Four Renwick School pupils and teachers will experience a red carpet affair in Auckland tonight after two of their films were placed in the top 20 entries in a national competition.
The short films were among the top in The Outlook for Someday 2011 film competition which encourages entrants to have their say about sustainability and environmental issues.
All 20 winning films will be screened at the Aotea Centre and prizes will be awarded to each group, with special awards presented by actress Robyn Malcolm.
Teachers Monique Stevenson and Michelle Moran and pupils Jakob MacGibbon, 6, and Jono Poswillo, 9, will be winging their way to Auckland.
Jono said he was excited about the trip and the red carpet because he had never been to Auckland before. "I've been counting down the days."
Jono directed the year 3 and 4 group's movie The Renewables and also had a hand in the year 1 and 2 film The Greedy Little Huhu Grub.
He liked filmmaking because he got to use the computers and learn about the movie making software.
Miss Stevenson entered the competition with the year 1 and 2 group for the first time and was impressed and surprised to make the top 20 in an open competition for people under 24.
It was motivation to keep making movies with the pupils, she said. Most of the group's five-minute film about a huhu grub which eats everything around it was shot in Havelock.
Making the movie was a good learning experience for the pupils as well as her and allowed them to stretch their creativity, she said.
Fellow teacher Miss Moran, who entered with the year 3 and 4 group, had encouraged Miss Stevenson to enter because she knew she was interested in learning how to make movies.
The school is no stranger to getting accolades for their movie making.
Room 5 also made the top 20 in the Outlook for Someday competition last year.
TVNZ7 will broadcast the movies from Monday, December 12, to Friday, December 16, at 6.30pm and each programme will be repeated at 12.30pm the following day.
You can also watch all the movies at www.theoutlookforsomeday.net.
Watch Renwick film The Renewables
Watch Renwick film The Greedy Little Huhu Bug
- The Marlborough Express
SIMON WONG
Environmentally friendly: Renwick School teachers and pupils, from left, Michelle Moran, Monique Stevenson, Ollie Pavey, 9, Jakob MacGibbon, 6, Jono Poswillo, 9, and Kate Strang, 7. Two groups from the school made the top 20 in a national sustainability film competition
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