Young Filmmaker Competition National Final, 2024

The National Junior category winner is Seren Frost Davies, from The Nicholas Hawksmoor Primary School, sponsored by Towcester Rotary, Northamptonshire. Seren had the idea of using stop motion animation for her short film.

For Seren’s submission, it was horrible weather outside that inspired her to get to work inside, during a wet and windy half term.

“The river in Towcester burst its banks next to our house.” Seren explains. “We went for a walk and were talking about the river, I said ‘imagine if it washed away the bridge, what would we do?’”

“My Mum said, ‘it would be rebuilt’. This is where my inspiration came from.”

“The bridge is washed away and rebuilt by friends. It shows that friendship is also a bridge which can be rebuilt too.”

Judge Ric was a huge fan of Seren’s use of sound, with clear and emotive dialogue and a great choice of music.

Congratulations to Seren from all of us in District 1070!