutes Foundation are jointly organizing this year's festival in Ghent, Belgium between 9 - 12 November 2007. Children VOICE New Delhi. An event to be conceived, designed and organized by children upto 12 years to voice the "World We Want" celebrating the International Broadcasting Day for Children (International participation and collaborations are welcome) will be held 9th-12th December 2007 in New Delhi, India. Read More. Today's teen moviemakers are going pro. Kids have been picking up cameras, recruiting a few buds and making videos for a while now. Lately, however, they’ve been growing more ambitious. They don’t just want to make a funny home movie. They aren’t satisfied with improvised dialogue and shaky, handheld camera work. They want to make a real movie.“I want to be a cinematographer,” says James Moritz, 18, from behind an exceptionally long forelock. His short made it into SXSW this year. “Nothing is better than someone saying your picture looked cool.” Read Full Article. UNICEF film-making workshop aims at children’s creativity. Film-making can be a great way for children to tell stories from their own perspectives and express their creativity. A five-day residential camp sponsored by the Dubai International Film Festival at Tej Prasarini, the multimedia production, distribution and media education centre of the Don Bosco Society aims to do just that. Read Full Article.
“Beyond Borders: Personal Stories from a Small Planet” receives George Foster Peabody Award. “Beyond Borders: Personal Stories from a Small Planet” will receive broadcasting’s highest honor, the George Foster Peabody Award. Listen Up! Youth Media Network produced the 1-hour documentary, which aired on the Independent Film Channel. The nine stories that make up “Beyond Borders” come from youth filmmakers in Sierra Leone, Ukraine, Colombia, Jordan, Guatemala, New York, Illinois, Virginia, and Utah. "Beyond Borders: Personal Stories from a Small Planet" was funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which has a longstanding commitment to applying knowledge to solve the problems of people. Read More (PDF) . Estreno de los videominutos 2007. Este martes se presentarán 89 nuevos videominutos producidos por 550 adolescentes de 10 provincias argentinas que participaron de la tercera edición del proyecto Un Minuto por mis Derechos. los/as jóvenes realizadores/as viajarán a Buenos Aires para participar del estreno de sus cortos, en un evento que será conducido por Gastón Pauls y los hermanos Weinbaum, conductores del programa MDQ. Read More. Program Trains Young Documentary Film Makers. Attention aspiring young film makers. If Michael Moore and Ken Burns are your heroes, Squeaky Wheel invites you to apply for the third year of the "Buffalo Youth Media Institute." The nine month-long program is designed for teenagers who perhaps have dreamed of making a documentary, but aren't sure how to go about it. About 40 selected Western New York teens are given the tools and the guidance needed to tell stories of the history and culture of the city through documentary film making. Read More Kids for Kids Festival. The selection for the 2007 Kids for Kids Festival has been done. This year, more than 500 films from 48 countries were submitted for the KidsFor Kids Festival, in addition to all the regional Kids for Kids. This is all thanks to you, the young filmmakers and media educator throughout the world. Read More OneMinutesJr workshop in Ukraine on disabilities. The Forum and the workshop took place in the Ukrainian National Paralympics Base in Yevpatoriya on the Black Sea coast of the Crimean. Looking at their own special needs or those of their peers, the young Auburn International Film Festival for Children and Young Adults. In 2007 the festival received over 350 works and presented 88 short- and feature-length films from 41 countries simultaneously at Reading Cinemas Auburn and Vernon Theatre Sydney Olympic Park. Media literacy and digital film-making workshops also form an integral part of the event. Read More. Photoshare announces winner. The winner of the 2nd Annual 2007 Photoshare Development Photography Award: Ashok Bhurtyal. This is awarded exclusively to a photographer from a developing country/emerging economy as a part of Photoshare's effort to promote photography as a vital tool for communicating international health and development issues. Read More. Children's virtual world planned by the BBC. The BBC has announced plans by CBBC, the channel for 7-12 year olds, to create CBBC World - a website which would allow digitally literate children to access BBC characters and resources. Users would be able to build an online presence, known as an avatar, then create and share content. Read More. A Celebration of Youth and the Media Arts. The 31st Annual Young People’s Film & Video Festival, a free event produced through the Northwest Film Center’s Young Filmmakers Program, will be held on Sunday, July 15th, at 2pm at the Whitsell Auditorium (1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR). The Festival celebrates artistic excellence, technical achievement and originality in live action, documentary and animated films and videos made by kids, schools and youth organizations in Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho and Utah. The only event of its kind in the Northwest, the Festival also acknowledges outstanding contributions to media education through presentation of the 2007 Service to Young Filmmakers Award to the Mount Hood Cable Regulatory Committee. The program will run approximately 100 minutes. UNICEF and Perspectiva organise a photography workshop for children with disabilities. From May 21 to May 25, UNICEF and Perspectiva organised a photography workshop for children with disabilities. Twenty children participated in the project. Half of them had disabilities that ranged from a boy confined to a wheelchair, a young girl who was born without arms, a young girl with impaired hearing, and a girl with Down's syndrome. Each disabled child was paired with a child without disabilities. Read More. UNICEF UK AWARDS. Nominations have been announced for the prestigious UNICEF UK AWARDS, the only human rights film awards specifically for short films for young people. 17 short films on the theme of young people's rights have been nominated for two Jury Awards and for one Audience Award for best overall film in both categories. The films will be shown and judged during this year's Showcomotion Young People's Film Festival in Sheffield. Read More. Child-friendly journalism gives young people a voice in Iraq. Mohammad's TV show, 'Sabah El Kheir Mosul' (Good Morning Mosul), is different than most Iraqi news programmes. To balance the grim daily reports of bombings and violence, Mohammad, 28, is trying a new focus - the lives of children. Read More. What Kids Can Do. In June 2006, What Kids Can Do joined other U.S.-based youth media organizations in a multi-year international initiative called Adobe Youth Voices, sponsored by Adobe Systems Incorporated. In the first year, we teamed with youth and educators in New York City, San Francisco and San Jose, Seattle, London, Delhi, and Bangalore to produce a rich array of multimedia and book projects. View Results Argentine youths win 'Make a Difference!' one-minute video contest. UNICEF congratulated youth filmmakers sponsored by Argentina's Fundación Kine Cultural y Educativa for their winning one-minute video, 'Bebe - más allá de la niñez', in the second annual Media Magic Make a Difference! one-minute video contest. Save the Children Launches Major Photo Exhibition. The exhibition, A Child's Eye, includes photographs taken by 60 children living in institutional children's homes in three districts of Aceh province - Banda Aceh, Pidie and Lhokseumawe. The project was run by Save the Children in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Affairs to allow children to share their experience of the Indonesian care system in their own way. Images taken by Indonesian children living in homes who turned the camera on their own lives. Read More Children's virtual world planned by the BBC. The BBC has announced plans by CBBC, the channel for 7-12 year olds, to create CBBC World - a website which would allow digitally literate children to access BBC characters and resources. Users would be able to build an online presence, known as an avatar, then create and share content. Read More Youth Link Published. Nigeria’s foremost youth media organization, Youth Media & Communication Initiative (YMCI) has published the maiden edition of it quarterly journal, Youth Link! The maiden issue of Youth Link! tackles such issues as lack of reference to children issues in the general election in Nigeria planned for late April 2007, basic media literacy concepts, the 5th World Summit on Media for Children in South Africa; sexual harassment; discrimination and violence against girls; children and news; the essence of youth media and youth and drugs. Learn More. Online Competition. Listen Up!¹s VIP20007 online competition is in full swing. More than 60 films have been Namibia: Children's Film Shot on Location. During the first two weeks of April, a group of Namibian, German and Polish students based themselves at Baumgartsbruhn, a primary school just outside Windhoek, to work on a very unique project producing a short feature film for children. The film project is part of a cross-culture youth project, letting young people from different countries learn from each other - said Janusz Hamerski, screenplay-writer and director, a Polish national, in an ART/Life interview.Read Article. Media group aims to teach youth to empower themselves.Youth Media Guyana (YMG) was launched on Tuesday with the aim of empowering the country's youth by equipping them with the skills necessary to express themselves. YMG is the brainchild of six youths, two of whom are media workers at the National Communications Network (NCN) and who attended the Kids & Docs Festival in Paramaribo, Suriname last December. Read Article. Food Force' Video Game Sweeps Northern Europe. As Europe's largest games industry event gets underway in Sweden, "Food Force," the world's first humanitarian video game for children, is celebrating the launch of three new language versions, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced. Launched in 2005, as the world's first humanitarian video game, Food Force explores the problem of global hunger and the logistics of humanitarian aid work, and is designed for children aged 8 to 13. The game is available as a free internet download. It has been downloaded about 5 million times. Read Article. New Turkish TV show gives teenage videographers a platform. A five-day OneMinutesJr. video workshop hosted last week by Turkish National Television (TRT) will enable youths aged 12 to 20 to produce personal video stories about their dreams, passions and expectations - but also about their fears and sometimes very real problems at home or at school. Children's media skew gender. In 2005-06, the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication conducted the most comprehensive analysis of children's movies and TV programming ever done. The research was commissioned by See Jane, a program I established at the non-profit Dads & Daughters to reduce gender imbalance and stereotyping in children's media. . Cast your vote for your favorite one-minute video! Here are the 10 finalists for the Media Magic "Make a Difference" Contest. Over 100 young people responded to UNICEF's call to create a one-minute video telling the world what young people think about the world they live in and how they're making a difference. Now it's your chance to choose your favorite one-minute video that tells the world what you think. You have until 14 May so Vote NOW! With Cameras and Curious Minds, Youth Document Global Change. In "the new China," might boys and girls break tradition and hold hands? Will the advent of electricity in a rural African village increase kids' education, or distract their attention? Does the parent who repairs shoes on a sidewalk in New Delhi feel threatened by sneakers made in Indonesia? High school students in developing countries have begun asking questions like these, leading to a riveting series of mixed-media presentations and books that open teenagers' daily lives in China, Africa, and India to public view, around the world. Read More. Interview Dorin Babeu at the Tokyo Video Festival. Thirteen year old Dorin Babeu, who made the one minute video baby-trees, was Lola Kenya Screen Wins Grand Prize at Fifth World Summit on Media and Children.Films by Children for Children, a production of Lola Kenya Screen, eastern Africa's first and only international audiovisual event for children and youth, beat 50 other films from 12 African nations to the trophy in a classic 'winner takes it all' manner; no other prize was awarded. All the films on the Films by Children for Children compilation were conceived, written, story-board-written, directed and animated by children under the guidance of Finnish filmmaker Antonia Ringbom. Read More. Web 2.0 wonders: Zooomr's Kris Tate. (BBC) What do you do if you are a 17-year-old programming genius living in Seattle, in the US? Perhaps you move away from your family, 800 miles south to San Francisco and single-handedly build a photo-sharing website that will eventually have 100,000 users around the world? Read More. Youth Voices Fill the New York air. Coverage of youth in the media rarely represents what young people are truly facing, thinking and saying. But a group of teenagers in New York City are actively changing that. They're part of Radio Rookies, a youth journalism programme at New York public radio station WNYC that provides teenagers with the tools, training and mentors to create stories about themselves, their communities and global issues. Read Article and Listen. Fourth Videotivoli Festival. The red parrot of Videotivoli, Pirkko, will spread its wings over Tampere, Finland, for the fourth time 6.-11-3. 2007. In its bag, the bird is carrying over 500 films made by under 16-year-old children from all over the world. Over a fifth of the films can be seen during the Tampere Film Festival at Tullikamari (the Old Customs House). All the films are made by young people, for young people. Videotivoli is a channel through which children and youngsters from all around the world can make their voices heard, and which allows us to take a peek in their lives. Read More. Young people's radio show breaks down taboos. Subjects like HIV/AIDS and child trafficking, usually considered taboo in Mozambican society, are being openly discussed by the teenage presenters of radio and television programmes for young people. Read More. Show Off Your Stuff. If you like to write and relate, discuss and document, here is the place to present your work. If you take issue with gridlocked government, stale traditional media, and/or community crises, use the YouthNoise platform to magnify and multiply your perspective. Learn More. The MediaSnackers. The monthly MediaSnackersvodcast is a fifteen minute shot (more or less) of yummy-youth-media-goodness. Featuring content made, produced or focussed on young people and media from around the globe Learn More. Free Curriculum for Schools. The Independent Film Channel announces a free curriculum program designed for high school English classes. The program -- which meets the standards of the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association, among others -- integrates film study and video production into the study of English literature, writing, and media. For more information visit IFCTV web site. The future belongs to the kids. Today's school children have been labelled "the connected generation". They have grown up in an online, digital environment: a world in which they will always be more comfortable than their parents. According to educational guru Mark Prensky, "children are the natives in the digital landscape and we, the adults, are immigrants." A sentiment that is no doubt shared by any parent reliant on their child to download an album from iTunes or pause a live programme on Sky Plus. Read More. The International film festival of films made by children for children. Kids For Kids Festival is an independent festival of films by and for children managed by CIFEJ, an international meeting place for young filmmakers, media experts and the public. Cinekid Festival which is an annual Film, Television and New Media Festival for Children, celebrated its 20th edition this year. Every year during the autumn break more than 30,000 children are given the opportunity to attend one or more of the 200 media productions that Cinekid presents including feature films, children's documentaries, short films, animations, TV series and single plays, cross-media productions, interactive installations and workshops. Read More. Learn about Cinekid. UNICEF 'mini-reporters' help launch anti-violence campaign in El Salvador. No one is better qualified to report on children's issues than children themselves. This was the idea behind the UNICEF-supported 'mini-reporters' news show in El Salvador, a pilot created to showcase children's points of view on issues they face. Youth journalists Diego Gabriel Figueroa, 12, and Alejandro Falla, 8, were chosen for this special task. Read More And View Video. In the virtual world of Second Life, teens tackle real children's issues. Voices of Youth, UNICEF's own online forum, recently helped reach hundreds of children from around the world with a groundbreaking project in Teen Second Life, the under-18 corner of the increasingly popular online alternative reality, Second Life. The MediaSnackers monthly vodcast.The MediaSnackers monthly vodcast is a fifteen minute shot (more or less) of yummy-youth-media-goodness - watch the first episode online High school students put advertising skills to work.Instead of paying an outside party to create ads,Socorro High School (New Mexico) Superintendent Cheryl Wilson has asked business students to design newspaper advertisements and enlisted others to voice radio ads, which brings them experience and credit for those efforts. Read More. Photo project in Thailand helps tsunami-affected children tell their stories. Some of the most marginalized children in Thailand's tsunami-afflicted Phang Nga Province are getting a chance to express themselves through 'InSIGHT Out!' - a UNICEF-supported photo project. Kabataan News Network. KNN (Youth News Network) is a 30-minute weekly magazine TV show produced by young Filipinos. It has 12 bureaus located in 12 provinces in the Philippines. The bureaus' reporters have been trained on TV production and were provided with the necessary equipment to produce their stories. UNICEF Philippines funds the project. There are about 100 young reporters who shoot, interview, write and report the stories aired on KNN. It is the only program in the Philippines that allows young people to take charge and speak out and a great example of how broadcasters and youth can collaborate. Read More. Photo Contest: Inspirational women. A young Kenyan has won a global UNICEF photo and essay competition, the children’s agency announced. Contestants in the Voices of Youth and 2007 UNICEF's State of the World's Children Report Photography Contest: Inspirational Women submitted photographs and essays highlighting women as role models.Over 70 entries were received from every part of the world featuring mothers, sisters, teachers, friends who have inspired young people. Read More. Voices of Youth and the International Children's Day of Broadcasting launches Media Magic Digest. UNICEF's Voices of Youth and the International Children's Day of Broadcasting launched today a new online multimedia newsletter which showcases media projects by, with and for children called Media Magic Digest .Media Magic Digest is a quarterly e-newsletter for people interested in how young people create media around the world and aims to promote dialogue between broadcasters and young media enthusiasts. The inaugural issue shares stories of original youth-driven programmers produced in different media, including photography, video, radio and print. Young favour Internet over TV. The rise of high-speed Internet and the explosion in online video content is fuelling a widespread decline in the number of people watching television according to a worldwide study by Ofcom. On average around one-third of consumers with broadband access watch less television since going online the findings, which sampled a thousand people in each country, concluded. Read More. Youth producers from Zambia and Mexico win UNICEF/OneWorld radio prize. Youth radio producers from Zambia and Mexico have won the 2006 UNICEF/OneWorld Radio Prize, presented by UNICEF and OneWorld Radio. The award is given to a radio programme produced by youth that reflects the 2006 theme "UNITE FOR CHILDREN. UNITE AGAINST AIDS." Awards are presented for the best feature (up to six minutes) and the best Public Service Announcement (PSA) and celebrate youth participation in media. Read More. Amateur filmmakers called to help with major national research. Amateur filmmakers are being called on to participate in a major national investigation of how they use camcorders in their everyday lives. The project, run by the Institute of Education's Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, aims to find out what gets amateur filmmakers going and why they come up with the stuff they do. Read More.
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