Students use gorilla tactics in quest for film awards

A FILM about a pupil who turns a bullying teacher into a gorilla is one of two films, created and shot by children in West Cork, selected for a national awards ceremony.

The five-minute movies, the second of which focuses on a boy’s search for his lost childhood, were among nine submitted by seven schools throughout West Cork, as part of an initiative by the Department of Education to introduce film as a teaching aid.

In conjunction with the Film In Schools project (FIS), about 150 schoolchildren used state-of-the-art camera and sound equipment in the making of their films, and included special effects.