Young filmmakers from Bristol schools are preparing to showcase the first Somali film made in England.

A team of students from The City Academy and Whitehall Primary School worked with film professionals to script, produce and direct the horror film Dhag Dheer, a revamp of an old Somali folk tale.

The 10-minute film will be premiered at Bristol's Watershed.

The academy is hoping the film will win awards when it is entered in several national and international youth film festivals.

Dhag Dheer is a female character who features in many traditional Somali stories as a cannibal witch with a gigantic ear who enjoys feasting on her victims.

In the film adapted by the students, a frustrated wife, Qutubai, and her son Khalif are driven out of their home by a scheming second wife favoured by Qutubai's husband, Mustafa. When they wander into Dhag Dheer's house, they have no idea what awaits them.

Pupils from Whitehall Primary School were also involved in the production and as actors.

Six-year-old Aden Osman, from Bannerman Road School, was chosen to star in the film alongside professional adult actors.

The film was mainly shot at Blaise Castle in Henbury using the woods and the fairytale-like woodman's cottage as a witch's hut.