Silver screen … Footscray City College student and Williamstown
By Charlene Gatt
Oh yeah, and he’s only 12 years old.
Year 7 Footscray City College student Rory Young has a promising film-making career ahead of him if his recent achievements are anything to go by.
The Williamstown resident recently took out the Best Student Film (Secondary) for his one-minute stop motion film Biodiversity at the SCINEMA awards.
SCINEMA is an internationally competitive festival of science films. Winners this year came from all over Australia as well as the UK, Spain, Portugal, Canada and the Netherlands.
“It’s basically about this eco-system and this guts pulls up with a machine and it sucks the life out of everything, and it makes everything into black and white,” Rory said.
The film took him three weeks to set up, two hours to film and another week to edit.
Rory’s no stranger to the awards scene, having won ACMI’s Screen It award for his animation, Australian Identity, in 2008 and being a national finalist last year in the same awards.
He comes from a long line of artistic relatives – his mother is an actress, his father a street performer, his sister a photographer and his aunt a writer.
Rory said he had been heavily involved in film-making in the past two-and-a-half years.
“It started when my mum bought a Mac and I used the webcam and just made pictures and went from there,” he said.
“I’ve always wanted to involved in animation because I used to watch the Wallace and Gromit episodes and I wanted to do that.”
