The group of 11- to 15-year-olds from Northease Manor School near Lewes in southeast England are among 400 young people to benefit from the 100,000 allocated to 29 short-film projects.
Their 4,000 will help to make a film about an intrepid bunch of young people with dyslexia who must decipher a message to solve the mystery of a skeleton.
Other film projects to gain grants include a version of Romeo and Juliet set among rival break-dancing gangs devised by young people at the MacRoberts Arts Centre in Stirling, and a film about a character with psychic powers to be made by children in care from Motherwell.
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