Get ready for an incredible journey! From 2024 to 2025, we're thrilled to launch 6 new programs in partnership with TELUS STORYHIVE, all aimed at amplifying the voices of young creators. Don't miss out on the excitement—follow Reel Youth on Facebook and Instagram for the latest updates on these amazing initiatives! 🚀✨
Program dates: January - February 2025 (online - more details & sign up)
The FRESH CONNECTIONS 4 Film Program is an online workshop that brings together people from across BC, to produce short video poems exploring local histories and current land rights issues, in the context of reconciliation. More details and application for the program.
Submission Period: November 2024 - June 2025 (learn more and submit here)
A curated selection of youth made shorts and film festival screenings featuring the work of Reel Youth alumni, program partners, and high school students from across BC and AB. An online showcase for students in BC and Alberta to exhibit their filmmaking and storytelling talents, on TELUS Optik TV through our collaboration with TELUS STORYHIVE. Additionally, those who submit their films will be in the running to receive a $100 prize for their contributions. Five filmmakers will be selected.
Program dates: TBA 2025
Youth participants will foster their creativity, self-expression, and leadership skills by learning filmmaking techniques while forming intergenerational relationships to tell stories about the lives and experiences of their Elders.
View previous films from this program here.
Program dates: TBA 2025 (Online, application deadline: TBA)
This introspective virtual film program engages emerging film makers to chose a space close to them to make films specific to historical and cultural geography of their surroundings. The program is centered around decolonizing place and the structures of cinema as participants plan, shoot, and edited their own deeply personal short films.
Watch the finished films from last year's program here.
In our work we strive to embody what we hope to see in the world—a just humanity and community in which people are free to be themselves fully and without fear. A community where no one is exiled or silenced because of gender, gender expression, race, color, ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual/affectional orientation, age, class, physical character or disability. We believe in the power of storytelling to make connections across differences.
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