Call for Videos: PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival 2025 – YOA

Deadline: June 15, 2025

Applications are open for the PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival 2025. PLURAL+ is a youth video pageant that encourages and empowers international youth to discover the problems of migration, range, social inclusion, and the prevention of xenophobia and to share their inventive imaginative and prescient with the world.

The PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival is a joint initiative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) that invites the world’s youth to submit authentic and inventive movies specializing in the themes of migration, range and social inclusion. By supporting the distribution of youth-produced media, PLURAL+ acknowledges youth as highly effective brokers of constructive social change in a world typically characterised by intolerance, and cultural and non secular divisions.

Benefits

• Recipients of the International Jury Distinctions and Special Recognitions are invited to the placement of the PLURAL+ Ceremony, all bills 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 bills of 1 particular person per video solely. If you submit a video as a bunch, just one particular person can be invited to obtain the popularity on behalf of all the group and subsequently just one particular person can 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 beneath the age of 18, the invitation may also cowl the journey and lodging prices of an grownup chaperone (father or mother or authorized guardian).
• PLURAL+ recipients of Partner Recognitions are invited to attend the ceremony at their very own expense.
• The ceremony is attended yearly by a various, international viewers (United Nations staff, media professionals, representatives of civil society organizations, lecturers, and many others.). PLURAL+ recipients achieve worldwide publicity and the OPPORTUNITY to attach and community with a large number of pros, friends, and organizations and to discover alternatives for additional distribution and dissemination of their work. Partner recognitions differ in keeping with the Partner group.
• Filmmakers who obtain recognition by means of any of the PLURAL+ distinctions, in addition to these acknowledged by PLURAL+ Partners, will obtain digital certificates. Shortlisted movies that didn’t obtain any distinctions may also be granted a digital certificates of participation.

Eligibility

• Open to younger folks of all nationalities with a eager curiosity within the cross-reducing problems with migration, range, social inclusion, and the prevention of xenophobia.
• Entrants to PLURAL+ should be 25 years outdated or much less on the time of the manufacturing of their movies.
• PLURAL+ is organized into three age classes:
  • as much as 12 years outdated
  • 13 to 17 years outdated and
  • 18 to 25 years outdated.
• While the folks showing within the video shouldn’t have to be younger, it is crucial that the video displays the ideas and opinions of the younger filmmaker(s) about migration, range, social inclusion, and xenophobia. The particular person submitting the video (“the entrant”) should be actively concerned in its making; e.g. both as a director, author, digital camera particular person, editor, actor, coordinator, and many others.
• Immediate members of the family of employees members of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and members of the PLURAL+ International Jury should not eligible to enter the competitors.

Application

Provide the entire required info. Incomplete submissions will result in disqualification.

The type will ask you to submit your movies in one in every of two methods:

• Through a video-streaming web site (e.g. YouTube or Vimeo). If submitting by means of this selection, the entrant can be requested to incorporate the URL of the video within the on-line type. The entrant should make sure that the video hyperlink is accessible and never non-public.
• Through a file-internet hosting web site (e.g. Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, and many others.) the place the entrant’s video is saved. If submitting by means of this selection, you’ll be requested to incorporate the URL of the video within the on-line type. The entrant should make sure that the video hyperlink is accessible and never non-public.

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For extra info, go to PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival.