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The YMVC – Youth Music Video Competition has become an eagerly awaited part of each year’s First Cut! Youth Film Festival. Since 2016, this mentoring programme has facilitated the production of a remarkable and varied body of music videos by emerging filmmakers, aged 18 to 23, working with tracks by up-and-coming bands. Under the overall guidance of acclaimed director Brendan Canty and his company Feel Good Lost, the involvement of film and music professionals has ensured a consistently high standard of mentoring and industry engagement. But it is ultimately the raw talent of the filmmakers who participate that makes YMVC as exciting and dynamic a springboard as it has become. What follows as an overview of each year of YMVC with examples of the work produced and notes on the success stories that followed several of them…