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The Youth Media Alliance (YMA) seeks to enrich the lives of Canadian children and teens by helping improve the quality of the content created for them on all screen-based media. The Alliance pursues its mission of encouraging high-quality content by presenting annual awards of excellence to the best productions targeting young English- and French-speaking Canadians, and emerging talent by awarding scholarships.
Montréal, March 18, 2025 – The Youth Media Alliance (YMA) wishes to highlight the immense contribution of Janette Bertrand to Quebec culture. A true icon of our television landscape, she has left a lasting mark on generations through her boldness, forward-thinking vision, and commitment to the quality of the content she created— quality of content is a value that are at the heart of YMA’s mission.
Montreal, March 12, 2025 – Youth Media Alliance (YMA) is pleased to announce the nominees for their Awards of Excellence. The winners will be revealed during a gala evening on May 28th at CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. Based on the YMA’s Statement of Quality, jury members have selected the following nominees:
Montréal, March 5th, 2025 – The Youth Media Alliance (YMA) is thrilled to announce that Taran Kim and Angela Son, stars of Gangnam Project, will host the 2025 YMA Awards of Excellence Gala. The highly anticipated event will take place at CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto on May 28, 2025, celebrating the best in Canadian youth media.
Montreal, November 27, 2024 - YMA invites the youth media community to a cross-Canada forum, presented virtually in English and French, to discuss the realities and challenges we face, on December 12, 2024 from 2 to 4 p.m. and/or to submit a discussion paper by December 10, 2024.
YMA will be pleased to present its Youth Media Conference on November 5 and 6, 2024 in Montreal - a one-day conference followed by a one-day screening of the Prix Jeunesse International.
Alongside the conference's impressive list of speakers, panelists and moderators, the winner of the YMA 2025 Andra Sheffer Scholarship will be announced, the YMA AGM will take place and Board members will be elected, and finally the YMA Prix Jeunesse will be presented, including the Prix Jeunesse 2024 from Munich.
Annually, the YMA gathers all the best and most innovative programme entries from the latest PRIX JEUNESSE INTERNATIONAL festival happening every second year in Munich.
The YMA Prix Jeunesse is meant to be a training tool that carries the festival’s creative and challenging atmosphere worldwide. It includes, on the given year that the international event occurs, the screening of the Prix Jeunesse International winners within the programming of the YMA Children & Youth Conference, and on the hiatus year of the international event, all videos are made available on the YMA Media Gallery.
This is a unique opportunity to see content from around the world that you won’t find anywhere else.
CONTACT INFORMATION
5165 Sherbrooke West Suite 407 | Montreal, QC CANADA H4A 1T6
514 483-5417 | alliance@ymamj.org
When in Toronto: We, the YMA, acknowledge the land we work on is the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We also acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit and the Williams Treaty signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands.
When in Montreal: We, the YMA, acknowledge that the land on which we gather is the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) Nation, who have long served as the custodians of these lands and waters. Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) has historically been a place of meeting and exchange among many First Nations and continues to be home to a diverse Indigenous community.
The YMA supports and promotes the narrative sovereignty of all Indigenous nations
