Once again Black Cat Productions is partnering with the Reel Youth Film Festival (RYFF) to bring a feast of youth-created films back to the Sunshine Coast.
The festival screens for one night only on Monday, Jan. 12, at the Roberts Creek Hall. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., films begin at 7. Admission is $8 for adults and $6 for youth.
The RYFF is a project of Reel Youth - a non-profit organization whose mandate is to empower young people (aged 19 years and under) throughout the Pacific Northwest through the media arts, supporting the creation and distribution of films about their visions for a better world and the issues that concern them most. RY facilitates mobile stop motion animation, claymation and video making programs that create messages young people most want to share with their community and the world. These messages are shared in community screenings and over the Internet, and selected films are showcased as part of the Touring Reel Youth Film Festival.
"The Reel Youth Film Festival is discovering and promoting the next generation of film makers," said festival organizer Mark Vonesch. "The festival empowers young people to speak up and express themselves through film. It's an opportunity for audiences to see the best of youth filmmaking while gaining insight into youth culture and the issues affecting young people."
Surprisingly insightful and entertaining, the RYFF collects films from across Canada, the U.S. and abroad to put together an incredible evening of some of the best youth filmmaking today.
The movies are submitted from independent filmmakers, media classes, youth groups and Reel Youth programs. A youth jury selects the films that tour across Canada and the U.S. Audience votes choose the winning films, and awards go to the associated youth to support their ongoing filmmaking.
Full of humour, vitality and creativity, this year's films range from a bitter-sweet documentary on a gang of street kids in Mysore, India, to a young man schooled on beauty in spoken word, to a touching expose from four young women on happiness, to a hilarious look at how to quit your job.
More information is available from [email protected], 604-886-2780 or at www.reelyouth.ca.
