yeffswed

young european film forum

Young European Film Forum for Cultural Diversity
In 2009, Northern Visions became a Yeff! partner with the Yeff! Sweden 2009 organised by FilmCentrum-Väst in Gothenburg and Umeå.
Yeff! is a European youth film meeting, promoting youth involvement in modern media and offering a forum where young people from all over Europe can meet and present their films on cultural diversity issues.
Every two years a Yeff! film forum takes place in a different European city. Young people from all over Europe are asked to produce films on the topic of cultural diversity and to present their work at the Yeff! forum. Participants are encouraged to reflect on their images in modern media, to learn how to represent their own realities and to present their intercultural experience or experience of migration.  YEFF! promote work from young people whose voices might normally be regarded as marginal and who don't have direct access to media institutions.... a fresh body of work from new voices which reveal new truths from a spectrum of cultures across the new Europe.
Yeff! is also concerned to impact on media literacy. Young people experience film and TV as a means of communication within their everyday lives, but they are not restricted to being passive consumers.
With access to affordable video production and postproduction equipment, they have the means to become empowered producers. Understanding media and films is promoted by practicing filmmaking and experiencing television production, which encourages technical expertise as well as social participation and cultural empowerment.

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