NEWS / EVENTS: Countdown For 8th Nordic Talents

Countdown For 8th Nordic Talents

29.08.2008

In only seven days Copenhagen will host the 8th Nordic Talents (September 4-6) where some 200 film and TV professionals from the region will view 20 films from Nordic graduates, listen to 12 film pitches and catch up with what upcoming talents are up to. We take an inside look at the event.
Nordic Talents 2008

Organised by Nordisk Film & TV Fond in conjunction with the Danish Film School, the Nordic Talents has become a 'must attend' for Nordic professionals - film institute consultants, broadcasters, producers, film schools, former and future graduates - who can meet in a friendly atmosphere, keep track of who is doing what and discover new talents.

Svend Abrahamsen, founder of NT who now teaches film at the Danish Film School, says that the event has fulfilled his original wish. "I wanted to do something for Nordic graduate students ready to enter the Nordic film industry and thought that we should create a platform where people could get to know each other and talk about how they felt about film. This has totally succeeded," notes Abrahamsen. "Unlike at film festivals where professionals come to watch movies, here, those who come are interested in each other and interested in the people."

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NEWS / EVENTS:Cinekid for Professionals Update

Cinekid for Professionals Update

From October 23 until October 26, Cinekid for Professionals is the place to be for anybody involved with Children and the Media. Readings, seminars, a change to meet fellow professionals, screenings of the best and latest international productions and an opportunity to be kept up to date with very latest developments and trends.
With only eight weeks to go, Cinekid for Professionals is proud to present the first outline of the programme.

Meetings & Seminars
Seminar scriptwriting for children - Creating Modern Heroes (October 23)
Each time has it's own young heroes. In stories told for children and youth the choice of heroes and heroines reflects the prevalent ideas and ideals on childhood of the time. A group of international scriptwriters will give their personal view on Modern Heroes, illustrated with video fragments, followed by a panel discussion on how to create strong characters.

Seminar - When will virtual worlds grow up? (October 24)
Virtual worlds have become increasingly popular among young people in recent years. But are these worlds really living up to their potential? In this seminar designers and researchers will look into ways how children can get more out of virtual worlds.

Expert Meeting - Developing New Strategies for European Children Films (October 25)
The digital revolution has changed the ways films are produced, distributed and consumed. How do these new trends affect the future of the European children's films? How can the European film industry and other stakeholders create optimal opportunities in developing new talent, production, distribution and audience development?

ScreeningClub (October 23, 24, 25 and 26)
In the ScreeningClub, distributors, sales agents, television buyers and other international purchasers will be able to view and purchase more than 200 recent, high quality feature films, short films, documentaries, animation and television series for children.

Junior Television Market (October 24) and Junior Film Market (October 25)
The Junior Television Market and the Junior Film Market offer international producers and financers the chance to meet one another, get to know each other's projects, and initiate and encourage co-operation. During the course of the markets, a number of one-to-one meetings will be arranged so that producers and financers can discuss production content and make co-production deals.

Come to the festival and fill out the accreditation form

EVENTS: Media & Advocacy Camp for African Youths Kicks off

Media & Advocacy Camp for African Youths Kicks off

A five-day media and advocacy camp for African youths kicked off Friday (August 22) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Facilitated by Speak Africa, a multi-partner Pan African child and youth focused communication platform and strategy, currently with a secretariat based in UNICEF, Ethiopia, the camp will afford young people from across the continent the opportunity to share experiences, learn from each other, and contribute to the agenda of creating an Africa Fit for Children and Youth.

About twenty youth from seven countries are attending the camp which is also focused on giving young people the opportunity to get familiar with how to engage with decision-making processes on the continent, current development issues affecting African youth, and continental advocacy campaigns such as the Speak Africa "No Violence against Children and Youth" campaign.

Participants who are youths with media skills and interest in advocacy will explore development of advocacy and communication strategies, media advocacy for human rights, as well as basic journalism skills. Resources persons are from WITNESS (an international human rights organisation), Youth Media & Communication Initiative (an international organisation with focus on children and media), the African University College of Communication (based in Ghana), BBC World Service Trust, the African Child Policy Forum, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and UNICEF, Ethiopia.

