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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.

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Award of Excellence 2025

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YMA-TAAFI John Rooney Creator Scholarship

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First 50 New
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2025 YMA-TAAFI John Rooney Creator Scholarship : Call for Applications Starting Today!

Montreal, December 18, 2024 – The call for applications for the 2025 YMA-TAAFI John Rooney Creator Scholarship is open now and until January 19, 2025!

Since 2021 - and in memory of John Rooney - the Youth Media Alliance (YMA) and Toronto Animation Arts Festival International (TAAFI) are establishing the John Rooney Creator Fund to honor Rooney’s ardent support of LGBTQ2S+ talent in children’s, youth, and family animation.

English-speaking Awards of Excellence: Call for entries now open!

Montreal, December 16, 2024 - The Youth Media Alliance (YMA) is launching its call for entries for the next English-speaking Awards of Excellence. This year, the competition is open to Canadian children's and youth productions whose original language is English, and which were broadcast in Canada between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2024. Finally, 3 new prizes have also been added to further celebrate the children's media industry.

Invitation to Join YMA – Final Sprint for the 50th Anniversary

First 50 New Individual Memberships Free Until December 31!

This year, as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Youth Media Alliance (YMA), we’re launching a special offer to mark half a century of excellence in youth media: the first 50 new individual memberships are FREE!

To take advantage of this exclusive offer, send an email to alliance@ymamj.org to receive your promo code.

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Upcoming Events

YMA invites the industry to its Town Hall Forum

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.

Registration for the 2024 Youth Media Conference are open!

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.

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Register for the YMA Prix Jeunesse International

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.

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