Actor and filmmaker Denzel Whitaker is set to join this year’s International Youth Media Summit as an honorary ambassador. The annual summit is committed to inspiring young people around the world to explore using film and other forms of media to address global issues. Whitaker will act as a celebrity spokesperson for the summit ahead of the 19th event, which will be held in Zanzibar, Tanzania. It’ll be the first time the event is on the African continent. Selected delegates will participate in a film production and training led by media experts and those in the industry. There will be seven film production teams who will create films that tackle a different social issue: discrimination, environment, health, poverty, violence, women’s rights, and youth empowerment. “I am incredibly excited and honored to be appointed as an ambassador for IYMS,” Whitaker said in a statement. “It has always been a mission statement of mine to help give access and drop ‘gems of wisdom’ upon our future...