Rosedale's budding film stars graced the screen at the inaugural Hero's Journey Film Presentation evening held at Rosedale State School recently.

Rosedale is a community approximately 60 kilometres north of Bundaberg, and over 80 of its residents turned out to support and the celebrate the efforts of students.

Rosedale State School's "Best Film" award recipients (left to right) Tayman Illet, Breea Mai, Lauren Green, Alexandra Morgan and Angela McDade

The evening was the culmination of four days hard work put in by Rosedale State School students with the help of Annette Thompson and Melissa Nunn from CQUniversity's Widening Participation team.

Students worked in groups to write, film, and edit their screenplays, the final two days of their project allowing them to travel to CQUniversity Bundaberg to film.

Students were able to use a range of technologies to put together their films, and it was a great opportunity for students to experience first-hand what a university looks and feels like.

"Projects like these are part of an overall strategy by the Queensland Higher Education Working Party to ensure that schools in low socio-economic areas across the state are offered programs to raise aspirations towards higher education" said Stacey Wallace, Widening Participation Program Manager at CQUniversity.

CQUniversity's Widening Participation team offer approximately 70 programs to schools in the Bundaberg, Rockhampton, Mackay and Central West regions.