FILM AWARDS CEREMONY

The pupils’ creativity and hard work was acknowledged and celebrated in an end of term awards ceremony.

Certificates and mini oscar statuettes were presented to pupils in categories that covered storytelling and range, such as ‘Best Comedy’, ‘Best Original Film’, ‘Best Documentary’ and ‘Rising Star’ through to specific film-making skills, such as ‘Best Director’ and ‘Producer of the Year’ and also sound and music in film, such as ‘Best Musical Score’ and ‘Best Song Performance’.

We were joined for the event by Jim Linthicum, head of Spiritual Care at GOSH, who spoke about the importance of storytelling at Christmastime and also showed us his very special Marvel advent calendar that contains a new marvel story for each day of advent.

Visit From Metro Film Critic

Pupils from the Mildred Creak Unit took part in a Q&A session with Metro Film Critic, Larushka Ivan-Zadeh as part of their work on film. They were able to find out who her favourite and least favourite interviewee was - Benedict Cumberbatch was apparently very charming and polite! - and also discuss with her what makes a good film and what makes a good film review.

When the group completed their own collaborative short film ‘Cut and Run’ we sent it to Larushka. She replied with an incredibly positive review of their work, which you can read over the page.

Cut and Run

Reviewed by Larushka Ivan- Zadeh

Critic at the Metro

15 December 2022

WOW! I am genuinely impressed. And I say this as someone who has served on the jury of numerous short film awards. I was hugely entertained and inspired by Cut And Run (great title) and I just watched it three times in a row - purely because I enjoyed it so much!

A huge amount of patient, painstaking work goes into creating any and every animated film. What I loved about Cut And Run was how it wears that efort with such lightness and assurance. It was ambitious and authoritative. Throughout the storytelling and what was at stake were clear. As a viewer you always knew where you were. The characterisation was distinctive - both the modelling and the voice work. The ensemble cast had coherent chemistry. The music - I'm assuming an original score - was expertly edited to the narration. The collage set design/ scenery was striking and efective with the photo backdrop of trees giving a depth of field and I don't even know how you did the animated real sea! Altogether a terrific group efort that was very well directed. It was both playful and professional.

I had to review the new Avatar movie, Avatar: The Way Of Water this week and I can honestly say that I far preferred Cut And Run.

During the school’s Film Week, pupils and staf participated in a wholeschool Makaton project, learning the signs to perform the well-known song We Don’t Talk About Bruno from Disney’s popular film Encanto. The final performance was then enjoyed at the end-ofterm celebration. Congratulations to all of those who participated.