The 9th Annual YTV Achievement Awards

In 2008, we travel to Egypt to tell the story of heavy metal in a conservative Muslim country. We meet the kids in Cairo's tight knit underground music scene who are the film's main characters, including the sons of the country's foremost political dissidents and the Muslim World's first all-female metal band. Living under an oppressive regime, they're denied the basic right to free expression, and risk arrest just for playing their music... Then halfway through our story, a revolution begins, casting them, and us, into the unknown, opening new horizons, and presenting our main characters with a new set of life changing dilemmas.

Every day hundreds of men risk life and limb going down into the Buzhanska mine in the Ukraine to mine coal with rusty old tools from the Soviet era.

Six young Americans travel across the Middle East in the footsteps of the Arab Spring.

Ever run a marathon? How about 202 marathons? Consecutively in 8 1/2 months....across Canada - at the age of 25. Why would someone do that? And how is it physically possible? You'll have to watch Scott Cannata's The Run To Live to find out those answers and more about his epic cross-country journey that he did entirely foot. With his meager support team following close behind in a pick-up truck and a tattered old trailer. A roller coaster of emotions, 4 seasons of harsh Canadian weather, from East coast to West coast. 3 Gen-Y'ers and a husky dog traveled our great nation for one very great cause....

The process of making movie magic is explored in this 53-minute documentary. Though the production features instructive commentary by many industry professionals, the heart of 'Shot by Shot' is the captivating story of Alex, a student filmmaker at Boston's Emerson College who is working laboriously on his thesis project -- a short dramatic motion picture. As Alex and another student from Boston University race against time to finish their final projects, they are haunted by a sobering reality -- if they don't complete their films in time, they don't graduate.

What happens when traditionally generous and export-driven Sweden imposes steep tuition fees for non-Europeans students?