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Exiiting Conference !
Toronto - November 2025
6 sessions to determine
Call for Speakers or Panelists
Do you have a great idea for a session at The YMA Conference?
We'd love to hear about it!
The Youth Media Alliance (YMA) seeks to enrich the lives of Canadian children and teens by helping improve the quality of the content created for them on all screen-based media. The Alliance pursues its mission of encouraging high-quality content by presenting annual awards of excellence to the best productions targeting young English- and French-speaking Canadians, and emerging talent by awarding scholarships.
Montreal, June 12, 2025 – Youth Media Alliance (YMA) is pleased to announce the return of its Children, Youth & Media Conference, set to take place in Toronto this November. This flagship event will bring together over a hundred professionals from the youth media industry to engage in insightful discussions, panels, and networking opportunities.
Across Canada’s screen industry, organizations are coming together to say: this is what we stand for.
The Canadian Screen Industry Statement of Values is an initiative of the Collaborative Network—a national group of senior leaders from funding bodies, broadcasters, guilds, associations, equity-focused organizations, and training institutions. It reflects a shared commitment to equity, accountability, and the future of our industry.
This isn’t just a statement of belief—it’s a call to action.
Toronto, May 28, 2025 – The Youth Media Alliance (YMA) unveiled the winners of the 2025 Awards of Excellence at a touching and hilarious gala held in Toronto at the famous Glenn Gould Studios. The event was hosted by Angela Son and Taran Kim from The Gangnam Project, and scripted by Daniel Fernandes. The YMA celebrates the best in Canadian media production for children and youth. 18 awards and 1 tribute were awarded during the evening
Montreal, March 26, 2024 - YMA invites the youth media community to a cross-Canada Town Hall Forum on April 16 2025 at 2 p.m. ET, presented virtually in English and French, to continue sharing the issues you are facing during this virtual gathering; recap all that has been done recently, share updates on different consultations and actions taken, AND what is the funding landscape now, and moving forward what is next.
Montreal, November 27, 2024 - YMA invites the youth media community to a cross-Canada forum, presented virtually in English and French, to discuss the realities and challenges we face, on December 12, 2024 from 2 to 4 p.m. and/or to submit a discussion paper by December 10, 2024.
YMA will be pleased to present its Youth Media Conference on November 5 and 6, 2024 in Montreal - a one-day conference followed by a one-day screening of the Prix Jeunesse International.
Alongside the conference's impressive list of speakers, panelists and moderators, the winner of the YMA 2025 Andra Sheffer Scholarship will be announced, the YMA AGM will take place and Board members will be elected, and finally the YMA Prix Jeunesse will be presented, including the Prix Jeunesse 2024 from Munich.
CONTACT INFORMATION
5165 Sherbrooke West Suite 407 | Montreal, QC CANADA H4A 1T6
514 483-5417 | alliance@ymamj.org
When in Toronto: We, the YMA, acknowledge the land we work on is the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We also acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit and the Williams Treaty signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands.
When in Montreal: We, the YMA, acknowledge that the land on which we gather is the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) Nation, who have long served as the custodians of these lands and waters. Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) has historically been a place of meeting and exchange among many First Nations and continues to be home to a diverse Indigenous community.
The YMA supports and promotes the narrative sovereignty of all Indigenous nations
