A TALENTED young film maker from Ovington will find out on Tuesday whether her documentary has won a national award.

Prudhoe High School teenager, Amy Jobe, who the Courant featured in January, directed a short film, Still Life, about what had become of the people in Tish Murtha’s photographs of Elswick in the 1970s and 80s.

Made in conjunction with the Northern Stars Documentary Academy at the Tyneside Cinema, it was put forward for a prestigious ‘Into Film’ award under the Best Documentary of the Year category. Amy is nominated alongside her fellow young film makers, who also worked on Still Life – Rebecca Burgess, Freya Tarn Chapman and Rowan Hodgson.

The Into Film Awards 2018 will take place at the British Film Institute on London’s Southbank, where the winners will be announced at a star-studded red-carpet ceremony hosted by TV and radio presenter Gemma Cairney.

The awards are widely considered to be the ultimate place to showcase young film-making talent, with categories designed to highlight the large pool of young creatives in the UK.

Amy’s film was selected from hundreds of short films from throughout the UK.

An ‘Into Film’ spokesman said: “We’ve been absolutely bowled over by the quality of the submissions.”

Last year’s ceremony saw Daniel Craig, Eddie Redmayne and Amma Asante all in attendance so it should be an exciting evening.

Amy was first introduced to the work of Tish Murtha by her mum, Tara, who grew up in Elswick. Tara’s parents, Amy’s grandparents, still live there.

“My mum grew up in the area and we found Tish’s pictures on a local history website she follows,” said Amy, 17. “It was the first ever visual guide of what mum’s life was like then.”