In her opening remarks, Dr. Kerida McDonald, Chief Communication Cluster, UNICEF Ethiopia, noted that Speak Africa was not a UNICEF project but rather an agenda for African youth and the whole of Africa. She urged everyone to come on board. "Speak Africa is an evolving concept; it keeps growing and changing with the input of participants", Dr. McDonald added.

Reiterating the importance of 2008 as the Year of the African Youth and the need to put issues affecting African youth on the front burner of continental discourse, Dr. McDonald noted that youths in Africa won't have this kind of glorious opportunity to make their voices heard for another decade. She lamented the fact that almost a decade after the adoption of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) there were ten countries that had not ratified the charter and only four countries had ratified the African Youth Charter since its adoption in 2006.

Dr McDonald urged participants to be advocates for the ratification of both charters in their various countries before November 1, 2008, (Africa Youth Day) by petitioning their governments to show demonstration of their commitment to the 2008 Year of the African Youth and commemoration of the 60^th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights.

The opening day saw three presentations. The first was a video on "No Violence Campaign" by the African Child Policy Forum. This was followed by a presentation on youth and advocacy by Chido Onumah, Coordinator of the Youth Media & Communication Initiative. The last presentation on using video as tool for advocacy was by Bukeni Waruzi, Program Coordinator, Africa and Middle East for WITNESS.

The Advocacy Camp is one of the activities on the Plan of Action for the African Union designated Year of the African Youth (YAY) 2008. The plan was developed at a consultative meeting held in January this year in collaboration with the African Union, UNICEF, UNECA and other UN partners, the African Child Policy Forum, Plan International, Save the Children and youth from across the continent.

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EVENTS: 3rd International Youth Media Summit opens in Belgrade

BELGRADE, 20TH TO 27TH AUGUST 2008

Under the auspice of the President of the Republic of Serbia HE Boris Tadic, in organization of the Media Education Centre, in Belgrade will be held 3rd International Youth Media Summit. Nearly 70 people from more than 20 countries attend the Summit in Belgrade and represent diversity in identifying and reporting seven core issues Environment | Health | Poverty | Racism | Violence | Women Empowerment | Youth Empowerment. The outcome will be 7 X 1 minute Public Service Announcements filmed and edited by young filmmakers as well as researched, prepared and presented by the young diplomats.

Opening Ceremony with screening of the films from Los Angeles and Sydney Summits will be in the Terazije Theatre on Wednesday, 20th of August at 20:30 hours.

7 voices, multimedial exhibition of the video works made by young participants of the precedent Summits with International Group Photo Exhibition, seven core issues of the Summit on the photos. O3one Gallery, opening at Thursday, 21st of August at 7 pm.

More information: www.iyms.eu

Miomir Rajcevic, Summit’s Coordinator

+381-63-248490

visit site for more information

NEWS / PROJECTS: Youth media campaign targets city violence

Youth media campaign targets city violence

Effort to focus on their peers

City youths armed with digital cameras and audio recorders will capture images and words and use them to try to persuade their peers to shun violence, under a new city program announced yesterday.

The youths will work on developing this new media campaign this fall and winter with city workers and members of SEIU Local 1199 United Healthcare Workers East, many of whom work at Boston Medical Center, treating victims of violence.

"Young people know how to speak to young people," Veronica Turner, vice president of Local 1199, said at a media conference yesterday at a public health fair at Franklin Park in Dorchester.

The young people will work out of community centers and the union's Dorchester headquarters, creating artwork, music, T-shirts, rap, and poetry to spread messages of peace and the dangers of resorting to knives, guns and other weapons to resolve conflicts.


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EVENTS: Central Asia in a "barcamp" format

Central Asia in a "barcamp" format

11.08.2008, By Yelena Jetpyspayeva, exclusively for Gazeta.kz

Central Asia in a 11 months to go, and such popular in the US format of un-conference as "barcamp," seized almost the whole territory of the former USSR, finally is getting to the Central Asia.

