Haringey pupils head for red carpet after film nomination
Five Year 1 pupils from Blanche Nevile School for Deaf Children in Haringey are preparing for a red-carpet moment after their first animated short was nominated at the Into Film Awards.
Iris, JJ, Leo, Liya and Skyler have been shortlisted in the Best Animation: 5-11 category for The Weather, a film made during Deaf Studios lessons after the children had been learning about the weather in class.
The ceremony is due to take place on Tuesday 16 June 2026 at the ODEON Luxe Cinema in Leicester Square, where the pupils will be among young filmmakers from across the UK whose work has been selected from hundreds of entries.
Five young filmmakers from Blanche Nevile
The nominated pupils are all in Year 1 at Blanche Nevile School for Deaf Children, a Haringey school with a specialist role in deaf education.
Their short film began with a classroom topic familiar to almost every child in Britain: the weather. The group turned that learning into an animated story about a girl experiencing the classic British pattern of “four seasons in a day”.
According to Haringey Council, the children had no previous filmmaking experience before the project. In their Deaf Studios lessons, they experimented with animation, sound and storytelling, building the film from an idea linked directly to what they had been studying.
The pupils also created the soundtrack themselves, using instruments and objects rather than relying on ready-made music. That detail gives the film a practical classroom feel: the children were not only drawing or animating a story, but also thinking about how weather could be heard, felt and represented on screen.
The Weather turns a school topic into a short film
The Weather stands out because it comes from a clear, age-appropriate idea. A child meets changing weather; the forecast shifts; the day refuses to stay still. For five- and six-year-old filmmakers, that is a strong route into narrative because it connects observation, memory and visual play.
Animation also gives young deaf pupils a way to lead with image, rhythm and expression. In early education, film work can support language, sequencing and collaboration without treating creativity as a separate subject from classroom learning.
For local families, the nomination places a Haringey school project in a national setting. It shows how a small classroom exercise can travel well beyond the school gates when pupils are given access to filmmaking tools and space to experiment.
The film has been made available to watch through the source notice, which also points readers to the wider Into Film Awards nominee list.
Into Film Awards shortlist puts Haringey on a national stage
The Into Film Awards are run by Into Film, a film education charity supported by the British Film Institute through National Lottery funding. The awards are sponsored by the UK film industry and are designed to showcase young people’s filmmaking across the country.
Entries this year came from across the United Kingdom, with nominated films ranging from comedies to documentaries and animation. The Haringey pupils are competing in an age category that covers some of the youngest entrants, making the nomination a notable moment for the school as well as for the children involved.
The awards have previously attracted well-known figures from the film industry, including Daniel Craig, Hugh Grant, Naomie Harris, Eddie Redmayne, Olivia Cooke, Simon Pegg and Ruth Wilson. For children making their first short film, the red-carpet setting will be a very different room from the classroom where the project began.
Red-carpet ceremony set for 16 June
Iris, JJ, Leo, Liya and Skyler are due to attend the Into Film Awards ceremony at ODEON Luxe Leicester Square on Tuesday 16 June 2026.
The winner of the Best Animation: 5-11 category will be announced at the event. Until then, The Weather remains part of the national shortlist, carrying a Haringey classroom project into one of London’s most recognisable cinema venues.
Source: Haringey Council
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