PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival 2025 for young filmmakers worldwide (all expenses paid to PLURAL+ Awards Ceremony in New York, USA)

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Application Deadline:  31 May 2025, 5:00pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT/ New York time)

Applications are actually open for the 2025 PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival. PLURAL+ is a youth video competition that encourages and empowers international youth to discover the problems of migration, variety, social inclusion, and the prevention of xenophobia and to share their inventive imaginative and prescient with the world. Launched in 2009, PLURAL+ is a joint initiative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), with a community of more than 50 partner organizations across the globe.

Requirements

The PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival (hereinafter “PLURAL+”) is open to young folks of all nationalities with a eager curiosity in the cross-cutting problems with migration, variety, social inclusion, and the prevention of xenophobia.

Entrants to PLURAL+ have to be no older than 25 years previous on the time of the manufacturing of their movies.

PLURAL+ is organized into three age classes:

1. 12 years previous and underneath
2. 13 to 17 years previous
3. 18 to 25 years previous

Anyone can seem in your video, nevertheless it should replicate your perspective as a young filmmaker on migration, variety, and social inclusion, in addition to the particular themes/classes of the present version. 

Benefits

• Recipients of the International Jury Distinctions and Special Recognitions are invited to the placement of the PLURAL+ Ceremony, all expenses paid. (While the venue might sometimes change, many of the previous Ceremonies have been hosted in New York.)
• The invitation covers the journey and lodging expenses of 1 particular person per video solely. If you submit a video as a bunch, just one particular person shall be invited to obtain the popularity on behalf of the complete group and subsequently just one particular person shall be coated to journey. Other members of the group are welcome to attend the Ceremony at their very own expense. In the case of individuals underneath the age of 18, the invitation may even cowl the journey and lodging prices of an grownup chaperone (guardian or authorized guardian).

PLURAL+ video entries have to be:

• Between one (1) and 5 (5) minutes in size, together with title(s) and opening/closing credit. If an entry is barely under or above the aforementioned time restrict, will probably be reviewed and evaluated on a case-to-case foundation on the discretion of the PLURAL+ workforce.
• In English or have English subtitles
• Created or produced after 1 January 2022.

In addition, PLURAL+ video entries will be of any style (animation, documentary, music video, comedy, and so forth.) so long as they’ve the potential to make the viewers assume in constructive methods in regards to the PLURAL+ themes – migration, variety, social inclusion, and the prevention of xenophobia.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival