The Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards is an international juried media competition that recognizes projects that best illustrate the program’s ‘Create with Purpose’ philosophy. Winning submissions are original, high-quality youth-produced multimedia created to address critical issues and effect positive change.
The Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards is an international juried media competition that recognizes projects that best illustrate the program’s ‘Create with Purpose’ philosophy. Winning submissions are original, high-quality youth-produced multimedia created to address critical issues and effect positive change.
The film includes imagery of flowers in a body of water (lyrics, music and singing written and performed by Julia Lawrence). The poem written by Julia Lawrence is displayed in each frame of the film.
A powerful film created to convince those who are self-esteem deficient and those who are going through tough times that there is a way through everything, whether it be through art, writing, or other means.
This was the first time that Issa had used computer software as an integral part of the work he was creating, using photoshop to explore ways in which to blur the concrete and fantasy in his piece which explores flying.
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Redwood City Adobe Youth Voices Peapod Academy
Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest selection. This work was created over three weeks as part of the Adobe Youth Voices Filmmaking Camp at Cinequest and premiered March 7, 2009 at a special screening at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA.