Teeny Tiny Films win Royal Television Society Award
Teeny Tiny Films, a Cotherstone, Durham based social enterprise film production company, worked with pupils from Cotherstone Primary School to produce a film focusing on declining hill farming in the local rural community. The film scooped the Best Factual Programme (Non-Broadcast) Award at the Royal Television North East and Borders Awards ceremony.
The film, 'Teesdale Hill Farming Story', was shot and animated in the school and around Cotherstone village. Pupils from the school contributed to the Teeny Tiny Films production by creating stop-motion animations and interviewing local farmers and filming their activities such as sheep clipping and haymaking.
Teeny Tiny Films create films that focus on social, educational and environmental subjects and benefit local community groups, schools, publuc bodies and regional and national organisations.
'Teesdale Hill Farming Story' concentrates on the declining level of traditional hill farming in rural Teesdale. Sam Forsyth, director and founder of Teeny Tiny Films, is hopeful that the Award will act as a starting point for further work with the hill farming community.
Read more at The Northern Echo.