International Youth Media Summit (IYMS) is an annual two-week event in which young people from different cultures gather to create media projects to inspire their generation to act responsibly for the future. They discuss and examine global problems, and explore solutions together. By sharing a common goal, barriers of misunderstanding and ignorance will disappear, friendships will emerge, creativity will flow, and films will be produced. In the process, young people will set up an example for a peaceful, dynamic, and cooperative world. Over the past decade, more than 600 teenagers and adults represented 50 countries participating in IYMS.
At each Summit, young people work to create a short one- to two-minute “social advertising” videoclip with the goal of inspiring young people to engage and take action to solve big global issues such as: Women’s Rights, Environment, Violence, Discrimination, Health, Youth Empowerment, Poverty.
Fondazione Malagutti onlus is a partner of IYMS and part of its board of directors.
See the list of members of the IYMS Board of Directors:
https://iyms.org/advisory-board/
See the list of members of the IYMS Youth Committee:
https://iyms.org/youth-committee/
Summit 2022
Falkenberg (Sweden), July 27 – August 7, 2022
The 17th IYMS Summit took place in Falkenberg, Sweden, from July 27 to August 7, 2022.
Fondazione Malagutti onlus participated with some selected students from the high schools in Mantua, who worked in a team with teenagers of other countries to make a short film.
Summit 2017
Falkenberg (Sweden), July 27 – August 9, 2017
Young activists, producers and professionals from all over the world gathered in Falkenberg from July 27 to August 9 to propose solutions to global problems (Environment, Violence, Poverty, Discrimination, Health, Women’s Rights, Youth Empowerment), through commercials.
The Summit 2017 was hosted by “Region Halland”, a Swedish institution that places culture and creative initiatives at the base of democratic and entrepreneurial development. The event took place at the “Media Academy” of Katrinbergs Folkhögskola, a folk school whose mission is to be active in society, culture and human rights. During the summer period it hosts several classes and IYMS has enriched the offer with new perspectives and influences.
Summit 2016
Kathmandu, Nepal; July 27 – August 9, 2016
Young filmmakers and social activists from over 25 countries gathered in Kathmandu, Nepal from July 27 to August 9, 2016 for the 11th International Youth Media Summit. That was first time the Summit had been held in Asia; the opportunity of Nepal as the host nation generated great agreement as we are engaging in a new decade of building bridges between people through film and action.
Why Nepal?
Nepal was devastated by an earthquake in the spring of 2015. Just three months after the earthquake, Sapan Hamal from Public Access (Nepal) arrived in Belgrade for the 10th IYMS as the first representative from Nepal in the organization’s 10-year history. During his stay, Sapan raised donations to build temporary schools in Nepal, something he and his friends engaged to do after the earthquake left thousands of children without schools. Sapan was motivated by his experience at the Summit to bring the event to his home country; this idea quickly became a reality, and Public Access Nepal hosted the 2016 Summit.
The Origins
IYMS was founded in 2006 by three teachers: Evelyne Seubert, James Gleason (both from Cleaveland Charter High School, Los Angeles, California), and Aileen Marshall (Screen School, Glasgow, Scotland), and coordinated by the Teen International Media Exchange (TIME).
TIME was born on September 11, 2011, when the tragedy of the terrorist attacks motivated a group of film instructors in Los Angeles who were looking for a way to break the cycle of violence and revenge that threatened to overtake the lives of the young people they worked with. The teachers had seen the teenagers’ amazing ability to cooperate, reach agreements, and understand each other to create a film that they could see themselves in, despite their ethnic differences. TIME’s first project in 2002 was done online with students from Scotland and through a in-person collaboration with people from Korea and Belize.
In 2006, TIME hosted the International Youth Media Summit (IYMS), bringing together 85 people from 26 countries to work together on media projects that would motivate other generations to take action. Over the past 10 years, TIME has continued to collaborate on projects with more than 700 American and international students, allowing the Summit to involve more than 500 teenagers and adults from 50 countries and to reach more than 200,000 people with films created by young people.
In 2007, the Summit was held in Sydney, Australia. It was hosted by Vahid Vahed of Cenewest. Miomir Rajcevic and the Media Education Centre hosted the Summit in Belgrade, Serbia, in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015. The 2014 Summit was held at Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, California and it was hosted by James Gleason, Kate Rundolph and Evelyne Seubert.