Cineclub News
It's our second week of Cineclub and our new members have been busy creating their first 'Four Shot Films'. A Four Shot film is a great way for pupils to learn how to use the camera and story well. They…
Great news, our last Cineclub film "Ctrl Z" has been shortlisted for entry into the Kids for Kids UK 2012 Film Competition in the 6-12 years Live Action Film Category. The judges said “We were really impressed this year with…
Great news, our Cineclub's films have been nominated in this year’s Cineclub Awards in the following categories: Jury Prize Primary – Ctrl Z Best Acting – Josh Noble-Layng (Ctrl Z) People’s Vote – The Lost Friend Congratulations to all the…
Cineclub Extra runs on Friday nights for ex-pupils and older members. We currently have members from 4 different school from 9 to 16 years old. This week we tried out a 'Four Shot Film' project. Each shot must be a…
Cineclub Awards 2012: The People's Vote Shortlist This year’s Cineclub have received their first award nomination for the People's Vote category at this year’s Cineclub Awards. This will be the 4th time we have been nominated over the past 4…
This year’s Cineclub have received their first award nomination for the People's Vote category at this year’s Cineclub Awards. This will be the 4th time we have been nominated over the past 4 years, please vote for us and hopefully…
Huge congratulation goes to last year’s Cineclub members whose films ‘The Door ‘and ‘Stay With Me’ have both received awards from The IAC British Amateur Film Competition 2012. ‘Stay With Me’ was awarded 4 Stars (the top awards is 5…
We are very proud to have been awarded two prizes at the 2011 Kids for Kids UK Film Festival. The Youth Jury voted: The Door as Best Live Action (6-12 years)…for skilfully creating an atmosphere of ‘creepy suspense’ and pulling…
Over the next month three of our films are travelling the world. Our Cineclub has been nominated for awards from Consett in the UK to Rio de Janerio, Brazil! Our horror film 'The Door' and the 1 minute version of our James…
Do your children have a passion for films and film making? The Hills Lower School has been running a successful international award winning film making club since 2008. To date the club has been only been open to year 4…
Exciting news, Mr Horsley and Miss Starr will soon be running 'Cineclub Extra' for all ex-Cineclub members or ex-pupils that never had the chance to be part of our previous Cineclub. Cineclub Extra will be different from our normal club…
Two of our films 'The Door' and the 1 minute version of 'Seven of Diamonds' have been shortlisted for awards at this year’s Kids for Kids Film Festival to be held at the end of October. Kids for Kids is…
School of the Dead was selected for screening at the Kids for Kids 1st Asia Film festival in Busan, Korea. It was a great honour to have been chosen as only 3 British films were picked to be shown. Sadly…
Our Cineclub is featured in the new issue of Pirnet Education magazine. You can read on online version of the publication here (we are on page 14).
The Hills Lower School cineclub has won a cineclub award today! We went to BFI Southbank in London to collect the Jury's Prize award for our film 'Stay With Me'. Before we arrived at the BFI Southbank we saw lots…
School of the Dead has been selected for screening at the KFK Asia Film festival taking place in Busan, Korea in August 2011
The nominees for the Cineclub Awards 2011 have been anounced and we are very proud that our Cineclub is represented in 4 categories. Peoples Vote: The Door Jury Prize: Stay With Me Best Teachers Film: Our School (promotional Video) Best…
The Nominations have been announced and we are very proud that The Hills Lower School is represented in 4 categories: Peoples Vote: The DoorJury Prize: Stay With MeTeachers Film: Our SchoolBest Actor: Grace Poutney (Seven of Diamonds) The Cineclub Awards…
This week we held auditions for our latest film. Because the running time of our films can't really be over four minutes we find it best to have a small cast. If our wonderful club members don't get picked as…
The Boys and Girls finally finished their editing, and I have put them all together here. If you watch them you can see all three films edited and a version edited by each Cineclub member.
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Because we are still waiting for the theme of this years film for Cineclub, we decided to set the team a task. This was to plan, write and film a story in 60 minutes, and as that would have been…
On the weekend of the 6th-7th November School of the Dead won its fourth, fith and sixth national film award at the Kids for Kids Film Festival. We won the: Professional Jury Prize for Best Live Action (6-12 years) The…
High 3:30 could be be used as a resource throughout Bedford Borough schools for Anti-Bullying. "I am hoping to offer the DVD as a resource to Bedford Borough schools for anti-bullying themed lessons and activities, and as an example of…
Our local newspaper 'Bedfordshire on Sunday' ran a great article in this weekends newspaper (19 Sep 2010) about our Cineclub and the awards the members have earnt from their hard work. Hills’ movie stars pile up the awardsBY HAZEL…
Congratulation to our 2008/2009 Cineclub members, you have done it again. School of the Dead has won its third national film award - Best Homage (Primary) at the 2010 Cineclub awards. We now have a really nice silver star to…
We feel very proud to have our first film 'Befriend' featured on the 'Highly Commended' section of the Cineclub official website. Cineclub wrote about our film: This enchanting story tells the tale of Sam, a young boy who's parents move…
We are so pleased to announce that School of the Dead has won its second award with the Best Key Stage 2 Mixed Media Award at the Tag Learning National Schools Film and Animation Awards held at the BFI in…
We were very proud and excited to discover that School of the Dead had been short-listed for Best Film at the 2009 at The Adders Youth Film Festival and Awards this year. So on Sunday 25th October at the Albans…
The local CineClub cluster will be entering both Befriend and School of the Dead into two national youth film festivals and awards later this year. With our visit to the CineClub awards in July, which already has Befriend shortlisted in…
School of the Dead was voted best film of the Luton CineClub cluster on Saturday 27th June. The film will now be hosted on the Luton CineClub cluster website as the prize for wining the vote. The standard of films…
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Empire Film Reviews
As part of our prize at the CineClub Awards, Empire Magazine produced reviews of our winning films.
You can read the review of 'School of the Dead' and the review of 'Stay with me'.
