A Llanidloes girl has been awarded a top national film prize for her productions starring her and her sister.
Agnieszka Kolacznska, 11, from Llidiartywaen, near Llanidloes, has been awarded the "Ones to Watch" Award at the National Youth Film Festival in London. She received the award from ITV's Downton Abbey actor, Jim Carter, at a ceremony in Leicester Square.
Agnieszka's documentaries, entitled My Little Sister - Who Happens to Have Downs Syndrome - have reached worldwide audiences totalling more than 200,000. She even has her own website http://www.agnieszkaproductions.me.uk.
It's not the first time Agnieszka has won an award. She won the Welsh finals of an international spelling competiton. She was seventh in the UK in the World Education Games and 31st in the world.
She has been filming since she was eight-years-old.
She said on her blog: "Magdalena and me were very excited throughout the whole ceremony, but I was also very nervous! It was incredible viewing my film on the big cinema screen.
"When my name was called out as the winner of my category I was so overwhelmed with excitement! I was given the Award for the 11-15 category. I felt it was pretty neat to have won this, being self-taught and working on my own on every aspect of my films with no funding or support from any film school or film teachers or organisations."
