Film award win for trio

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DRAMATIC WIN: Isaac Strati, 17, left, Jerome Reil, 16, and David Buzas, 18, have won a national short-film award with their film, Elliott.

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Three budding film stars from Christchurch have outshone their opposition to win a national short-film award.

Isaac Strati, 17, Jerome Reil, 16, and David Buzas, 18, of Christchurch's Rudolf Steiner School, won best drama at the Cut national secondary schools' film competition.

The Year 12 students won a computer and editing software for the school.

Strati was also named best director, winning a first-year scholarship to study media arts for a year at the Waikato Institute of Technology, which runs the awards.

The judges said the students' short film about a teenager called Elliott who suffers severe agoraphobia showed a "very strong understanding of cinematic form".

Students from the school acted in the film and wrote the soundtrack.

The Opawa school set up a media studio in 2005 that allows students to study film-making.

The film also won the best short-film award at the Christchurch secondary schools' film festival.

It was also awarded the

most memorable moment award for an early-morning shot of an empty Cathedral Square.

Ben Childs, of Middleton Grange School, won best original score at the Cut awards for the school's film, called Bounce it, Bounce it, Bounce it.

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