The annual Youth Cinema Network (YCN) Award recognises excellence in film made by young people. Established in 2016 as a single award, it is now presented to the best films in four groups:
* age 0 – 14 * age 15 – 19 * age 20 – 27 and workshop films.
YCN festivals nominate one film for each group, YCN members vote per age group and the films with greatest number of votes in each age category are declared winners.
Every year the YCN awards are presented at a different festival. Wicked Wales Film festival, UK (2016), the REC, Germany (2017), Nextfilmfestival, Denmark (2018), Enimation, Slovenia & Up and Coming, Germany (2019)Camera Zizanio, Greece (2020)
Screening online via FreshFilm.ie