Pupils scoop an ‘Oscar’

Budding Michael Moores from Middleton scooped one of the three awards awards up for grabs at the Greater Manchester Schools Film Festival.

Pupils from Bowlee Park Community School won the best won the best documentary award.

The group were presented with a trophy and a digital video camera for their school.

The annual competition is run by Oldham’s City Learning Centre in Hollinwood and manager Dave Barter said: “We provide a training course for teachers and workshops for pupils to get them going with film making. Then we give then a brief to produce a film.”

Entries from 14 schools were premiered at The Printworks in Manchester and the judging panel included a BBC representative and a professional film maker.

Mr Barter added: “The pupils get to see their film on a real cinema screen with real cinema sound.

“They are producing it for a real audience rather than to watch it on a computer screen.

“The films are just getting better and better every year.”