Young film-makers from Pembrokeshire have scooped two major awards in the recent Zoom Cymru International Young People's Film Awards.

Pupils from Greenhill and Lamphey schools won two of the 10 categories, and three other pupils from Pembrokeshire were shortlisted for their films.

Harry Whitehurst and Theo Morgan-Summers from Greenhill School won the Best Film (age eight-13) category with 'Fingers Crossed', a split-screen film about good and bad luck. Judges praised the 'excellent storytelling' and said the film was of an exceptionally high standard.

Year 5 at Lamphey School won the Best Performance category with their soap opera themed 'Tudor Street' taking viewers on a journey through Henry VIII's first four wives.  The judges thoroughly enjoyed the film and praised the humour and the performances of all pupils.

Ben Walton, of Sir Thomas Picton School, was shortlisted in the Best Film 14-25 category for his film 'Engaged' about a recently engaged woman who feels she is being watched.

Danny Tose from Ysgol y Preseli was shortlisted for the Best Animation category with her film 'Woody Stump', a humorous film about how a mouse avoids being eaten by a buzzard.

And her sister, Micky Tose, also a pupil at Ysgol y Preseli, was shortlisted for Best Film in the 14-25 category with the horror film 'Werecat Shadow', loosely based on horror movies from the 1970s.

Duncan Whitehurst, advisory teacher and film festival director, said: "It's encouraging to see so many young film-makers from Pembrokeshire making an impact at a national event like the Zoom Cymru International Young People's Film Awards.

"The judges were particularly impressed by the high technical standard of entries from the county, an achievement made all the more notable by the fact that the majority of the films were made by students in their spare time, independently of school.

"For the last seven years the education service has been running the Pembrokeshire Schools Film and Animation Festival to showcase work produced by the county's talented young film makers and run workshops to develop film and animation skills. The winners at this year's Zoom Awards started out by screening their work at our local event."

The closing date for entries for this year's festival is June 1.

If schools, or independent young film-makers, would like to enter a film or animation for this year's festival all the information can be found at http://www.pembrokeshirefilm.org">www.pembrokeshirefilm.org