Grade 11 pupil, Antoni entered a Nationwide brief video competitors known as #SharetheShorts, a youth video creation competitors supposed to advertise organ donation consciousness in Canada. The competitors is sponsored by the Ajmera Transplant Centre for Dwelling Organ Donation at College Well being Community (UHN) in Toronto.
The Ajmera Transplant Centre will use the content material created to not solely assist elevate consciousness but in addition to “have interaction college students and educators within the creation of participating and informative content material that may enchantment to youthful and extra numerous viewers, and to construct a library of modern short-form video content material public consciousness messages for taking part companions, social media influencers and youth to share on social media.”
Lots of the younger creators labored collaboratively however Antoni selected to tackle the problem by himself and ended up inventive a really emotional and spectacular video known as “The Present of Life”. Antoni is certainly one of three winners in Canada and the one winner outdoors of Ontario/Quebec. The winners had been awarded prizes for his or her creativity and noteworthy assist in elevating consciousness for organ donation.
When requested why he needed to take part, Antoni’s response was “Though filmmaking is definitely a interest and fervour of mine, my major ambition in life is to enter the medical area as a health care provider. Consequently, after I discovered concerning the contest specializing in the medical area, I believed it will be a superb mixture of my pursuits in each movie and drugs. Initially I thought of making extra of an informational, documentary-type movie/brief video to focus extra on the scientific points (maybe interviewing an precise physician or two)—which might be extra appropriate given my pursuits in drugs— however because of timing, I ended up with the much less informational (and extra emotional) movie submitted.”
Ian Goodall-George, the Manitoba committee member, stated “His video is wonderful contemplating he has no private reference to organ donation and really highly effective which galvanized the judges.”
To view Antoni’s submission “The Present of Life”, please go to: https://youtu.be/RvE7CTnt0Uk
#SharetheShorts invitations submissions year-round with mentorship and as much as $30K in prizes out there for the successful submissions. The following submission deadline is June sixteenth, 2023. College students, academics, and guardians are invited to go to the #SharetheShorts playlist on the @GiveLifeUHN YouTube channel or e mail livingorgandonation@uhn.ca to study extra about how they’ll become involved within the competitors
