Letter: Hollywood hype

Sir: Charles Harris is right (letter, 8 November). Hollywood hype is starving the rest of the film industry of oxygen.

On Sunday the Bafta Award for Best Children's Feature Film went, amid gasps of astonishment and mystification from the audience, to Paulie. None of the judges (of whom I was one) had ever heard of it either, until it appeared among a list of nine submissions (all American).

The jury of 12 was equally divided between children and adults. Paulie (awful title) beat competition that included Star Wars - The Phantom Menace, Rug Rats, Dr Doolittle, Babe In The City, Antz and A Bug's Life, this last by a mere whisker.

Will Paulie now be screened to allow children nationwide the chance to see what their peers have judged to be the pick of the season's crop?

We professionals might have got it wrong, but I doubt whether the kids have.

HELEN CRESSWELL

Newark, Nottinghamshire