About Us -
Partners & Funders
The ‘we’ behind Youth in Media is the Sierra Club of Canada, BC Chapter and Gumboot Productions Inc. Our organizations share a commitment to raising public awareness about environmental issues and to empowering young people.
Youth in Media wouldn’t be possible without the help of our funders:
- the One-Tonne Challenge;
- the Climate Change Action Fund; and
- the BC Ministry of Environment.
We also thank our partners:
- The Gulf Islands Film and Television School (GIFTS) is an innovative live/work media centre located on Galiano Island, BC. GIFTS is a full service film school offering on-site training in acting, directing, camera operation, lighting, sound and editing for drama, documentary, classical and computer animation films. Over the past years, hundreds of students have expanded their career options and media skills from attending GIFTS.
- The Access to Media Education Society (AMES) is a registered charity dedicated to providing broad-based access to media training, producing community-based media programming and promoting media literacy and ethically responsible image production.
And a supporter:
- Rocketday Arts is a communications firm specializing in work for education, for the arts and for environmental activism. Rocketday has built this website to W3C compliant XHTML and CSS, adhering to guidelines set forth by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.