At the beginning of August Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) welcomed the first BarCamp Central Asia participants, and it's worthy of mentioning - the barcamp succeeded!

Almost 300 bloggers, web-delevopers, programmers and journalists from the Central Asia, CIS, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia gathered together on August 1-3 in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, to discuss the current and new tendencies in the sphere of New Media on the first international un-conference - the BarCamp Central Asia 2008.

The official opening at the American University in Central Asia was joined by the representatives of the US Embassy to Kyrgyzstan, Opera Software and the Open Society Institute.

"I support the bloggers conference where everyone is proud to belong to the community," - says Marc Cameron, the US Ambassador adviser on education, culture and mass media. He thinks the every blogger's voice is here to improve our world gives everyone else a chance to understand we could do this. "As one says, blog is unedited voice of a human being. Blog gives a chance to those who has no chance to say something in a real life to be heard, and this improves the future", - Marc Cameron summed up.

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OPPORTUNITIES: Competition open for young journalists and cartoonists

Competition open for young journalists and cartoonists

18/08/2008

Young journalists and cartoonists outside Europe are invited to submit articles and cartoons that express thoughts on Europe to the “World views on Europe” competition. Deadline: September 5.

The competition, being coordinated by SUD, a group of French NGO’s, along with RFI and TV5 World and Cartooning for Peace, is aimed specifically at youth outside of Europe. Works should also encourage reflection and debate.

Winners will receive an invitation to an international conference held by SUD in Paris, France on October 30.

For more information, visit: http://www.arabpressnetwork.org/articlesv2.php?id=2528

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NEWS / AWARDS: Arab Media Award for Excellence in Child Rights and Young People’s Development

*Arab Media Award for Excellence in Child Rights and Young People's
Development*

The media's dedicated efforts to highlight the problems related to
children's rights and young people's participation in development will
be honored by the United Nations Children's Funds (UNICEF) with a Media
Excellence Award for contributions in 2008.

In a press release issued by the UNICEF office in Yemen on August 12,
UNICEF motivates all journalists, children and teenagers in the Arab
World to participate in the Arab Media Humanitarian Forum. The award was
announced by the UNICEF Regional Office for Middle East and North Africa
in conjunction with the Dubai Press Club and the United Arab Emirates'
Al-Bayan Newspaper, in March 2008.

The media prize will be awarded to the Arab media for its excellence in
reporting on the situation and issues related to the condition of
children in the Middle East and North Africa. Works submitted tackle
national or regional issues and for 2008, the Forum agreed on the topic
to be focused on adolescents (ages 10 to 19).

full article <http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10014797.html>

PROJECTS: UNFPA supports youth media activities in Uzbekistan

UNFPA supports youth media activities in Uzbekistan

Source:Uzbekistan

On 16 – 21 August 2008, UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund in
Uzbekistan, supports conducting the Youth Media Trainings, Youth
Festival and 3d Youth Media Forum in Bukhara, Samarkand and Tashkent,
organized by National Association of Electronic Mass Media (NAESMI),
NAESMI Public Fund and "Kelajak Ovozi" Youth Initiatives Centre under
Fund Forum Uz.
These evens are tailored to train young journalists of Uzbekistan on
addressing important youth-related issues through various media outlets,
introduce activities of newly created TV studios in Bukhara and
Samarkand, provide update on the activities carried out by the
above-mentioned organizations during the first part of 2008 and award
the journalists who have created and aired the best information products
on social subjects during this period of time.

"UNFPA's role in these activities is to ensure that young journalists
participating at these educational events realize significance of
covering such issues as reproductive health, healthy lifestyle, gender
equality, HIV/AIDS prevention and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),
and receive all necessary information to develop good quality media
products to further educate their peers on these important subjects
through mass media that plays strategic role in educating young
generation", - commented Ms. Feruza Fazilova, UNFPA National Officer on
Reproductive Health.

UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is an international
development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child
to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA supports
countries in using population data for policies and programs to reduce
poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is
safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman
is treated with dignity and respect.

http://news.uzreport.com/uzb.cgi?lan=e&id=49862

AWARDS: Youth media projects awarded 55,000 GBP (UK)

*Youth media projects awarded £55,000*

Aug 12 2008

More than £55,000 has been awarded to two West Midlands projects that
aim to help disadvantaged young people have a positive voice in the media.

The grants are part of £485,000 of funding from Mediabox, a Department
for Children, Schools and Families fund, that aims to give 13-19 year
olds the opportunity to develop and produce creative media projects.

Mediabox has awarded grants to 18 youth organisations and media
companies across the country for creative-led projects including film,
TV, computer games, online, print and large scale digital imagery and
projection.

To date it has funded 242 projects, giving out almost £5 million in
funding, benefiting more than 6,000 young people in England.

full article
<http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2008/08/12/youth-media-projects-awarded-55-000-65233-21520585/>

Workshop – Participatory Communication & Action

Season's Greetings!

 

We are pleased to announce our 4^th annual workshop on Participatory Communication & Action: Approaches, Tools, Processes. The six-day residential programme will be held at Talegaon (near Lonavla, Maharashtra) from September 25 to 30, 2008.

 

Our annual workshops on PCA are an opportunity to reach out to civil society organizations across the country who work with groups and communities on a wide range of issues.

 

The six-day process provides the space and scope for sharing of experiences and reflecting on the learnings; deliberating on communication-related concerns; learning and practicing tools and methods for better facilitation. The workshop will seek to sensitize and build capacities of the participants to facilitate enabling and empowering processes with groups and communities who are otherwise not even heard.

 

Some of the participating organizations in the earlier three workshops included AHRD, MAVIM, ML Dawale Memorial Trust, Nehru Yuva Kendra, Point of View, SATH Network, WOTR, YUVA, MASUM, YARD, YASHADA, Ashoka Innovators,  Saathi, Disha Kendra, Manav Hakk Abhiyaan, Rural Development Centre, (Maharashtra), Sakhi (Kerala), Samskar-Plan (Andhra Pradesh), Samraksha (Karnataka), Government functionaries from the Education department (Maharashtra), ICDS department (Gujarat), Health department (Maharashtra, Gujarat and Orissa) also participated in the workshops.

 

We look forward to participation in the 4^th PCA workshop from your organization/partners, thereby enriching the learning process.

 

Details of the programme are as follows:

 

Workshop title

Participatory Communication & Action – Approaches, Tools, Processes

 

Dates

September 25 to 30, 2008

 

Venue

Environment Education Centre, Talegaon, District Pune, Maharashtra

 

Objectives

By the end of the workshop, the participants will have

·         Compared different approaches to development, participation and communication

·         Analyzed the paradigm shift towards participatory communication and action

·         Practiced the use of different participatory communication tools and methods

·         Designed an intervention strategy for participatory communication and action

·         Selected, adapted or evolved a set of tools and methods to be explored while working with groups

 

Methodology

The effort will be towards creating a participant-centred environment for experiential learning. The facilitation will explore a wide range of participatory tools and methods to encourage learning from each other. While Hindi will be the main language of the workshop, participants will be encouraged to interact/work in their regional languages.

 

Participants

Middle-level functionaries from NGOs, government departments and other civil society organizations working with groups and communities.

 

Participation fee

Rs.6,000/- per participant

 

The participation fee includes lodging, boarding and resources for the workshop. The lodging and boarding facilities at the venue will be available from September 24 (evening) to September 30 (evening). Participants are requested to make their travel arrangements accordingly.

 

Registration

Please confirm your participation before September 10, 2008, together with a demand draft favouring "media matters" payable at Ambernath or Mumbai.

 

Regards and best wishes

 

 

Seema Kurup

Mobile: 9881261094

 

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Tel. 91-251-2606929

 

media matters, a registered non-profit trust, works in the area of development communication, with a rights-based approach, exploring and experimenting with participatory media and communication with a focus on capacity building; design and development of resources; theatre for development; video documentaries; research and process documentation.

PUBLICATIONS: Media by and for Youth and Children

Media by and for Youth and Children

Author

Deborah Walter (ed.)

Gender and Media Diversity Centre

Publication Date

2008

Summary

This section of the fourth edition of the Gender and Media Diversity Journal, published by the Gender and Media Diversity Centre, explores youth, children, and the media, including the participation of youth and children in creating programmes, learning media literacy, and bringing children's issues into the public eye for dialogue.

Celebrating Youth Media and Proposing a Way Forward by Mimi Brazeau

According to this article, Plan West Africa engages with children and communities to promote and protect children’s rights by creating radio programmes by and for young people. Since 1995, it has produced radio shows and extended the production and broadcast of youth radio programmes in 11 West African countries. In 1998, Burkina Faso was the first country to launch Plan's child rights radio campaign. Through the project, children acquire communication skills, technical/vocational skills, and problem solving skills. The author states that they gain self confidence through theatre workshops and participate in dialogues with their parents. As stated here, evaluations show increased empowerment and hope for change in the participants. New technologies are increasing their desire to be part of the social dialogue.

Child and Youth Participation in Health Media by Daniel Walter
From the abstract: "Involving children in media to raise awareness about health-related issues is not only essential to creating good programmes, but also to empowering young people to be active members of the community. Examples of programming by and for young people show that children and youth bring unique perspectives to media programmes, and that once empowered, can successfully create programming that can impact positively on themselves, families, and communities." The article points to participatory radio as a forum in which young people can create programming relevant to their own issues. It poses the question: "What is participatory?", and responds with: "The most visible and successful youth participation programs are usually those that incorporate the ideals of 'genuine and effective' participation, i.e., an environment in which young people are involved in every step of the process from planning to evaluation. Challenges to 'genuine and effective' participation include: getting adults to let go; creating an environment at home or school where participation is serious and encouraged; overcoming cultural norms that children should be seen and not heard; and generating enough funds to sustain projects." The examples of theory into practice include several projects of Community Media for Development (CMFD) Productions: a series of programmes produced by youth teams at the World Summit on Media for Children; Portuguese language radio public service announcements on human trafficking produced in a participatory process with youth; and a participatory seminar to create a series of magazine style radio broadcasts at the National Children's Radio Seminar 2004.

Media Literacy for Learners by Sikhonzile Ndlovu
In June 2007 Gender Links (GL) launched its first Gender and Media Literacy course for young people, with the goal of equipping young people with skills to look critically at the media, as well as use it to their advantage. According to the author, young people observed gender bias in the media, became internet literate, and gradually shifted from being consumers of media to creators of media.

In Practice: Together We’ll be Ok -Children in Distress
Founded in July 1996 and based in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, the Children in Distress Network (CINDI) brings together over 100 member organisations who collaborate in the interests of children affected or orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Its goal is to provide them with a continuum of HIV/AIDS care and support. Members work together in clusters for close collaboration among those with expertise in a particular area. The clusters are: a) Community Development Cluster (CD); b) Home-Based Care Cluster (HBC); c) Psychosocial Support/Schools and Youth Development Cluster (PSS); and d) Children-in-Care Cluster (CIC). As an example of collaboration, various members of one cluster pooled their knowledge and compiled a booklet (in English and isiZulu) and created a poster in response to concerns about sexual abuse of children.

Click here to download this document in PDF format.

Contact

Lydia Byarugaba

Systems Administrator

Gender and Media Diversity Centre (GMDC)

Gender Links
9 Derrick Avenue
Cyrildene

Johannesburg

2198

South Africa

Tel: +27 (0)11 622 2877

Fax: +27 (0) 11 622 4732

GMDC website

knowledge@genderlinks.org.za


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PROJECTS: New machinima produced by teens in Global Kids (USA)

Throughout the 2007-2008 Global Kids Virtual Video Project after-
school program, 20+ high school students used machinima to create
short films and public service announcements that relate to important
global issues.

"Race To Equality" is a short video that displays the students'
impressive understanding of both digital media and important
international issues. Through Race To Equality, the 15 young creators
illustrate a poignant story about the struggle of three individuals in
Tibet, Brazil and the U.S. to overcome institutional racism in their
respective countries. While the stories are fictional, they are based
on research with the U.N. about unequal access to education and
financial aid in China, Brazil and the U.S. In the film, the
characters document their experiences at the U.N. Headquarters,
underlying the film's central message about the necessity to take
social action to overcome such obstacles.

The new film, Race to Equality, which premiered on Thursday, June 26th
at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab in Manhattan, welcomed over 60
attendees, including teachers, friends and families of the young
filmmakers, with opening remarks by Global Kids' Executive Director
Carole Artigiani.

Race To Equality is the culmination of the year-long Virtual Video
Project, an after-school program conducted by Global Kids, Inc. The
students gathered regularly during the past year to learn about film
production, global access to education, and virtual worlds. Their
knowledge and efforts resulted in the production of Race To Equality,
a year-end project on the struggle of individuals from Brazil, Tibet,
and the United States to overcome racism in higher education.

The students represent a range of high schools from Brooklyn and
Queens, including, Aviation High School, James Baldwin School, the
Academy of American Studies, Banneker Academy, and Hostos Academy.

The Virtual Video Project is part of Global Kids' Online Leadership
Program (OLP) and made possible with funding from the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the New York City Department of
Youth and Community Development. The project was also supported by the
Campaign for Educational Equity at Columbia University.

Please help us by spreading the word, and enjoy the film online.
http://tinyurl.com/5vsmkg

Also click here for more details or read their blogs on our website.
http://www.holymeatballs.org/2008/07/vvp_race_to_equality_watch_the.html

______________________________
Tabitha Tsai
Online Leadership Program
Multimedia Curriculum Specialist

Global Kids Inc.
137 East 25th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10010
Tel: (212) 226-0130 ext.123
Fax: (212) 226-0137
http://www.globalkids.org
http://olp.globalkids.org

CALL FOR ENTRIES: EMYAN Online Arts Festival

CALL FOR ENTRIES: EMYAN Online Arts Festival

The use of internet tools has been in increase in our social and professional lives since new techniques were adapted to facilitate the use of communications tools over the internet in general.

Web 2.0 is a term describing the trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.

In order to promote the use of internet tools in arts, EMYAN launched in May 2007 art 2.0 Initiative.

Leaping into the world of information and communication technology gave the today arts a new dimension which will help forming the arts of the future. Giving new ideas of creation of new arts and also merging of some of the existing arts.

New aims and purposes of art have been arisen in the last few years arguing the world to put a definition of this newly created multi-purpose easy to distribute art.

Euro-Med Young Artists Network is launching a call for entries for its 1st Online Arts Festival which is scheduled to be held online on October 2008.

The festival is in its pilot edition and is organized under EMYAN ZeroBudget Initiative, if it is proved to be successful and gets good feedbacks, it will be adapted to be organized annually and put under more development for its second edition next year.

The festival is open for young artists (up to 30 years old) living in one of the Euro-Med countries in all fields of arts that can be published on the web, special section for web-based arts.

The Rules and Regulations:

1- Geographical Scope:

All Europe & Mediterranean

2- Age Scope:

From 15 to 30 years old.

3 - Entries:

The online entry form is essential and must be completed and submitted online before the deadline. No other way will be accepted.

Multiple entries are encouraged. The same entry can be submitted into different categories. However, it is obligatory to fill in an individual entry form for each category.

4 - Year of Productions:

All entries must have been produced after January 1st, 2005.

5 - Closing Date:

All festival entries must be submitted via the online form no later than September 20th, 2008.

6 - Language Versions: (For lingual entries)

Entries can have any language version.

Non-English versions must have subtitles/description and one written page synopsis in English (optional)

7 - Categories:

All art categories are welcomed as long as it can be published on the internet on any way possible as photos, videos, text or Audio.

Special category for web-based arts.

8 - Rights of Use:

By submitting a festival entry the participant declares, that he is entitled to dispose of all rights to the use of the entry and vouches for these rights vis-a-vis EMYAN. The participant warrants that the rights of use held by all authors, owners of ancillary copyrights and other parties involved in the production of the festival entry, except for the rights safeguarded by the performing rights societies, have been acquired in a due and proper manner and the exploitation of the festival entry is not barred by personality rights or other third party rights in any manner whatsoever.

