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Lights - camera - action for budding Spielbergs

Publication date: Monday 14 June 2010

Budding young filmmakers are taking part in a competition to capture the story of Haringey's new school - Heartlands High School - with the top films getting a showing at a big local cinema.

Their brief is to create a short story telling the history of the area where the school is being built - including interviewing people building the school and working in it when open this September.

The best films will be shown at Wood Green's Cineworld Cinema. Prize winners will also enjoy a day at a multimedia production company - including a tour and editing session to produce a polished final DVD and cover design. DVDs of the winning entry will then be produced for distribution in the borough.

The competition is open to Year 5 and 6 students from Haringey's primary schools.

Heartlands High School is a key part of Haringey Council's Building Schools for the Future programme, and is bringing £214m worth of improvements to the borough's secondary school's 12,000 students, and teachers.

Construction of Heartlands High School, Wood Green is well underway and the school will be a mixed comprehensive school with specialisms in visual arts and media.

Simon Garrill, headteacher of Heartlands High School, said:

"We are delighted to work with these young people and contractors Wilmott Dixon to create this exciting project. The films that students at Campsbourne and other primary schools produce should be very exciting and we are looking forward to seeing the finished product."

Cllr Lorna Reith, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, said:

"The film competition is an ideal way of highlighting Heartlands High School's specialism in visual arts and media. It also highlights the school's important place in the local community - with its strong artistic heritage."

Willmott Dixon, the building contractors for the new school and Rethinking Communications, a creative media agency are working with staff from the school and Haringey Council to support the competition.

Schools keen to take part in the filming competition, should contact heather.denny@heartlands.haringey.sch.uk on 020 8489 4545.

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