Telford schoolboys win top award for comedy film

A black and white Benny Hill-style film has scooped a top award for three schoolboys.

Nathan Mills, Steven Davies and Philip Penning, who are now in year six at Wrekin View Primary School in Wellington, won the comedy category in the Oomph! Film Festival against schools from across the West Midlands with their film The Chase.

IT co-ordinator Helen Lambie said: "We had two films short-listed. Three year five boys, who are now in year six, made a black and white silent movie with Benny Hill type music over it, and that won the comedy category."

Some of the school's youngest pupils were also runners-up in the documentary section with a film about the Clifton cinema in Wellington.

Mrs Lambie said: "It started as a project about the Dunelm building, which used to be a cinema, and some of the year one and two children made a documentary about it.

"They finished runner-up in their category, which a secondary school won."

The films entered for the Oomph! competition were the winners of Wrekin View's own Lights, Camera, Action competition last summer which saw all the school's pupils involved in making films using a variety of technologies.

They enjoyed a red-carpet Oscar-style ceremony in a marquee on the school field, and the winning films from the six categories were forwarded to the Oomph! judges.

Watch the boy's winning entry, The Chase, here: