A group of Melbourne primary school students has taken top honours at Little Big Shots –
Melbourne’s International Film Festival for Kids – with their claymation about how some children
affected by the Black Saturday bushfires were able to turn a negative situation into a positive one.
The film, Anna’s Doll, was made in 2009 by grade five and six students at Yarraville West Primary
School. They developed their script by cutting out newspaper clippings and pictures, raising money
and writing songs and stories about the bushfires. On May 2, 2010, it was judged the best Australian child-made film in the 2010 Little Big Shots program by the festival’s official 10-member children’s jury.
