YouTube, UN partner to empower female filmmakers worldwide

PanARMENIAN.Net - YouTube is launching a global production program and partnering with the United Nations in an effort to highlight and support women's voices across the platform, the Verge reports.

The video networks will invest in videos created by female filmmakers through the global YouTube Spaces program, which puts women in front of and behind the camera. And the year-long UN partnership will see a group of female creators advocating for gender equality as the first "change ambassadors" for the United Nations' Sustainable Development Action campaign.

Over the past few months, YouTube has invited a select group of women to serve as creative directors and mentor other female creators at its production facilities known as YouTube Spaces across the globe. Six YouTubers — Anna Akana (U.S.), Alexys Fleming (U.S.), Julia Veiga Faria (Brazil), Em Ford (UK), Nilam Farooq (Germany) and Kuma Miki (Japan) — were selected as creative directors in their respective YouTube Spaces and helped film over 50 videos including vides produced by Michelle Phan and GloZell that cover everything from original scripted content to women's issues to tributes to female leaders throughout history.