A BUNCH of lucky kids will be able to honestly describe themselves as film-makers by the end of this week.

The youngsters' names were randomly drawn from a host of entrants interested in participating in the first BIFF Kids Film Workshop.

As a result, Emily Collins, Elizabeth Watson, Andrew Edwards, Rowan Vickers, Justine Hamer, Brittany de Frias, Brian Gonzales, Claire Hirschberg, Christopher Dyer, Emily Dunne, Nicholas Rinehimer, Antwan Edwards and Vanessa James will spend this weekend making a short film under the guidance of Canadian film-makers Erik Goulet and Veronica Baril, Bermudian film-maker Lucinda Spurling and former film professor, Vicky Zabriskie.

The film will be shown twice during the BIFF Kids Film Festival, scheduled to run between October 16 and 17.

"It will screen in front of the French feature film HOP, about a son and his father who are illegal immigrants from Burundi living in Brussels, at 4 p.m. on Saturday, October 16 - and it will also screen in front of Arif Hossein ETV Dhaka, Quiero Ser and Stoffer's Moment on Sunday, October 17 at 2 p.m.," said a BIFF spokesperson. "Quiero Ser won the 2001 Academy Award for Best Short Film, while Arif Hossein is a powerful film about child labour in Bangladesh, and Stoffer's Moment is a documentary about a star teenage athlete who loses his sight due to a tragic accident with illegal firecrackers."

Tickets for BIFF Kids screenings are on sale today and tomorrow in the lobby of the Reid Street branch of Butterfield Bank between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tickets are $10.