The Doha Giffoni Youth Media Summit took place during the Ajyal Youth Film Festival in Doha, Qatar. Held over December 2nd and 3rd, the inaugural summit brought together youth festival directors and industry delegates in order to discuss challenges and opportunities around cultural events that base their core audience and subjects on youths. The Seoul International Youth Film Festival (SIYFF) attended the event as the representative from Korea and had an opportunity to share Korean IT technology and its importance in youth media education.

 

Other attendees of the youth-based event included Italy, Canada, the UK, the United Arab Emirates and Japan for a total of 26 countries. Not only was the summit important in sharing knowledge about their own cultural events, but it also created a chance for organizations to discuss partnerships for future endeavors. Especially with the recent MOU signing between SYIFF and Asia International Youth Film Festival, it is evident that there has been a rise in establishing partnerships and collaborations.

 

At the next SYIFF, which is to be held from June 11th to the 19th, the Seoul International Media Education Summit will be held which will feature professionals in the audiovisual sector from 60 different countries working in children, youth, government or IT.