When submitting a festival entry the participant transfers rights to the use of the festival entry, specifically the right to demonstrate the entry in public either in whole or in part or to distribute the entry in whole or in part on a "Festival Reel" or similar, to the festival. All aforementioned transfers of use shall be of worldwide validity.

EMYAN is encouraging all participant to license their entries via the Creative Common website (www.creativecommons.org).

The festival will be online on EMYAN website from 10 - 20 October 2008.

Performing arts/Music Performance entries will be kindly requested to live broadcast their performance via the internet on one of the festival days.

9 - Hosting of Entries:

Public websites: YouTube, flickr, bliptv, Stickam, DailyMotion, Google Video or any similar website.

Artist's private website or blog.

EMYAN can provide space on its website for artist who need it.

10 - Judging:

Work is judged not just on its creative and technical excellence, but also on how well it speaks to its target audience. International, independent expert jury groups from the participated countries will judge all entries prior to the festival event. Entries are not judged on budget. Entries from large or small organizations have an equal chance of being selected. During the festival, visitors to the festival will be kindly asked to rate the entries. 60% for each selected entry credits will be extracted from the visitors' ratings and 40% from the jury.

11 - Awards:

All the awards are in kind.

All Entries must be submitted using the Online Festival Entry From If you are facing problems using the online form, kindly contact us at (art2 AT emyan DOT org)

Should you have any enquiries, contact us at (info AT emyan DOT org)

ARTICLES: 'Listen to Children Before Clamping Down on Internet' Commissioner Urges MPs to Talk to Young (NORTHERN IRELAND)

'Listen to Children Before Clamping Down on Internet' Commissioner Urges MPs to Talk to Young

By EMILY MOULTON

Northern Ireland's Children's Commissioner today appealed to MPs to "listen" to the views of young people before they plough ahead with any sweeping changes to age classification and access to social networking or video-sharing sites.

Patricia Lewsley was speaking after members from the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee announced yesterday that they believed websites such as You Tube, which broadcast films and other content, should carry age certificates and those with pornographic or violent content should be subjected to a television- style 'watershed'.

"The internet is a potential force for good, for most young people," the commissioner said. "However there is content which is inappropriate for young people.

"Before taking any action, I would encourage decision makers to speak directly to children and young people themselves and to listen to their views.

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NEWS: 6th World Summit on Media for Children newsletter

"Creative crossroads to meet the challenges in the world of young people´s communication"

Newsflash

Top Names preparing for World Summit in Sweden
With almost two years to go, the preparations for Karlstad and Sweden and World Summit 2010 has begun world wide among teachers and media pedagogs, researchers and media professionals, youth organisations and international organisations working for childrens well-being. In early August 2008, almost 200 proposals for topics and activities from 50 countries from five continents, have reached the Summit office in Karlstad. Among those having confirmed their strong interest in coming to Karlstad as keynote speakers are Renee Hobbs (Professor at Temple University in Philadelphia USA), David Buckingham (Professor at University of London UK) and Jordi Torrent (Project Manager at United Nations Alliance of Civilizations New York City). We thank the Advisory Reference Group of 100 people for their great support during this spring.

We welcome your best ideas

Although, in some areas we especially welcome more input and ideas globally. From the Baltic region, the Balkans and Eastern Europe, we especially welcome proposals for one month, until September 1. We now encourage all who are interested in the areas of ”Freedom of speach”, ”Youth to youth communication” and ”Future outlooks on new technology for communication” to make your proposals. Go to www.wskarlstad2010.se/topics.php and login with: summit2010

The web page is open until September 1!

 

International activities

 

Asia Media Summit Kuala Lumpur

In May at the Asia Media Summit in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, World Summit Project Management prepared with AIBD General Secretary Javad Mottaghi the engagement on preparations and participation of Asia Pacific AIBD members inviting all to make proposals and preparations for the 2010 World Summit. The response was a strong and promising one detailing project cooperations.

