Today’s youth are becoming ever more aware of the power that they can wield with the use of digital media, and of the international audience that is waiting to hear what they have to say. On Saturday April 23rd, the Reel Youth Film Festival, in partnership with Cumberland Community Schools Society
(CCSS), will provide a stage for young filmmakers to show their stuff in Cumberland. The event takes place at 7:00pm at Cumberland Community School Strathcona Gym.
This collection of 19 short films from Latvia, Iran, Kosovo as well as North America and two from Cumberland is as diverse as it is courageous. The disarming beauty and wit of the films are at turns both warm and unsettling – and in all cases, the films examine what it means to be a young person in today’s world.
The Reel Youth Film Festival (RYFF), which opens at the Vancouver International FIlm Festival, is being hosted by Cumberland youth as a fundraiser for the CCSS Youth Centre in Cumberland.
Tickets are $15 or $8 (youth 18 and under) and are available online at Eventbrite, at the CCSS Youth Centre, or at the door. Thank you to our local community sponsors: The Eagle Radio, First Credit Union, Shoreline Orthodontics and Daryl Robbins CGA.
The RYFF is a project of Reel Youth – a Canadian non-profit whose mandate is to empower young voices through the media arts. Reel Youth’s facilitators deliver issue-based animation and video production programs to youth groups throughout Canada and the world.
Major sponsors of the festival include the Vancouver Foundation and Tides Canada Initiatives.
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