TWO film-making friends with a budget of just £7 have become an internet sensation.

Olivia, Explorer, the latest film project by Francesca Sophia, 19, and Hayley Stuart, 20, has chalked up more than a million hits and scores of rave reviews after being picked to appear on YouTube's global website.

The short film - which stars Francesca's seven-year-old niece, Olivia - follows the adventures of a girl who gets left behind when her family go on holiday to Wales.

It attracted more than 100,000 views within 24 hours of going online in Britain and the pair were contacted by YouTube's editors to congratulate them on one of the website's most popular videos yet.

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