Children and Young People Use Video Cameras to Fight Intolerance and Develop Social Inclusiveness.

On 18 December 2009, the PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival Awards Ceremony was held at The Paley Center for Media in New York City.

The International Jury of PLURAL+ announced the following winners:
9-12 age category: “Warda”, by the Arab Educational Institute of Bethlehem and Camera-etc, Belgium. A group of 12 Palestinian children produced an animated video that deals with the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the way young people perceive the wall between Palestine and Israel.
13-17 age category: “Who am I?”, by Youngmin Kim, from the Republic of South Korea. A clay-animated video narrating the challenges of a young Korean girl whose father is Korean and the mother is of Uzbek descent.
18-25 age category: “Something to Exchange: a dialogue between old and new migrants”, by Veronica Owusu Kyei, Yanira Incio Noe and Zouine Chaimaa, Italy. A documentary produced by a group of young girls from Ghana, Morocco and Peru, the documentary challenges misperceptions of recent immigrant communities in Italy.

A selection of videos from the PLURAL + Program were presented. To see the Awards Ceremony program, please click here.

The PLURAL+ Program, made up of the 18 awarded videos, will be presented and screened at events, festivals, conferences and meetings around the world throughout 2010.   To view the list of videos included in the PLURAL+ Program, click here.

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We received outstanding and engaging videos from around the world for PLURAL+ 2009, a pre-selection committee identified 35 entries to be considered for awards. To view these videos, please click here to be linked to UNESCO Audio-Visual E-Platform.

A special thank you from the PLURAL+ Team and the Partner Organizations to all the young media makers who participated in PLURAL+ 2009. Your videos are powerful, inspiring and show remarkable talent and commitment to building a more inclusive and cohesive world.  We are currently in the process of planning for PLURAL+ 2010,  please keep checking back for updates.