A STAR-STUDDED judging panel including Titanic star Kate Winslet and British movie director Sir Alan Parker cast their expert eyes over a First Light Movies funded film Darkness Visible made by young people from Buckinghamshire.
On Tuesday 27th February 2007 Darkness Visible, made by young people aged between 15 and 17 working with Living Archive in Milton Keynes, won the Best Documentary category of the First Light Movies Awards 2007 - the UK's very own Mini Oscars®. You can see a report on More4 News website about the young filmmakers from Milton Keynes and Leighton Buzzard receiving their award or you can follow the link to AskMK TV for their report on this film.
Darkness Visible is a frank and up-front documentary about mental health which explores issues around the stereotyping and labeling of people who have mental health problems. The young people involved with the film were reached through and supported Milton Keynes Child & Adolescent Mental Health service and were given guidance by professional filmmaker, Chris Bradley. The film was made as a result of approximately £6,000 of National Lottery funding through a First Light Movies Studio Award and a grant from Awards for All of £4,900.
Other members of this year's judging team included Hollywood actress Minnie Driver, Stormbreaker star Alex Pettyfer, Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry and comedienne Catherine Tate.
Winners were announced at the red-carpet event hosted by Alex Zane - presenter of Channel Four's Popworld - at the Odeon West End, London, on Tuesday 27 February 2007.
Shaun Woodward MP, Minister for Creative Industries & Tourism and a member of the First Light judging panel, said about this moving and powerful documentary: "It was very well crafted and put together very professionally".
Darkness Visible is one of three Living Archive productions that will be screened as part of the OXDOX:MK Film Festival 2007 at Cineworld in Xscape.
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