Through the screenings of these films, kids can share their visions with kids and with adults. Kids take stock of the diverse array of social causes and issues around which our world's young people are becoming mobilized to illuminate and act upon the interconnections between circumstances at home and around the world. Through film, and with their intense and dogged curiosity about how the world works, they can find a new way to communicate to a wider audience how to change the status quo and interface between world youth activism and global engagement, and the ways young activists can work together to tackle their common global issues. We are building a bridge, through the art of film, to encourage international awareness and understanding for young people from the elementary grades through high school. This commitment, this yearning, broadens out to a sense of community responsibility that is internationalist in its scope.
Global issues strike home.
It is such an exploration that this competition seeks to launch, by championing globally-minded youth activism among young people around the world, and the ways in which these young activists can work together to tackle global issues creatively, through animation films, documentary films and short films.