The 2012 imagineNATIVE Film + Video Tour and its video-making workshops have come to an end, and imagineNATIVE invites the public – you – to vote on your favourite youth-made video, starting June 18. The youth video-maker with the most votes wins a trip to the 2012 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto to attend a screening of their work. This 2nd annual online voting exhibition is the result of imagineNATIVE’s unique touring workshop “My Space. My Story.” led by filmmaker and artist Keesic Douglas.

Voting took place from June 18-29, 2012 and does not require sign-up when casting your vote. The website offered the public a chance to vote on 25 short videos, all created by Ontario-based Indigenous youth aged 10-29. The winning video will be included in the Youth Shorts Program as a part of the 2012 Festival this October 17-21, and its creator brought to Toronto to attend its exciting premiere! Results will be announced on July 2.

“We are incredibly excited to see the motivation and interest from young people all over Ontario – our next generation of filmmakers and artists. Each youth not only learned to produce a video with their own equipment, but they now have the knowledge to continue making work” says Sage Paul, Events and Communications Director.

The videos, which were all produced using equipment at-hand such as point-and-shoot cameras, are the result of these innovative workshops. imagineNATIVE’s Film + Video Tour also brought a Youth Shorts Program and Wapos Bay: Long Goodbyes (the Closing Night feature presentation from imagineNATIVE 2011) to 13 communities in Northeastern, Western and Southern Ontario.

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