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INTERNATIONAL YOUTH MEDIA SUMMIT seven voices in time
IT IS NOT BECAUSE THINGS ARE DIFFICULT THAT WE DO NOT DARE IT IS BECAUSE WE DO NOT DARE THAT THINGS ARE DIFFICULT

Vid

coordinator for the youth committee of the iyms
mr.vid rajin, SERBIA

Vid Rajin was born on 12. 02. 1987. in Belgrade, Serbia. He finished Philological Highschool (classical languages). He is currently studying at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade (illustration, animation and applied graphics). He is an animation coodinator of NGO Media Education Centre which teaches media literacy to young people. His animation Democracy Is To Choose brought him to the finals of the Democracy Video Challenge, organised by the US State Department. He made several short animated films, some of which were shown in festivals in Germany, Holland, USA, Sweden, Hungary and Serbia. He participated in the First, Third аnd Fourth International Youth Media Summit (as a diplomat in Los Angeles and as a Youth Committee member in Belgrade). He also participated three times in the Summer Camp on human rights in Italy, and worked as a young educator during Animate IT! On Western Balkan animation workshop. He made a flipbook which was used as advertising material for lightning company Buck during Light + Building fair in Frankfurt. His other hobbies are making comic books and writing. His comics were shown at the Belgrade Comic Fare in 2006. and 2008. He illustrated for the magazine Politikin Zabavnik. One of his stories was published in the Short Story Anthology of Bor library. His works were shown at the RTS exlibris exhibition, and the student exhibitions of Academy of Applied Arts. He was invited to Sweden in 2009. to hold several presentations and his first independent animation workshop. As one of the group leaders of a student exchange program, he took youngsters to Los Angeles for a month. He won best special effects award during Swedish Video Film Festival. In April 2010 he was invited to Dresden Film Festival Exchange Forum. He participarted in Daumenreise animation workshop by Maya Yonesho in May 2010. He is currently teaching animation at Media Education Centre.