A star-studded judging panel is to cast its eye over a film made by students from Teignbridge after their mini-movie was nominated for the best screenplay category at the First Light Movies Awards. Titanic star Kate Winslet and British movie director Sir Alan Parker are among judges who will look at First Light Movies-funded films, including local nominee Street Rat. The film was made by a group of 15 students, aged between six and 18, from Ipplepen Primary School and Coombehead College, Newton Abbot. Street Rat is a live action drama, featuring animation, focusing on a young girl's experience of living on the streets with her baby brother. The film was made using approximately £7,700 of National Lottery funding through a First Light Movies Studio Award. It will compete against other mini movies from across the UK and will all be rated by the First Light Movies Awards judging panel. Other members of this year's judging team include Hollywood actress Minnie Driver, Stormbreaker star Alex Pettyfer, Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry and comedienne Catherine Tate. Winners will be announced at a red-carpet event hosted by Alexa Chung and Alex Zane – presenters of Channel Four's Popworld – at the Odeon West End, London, on February 27. Students who have been involved in making the film are excited about the nomination and award ceremony. 'We are all very pleased,' said Rae Hoole, community media arts co-ordinator at Coombeshead College. 'We'll be taking all the students who were part of making the film to the ceremony, and the day before two of the students will go to an event and meet Gordon Brown. 'The morning before the ceremony there will be a press event in the Sound Café in Leicester Square.' First Light Movies provides funding and expertise to help five to 18-year-olds, throughout the UK from varying backgrounds, create their own films using National Lottery money through UK Film Council-funding. Through First Light Movies' grants, young people are given the opportunity to work alongside professional filmmakers and are involved with every aspect of filmmaking, from forming the idea and the script to directing and editing. First Light Movies' chief executive Pip Eldridge says: 'We're amazed by the quality of this year's First Light Movies Awards nominees. 'They prove that the next generation of UK filmmakers is thriving.'