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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.  In pursuing its mission, the Alliance encourageshigh-quality content by presenting annual awards of excellence to the best productions targeting young English- and French-speaking Canadians. It offers ongoing training tailored to the special needs of youth production professionals through workshops, seminars, and special events such as the Children, Youth & Media and Média-Jeunes conferences. It also offers membership benefits with rabates to entry fees to major events organized in the industry. For more information, choose an event from the dropdown menu.

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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. The YMA supports and promotes the narrative sovereignty of all Indigenous nations.

For events in Montréal:

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

 

 

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Montreal, March 26, 2024 - YMA invites the youth media community to a cross-Canada Town Hall Forum on April 16 2025 at 2 p.m. ET, presented virtually in English and French, to continue sharing the issues you are facing during this virtual gathering; recap all that has been done recently, share updates on different consultations and actions taken, AND what is the funding landscape now, and moving forward what is next. 

Montreal, March 26, 2024 - YMA invites the youth media community to a cross-Canada Town Hall Forum on April 16 2025 at 2 p.m. ET, presented virtually in English and French, to continue sharing the issues you are facing during this virtual gathering; recap all that has been done recently, share updates on different consultations and actions taken, AND what is the funding landscape now, and moving forward what is next. 

Join the YMA for an exciting information session and get ready to hit the ground running!

Explore the changing landscape of how to get your children’s production funded.

Understand the mandates and priorities of the various Certified Independent Production Funds (CIPFs)

Hear about new funding programs available from different organizations.

Learn who is eligible and how to access the funds.

Gain insights into what will make your applications stand out and meet the guidelines.

Q and A to follow the panel discussions.


Program

  • A conversation with Agnes Augustin, CEO – Shaw Rocket Fund:
    • Recap all that has been done recently,
    • Share updates on different consultations and actions taken,
    • Moving forward what is next
  • What the funding landscape is now ; Inform Canadian producers of the many new certified production funding available through different organizations such as SRF, CMF-FMC, SODEC, ISO, Bell, Telus, Fond Québecor
  • Q&A Period

We will make our best effort to conduct the town hall as a bilingual discussion

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2025 Kidscreen Summit

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(available until April 25)

 

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