MEET THE EMPLOYABLES - May 2008

This year's gala occasion marking the departure and celebrating the achievements of our completing students took place - as has become usual - in a lecture theatre; but one in which our first year students installed and operated a complete de-rig studio for the occasion! This year's event was graced by BAFTA award-winning MARILYN GAUNT as guest-of-honour; as an occasional lecturer at the National Film and Television School, Marilyn couldn’t be more aware of the sort of TV production training going on in colleges such as ours; but her BAFTA award winning ‘social documentary’ recently completed its final chapter after the transmission of the final part of her trilogy "Class of '62: from 16 to 60", this earned her some pretty amazing reviews from documentary makers throughout the industry. She's made over fifty documentaries and series as True Stories, First Tuesday, 40 Minutes, Present Imperfect,Cutting Edge,Under the Sun and Real Life. Her films include Julia’s Baby- Why Blame the Mother? - Great House Wives - The multi-award-winning Kelly and Her Sisters - Living on the Edge AND Lin and Ralph: A Love Story.

She is just about everything that most of our students aspire to becoming; but her message was one of individuality within an industry which might not make you "rich", but could certainly make you "en-riched".

 

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