Success for three young filmmakers from The Walnuts School in Milton Keynes! Their six minute animation film, ‘Horror Land’, has been selected from 270 entries for screening at the prestigious Co-operative Young Film-Makers Festival 2007. The festival will take place at the National Media Museum in Bradford on 12th and 13th October 2007.
‘Horror Land’ - one of Living Archive’s highly successful young people's films - was funded by First Light Movies and the Co-operative Group Community Dividend Award. It is a spoof horror animation film made in 2006 by a group of three boys who were 14 years old at the time. The ideas, storyline, art work, animation and sound track were entirely their own work. The group were guided through stop motion animation techniques by professional filmmaker, Lara Pearson, and were supported by staff from The Walnuts School in Milton Keynes, a school for children and young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
The Walnut School are proudly arranging transport for their school-boy filmmakers, Reece, David and Bryan, to be guests of honour at the IMAX cinema at the National Media Museum for the showing of their film.
The young filmmakers will have the unforgettable experience of watching their film on a huge IMAX screen and feeling the reaction of the audience around them. Also they will have the unique opportunity to get one-to-one feedback on their film from film professionals
As well as the screening of their film, there will be many film and TV related workshops, events and master-classes to take advantage of including Make a Pop Video, Documentary Making with Channel 4, Animation and more. The Museum itself is an amazing venue with seven floors of fun, interactive and educational exhibits, plus the 300-seater cinema with the gigantic IMAX screen.
Forest’, another Living Archive film made in 2005 by pupils from Queen Eleanor School, will be screened at the Sun Child International Film Festival in Armenia on 6th - 10th October 2007.‘Forest’ reflects the young people’s feelings about the power of nature after the tsunami in December 2004.
Living Archive's Film Productions provides opportunities in Milton Keynes for young people to work alongside professional filmmakers and get involved with every aspect of filmmaking from forming the idea and the script to directing and editing.
First Light Movies provides funding and expertise to help 5 to 18 year olds, from varying backgrounds throughout the UK, to create their own films using National Lottery money through UK Film Council funding.
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