EYID: StrangerFestival

StrangerFestival is a youth video project developed by communities in 18 EU Member States. It enables 1.000.000 young people to express themselves and create a platform where they can link their experience to the wider European context. StrangerFestival is an initiative of the European Cultural Foundation and takes place in the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. The project wants to demonstrate that young people care about their society and want to play a role in shaping its future. StrangerFestival is also a catalyst for new cross-border partnership- both in terms of geography as well as discipline. The StrangerFestival project develops new means for intercultural and intergenerational dialogue through 23 video workshops in nine countries, and an interactive website, youth debates, an international festival, exhibitions in 30 cities and a video competition with the winners put on air by the public service broadcaster all across Europe. The video competition ends May 15. All finalists are invited to Amsterdam 3-5 July for the StrangerFestival. All finalists are featured as part of a European exhibition-on-tour and on a DVD distributed in 20.000 copies across Europe.