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16 swindonlink.com • October 2010
Ex-Hreod pupil Sherylee wins place at national fi lm school

Twenty year old Sherylee Houssein, from Stratton St Margaret, is settling into life as a student at the National Film and Television School,
after beating stiff competition for places.
The Beaconsfi eld-based college “Our fi lm Icehouse was the start- Movies Awards 2006. ing – and was lucky enough to be
has spawned a mass of talent since ing point for my career. We were She also worked on the fi lm Rite accepted. Now I’ll just have to see
it began in 1971, including Nick all assigned jobs on the production of Passage which won the same where work takes me. It’s very
Park, of Wallace and Gromit fame. and, as I was the one who was most award in 2009. exciting and I’m looking forward
Sherylee, who has been working into music, I was handed a mixer, Sherylee is clear that a practical to meeting like-minded people
at Swindon Council’s digital media a microphone and a set of radio approach to her career will bring and discovering the doors the fi lm
studios Create during the last year, mics and asked to do the sound opportunities in the future. “I knew school can open.”
became passionate about fi lm eight which I loved. I didn’t want to go to university to Sherlyee follows in the footsteps
years ago when Create Studios “I found myself on set in some study fi lm and decided I could pick of David Yates, director of Harry
visited her school, Hreod Parkway. strange locations. Filmmaking up a lot more practical experience Potter movies, who also had a start
She said, “I was 12 and they were might look glamorous, but some- by working on fi lms as a volunteer at Create Studios’ forerunner, Swin-
asking for people interested in creat- times it’s defi nitely not.” and also on paid projects.” don’s Media Arts, before heading
ing an animation and this led me to Icehouse went on to win best “This summer I tried my luck for the National Film and Televi-
be enthralled by the moving image. thriller category at the First Light and applied to the National Film sion School.
and Television School to take part www.swindon.gov.uk/artsandcul-
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