 

Media Overseas Conversations New York City

In June at the Media: Overseas Conversations, Director Per Lundgren moderated the talks on Media Literacy status in Europe with panellists Cary Bazalgette and Manel Jimenez, and met at United Nations Headquarters with Alliance of Civilizations project management Jordi Torrent for cooperations with World Summit. A number of project cooperation initiatives were followed up on and agreed on.

 

Corvara Italy Media education Summer School

In the Dolomites, the Italian Media Education Association organised its 17^th Summer School and Director Per Lundgren participated by invitation in media education workshops, lectures and held a key note speech on the preparations for the World Summit in Karlstad 2010. The result was several projects initiatives and a coming cooperation bringing the summer school to Sweden in 2010 open to all. The Italian Media Education Association proved to be role model for engaged media education work creating meetings between media educators, researchers, policy makers and media professionals. The Med Media Education from Italy interviewed Director Per Lundgren about what is to come in World Summit 2010.

Read the interview>>


Website - http://www.wskarlstad2010.se/

NEWS / INTERNET: 100,000 kids join CBBC social network (UK)

100,000 kids join CBBC social network

The BBC has said its social networking site for young children, MyCBBC, has reached 100,000 registered users in four months, as the corporation addresses demand for safe social media tools for younger children.

MyCBBC was launched shortly before an official report by media regulator Ofcom found that more than a quarter of eight- to 11-year-olds in the UK regularly use social networking sites designed for older children and teenagers.

Bebo, Facebook, MySpace and most other major networks require users to be at least 13. A smaller number of sites offer services for younger children, because of tighter safety demands.

MyCBBC, which was developed with production company TwoFour Digital, is designed for six- to 12-year-olds, and invites them to design their own "dens" with furniture and accessories. It also offers material related to BBC children's programmes to customise the page.

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ARTICLES / INTERNET: MPs call for greater internet regulation (UK)

MPs call for greater internet regulation

By Joe Lepper - Children & Young People Now
31 July 2008

MPs are calling on the internet industry to set up a self-regulatory body to ensure children are protected online.

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EVENTS: Leeds Young People's Film Festival (UK)

The 10th Leeds Young Peoples' Film Festival 
is now accepting submissions for the 2009 Festival, taking place on

Thu 2 April - Fri 10 April 2009

We are now looking for exciting and innovative films made both FOR and BY children and young people from across the UK and the world. The films can be shorts or features in any genre (fiction, documentary, animation) and in any format. With an established reputation as the most interactive young peoples' Festival in the United Kingdom, we want films that will excite and motivate our audiences and that showcase the best and newest young filmmakers from around the globe.

NYFA (National Young Filmmakers' Award) is for short films made BY children and young people (up to 19 years old) in the UK. Selected films will be entered into competition where a jury comprising of industry professionals will award £250 prizes in two age categories to the chosen films.

Deadline for entries is Friday 30th January 2009.

LYPFF - this category is for any films that are made specifically FOR children and young people. Entries can be any length, genre or format and submissions from anywhere in the world are welcomed.
Deadline for entries is Monday 15th December 2008.

If your film is completed, please send it in now!

Go to www.leedsyoungfilm.com to download the entry forms.

Debbie Maturi
Head of Leeds Young Film
Director, Leeds Young People's Film Festival

Leeds Film, The Town Hall, The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AD, UK
T: +44 (0)113 2478398. F: +44 (0)113 2478494
www.leedsyoungfilm.com
www.mediafish.org
www.leedsfilm.com

Part of Leeds City Council and supported by Screen Yorkshire and MEDIA, Leeds Film organises:
- 22nd Leeds International Film Festival, 4th - 16th November 2008
- 10th Leeds Young People's Film Festival, 2nd - 10th April 2009
- Leeds Film Academy
- MediaFish - Explore Experiment Experience.Film.

Leeds Film is a member of:
- European Children's Film Association (www.ecfaweb.org)
- International Festivals and Events Association (www.ifea.com)
- European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation (www.melies.org)