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2015 Winner Rosa Fisher discusses all things DepicT! and reveals her top tips for this year’s filmmakers

Posted on Thu 12 May 2016

With the Mon 4 July deadline for entries to this year’s DepicT! – Watershed’s super short film competition – beginning to loom on the cinematic horizon, we decided to catch up with director Rosa Fisher, one of last year’s DepicT! winners, to get her insights into what it takes to be successful DepicT! filmmaker.

David Bowie in Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence - part of Cinema Rediscovered

Cinema Rediscovered - Great films back on big screens

Posted on Wed 27 April 2016

Watershed and partners South West Silents and 20th Century Flicks invite you to join in the inaugural Cinema Rediscovered (Thu 28 - Sun 31 July 2016), a new major international archive film event that will celebrate cinema-going, giving audiences an opportunity to discover - or indeed re-discover - new digital restorations, film print rarities of early cinema, and contemporary classics on the big screen.

Image © Delia Spatareanu for Motley Collective

Watershed’s new Food Residency in partnership with At-Bristol

Posted on Tue 19 April 2016

Artist Sabrina Shirazi has just been announced as winner of Watershed’s first ever Food Residency in partnership with At-Bristol. Sabrina will develop OPUS, a new performance event that will unite sound, image and taste in a delicious fusion of music, performance and – of course – food.

Son of Saul

Son of Saul: Movement, Meaning and Morality

Posted on Thu 14 April 2016

The blistering Oscar®-winning Holocaust drama Son of Saul opens at the end of the month. Our Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove saw it in Cannes last year, and here writes a bit more about the film, and the morality of the choices inherent in making films that portray human atrocities.

Gill Roberts

Our 2015 prize draw winner hosts their own private screening

Posted on Wed 16 March 2016

Our #GivingTuesday prize winner, Gill Roberts, invited 100 of her friends and family to join her for a private screening of a film of her choice here at Watershed – the groundbreaking 1954 musical Carmen Jones.

Photograph: Dele Adeyemo

Live from Lagos...

Posted on Tue 15 March 2016

The Watershed and Playable City team are currently in Lagos, Nigeria, for a ten day sprint that brings together a group of brilliant creative practitioners from Lagos and the UK to exchange ideas and develop new works that respond to the theme of the Playable City. Catch their updates here...

Goodnight Mommy and The Witch

Horror is far from dead

Posted on Fri 4 March 2016

You think you know horror? Two new films from debut directors are released this month – Goodnight Mommy and The Witch – are continuing to defy the conventions of the genre, going way beyond straightforward shocks to deliver visceral, experimental (and proudly independent) scares.

Filmic 2016

Posted on Tue 1 March 2016

Our annual celebration of all things ‘Filmic’ returns with gigs and screenings that highlight the symbiotic relationship between music and the moving image. This is not simply in the ways in which they are used together, but also how each one can inspire the other. This is music for the movie in your mind, or the soundtrack in your head. This year we focus largely on ideas of technology in sound and vision.

Main Award Winner 2015 - Hand Maid by Karim Souissi (Photo Jon Craig)

Ready, steady, DepicT! - 2016 submissions now open

Posted on Mon 29 Feb 2016

We are back for our 20th year of DepicT!, our ultra short film competition that asks filmmakers from around the world to create an original short film under 90 seconds long.

Watershed and Partners awarded match funding for RAIN

Posted on Wed 24 Feb 2016

We are thrilled that Arts Council England has just announced that we have been successful in applying to the Creative Local Growth Fund. Watershed will receive £500,000 to work with the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership and a consortium of leading arts and cultural organisations - UWE, Spike Island, Knowle West Media Centre and The Guild Bath to develop the Regional Arts Incubation Network (RAIN).

Our January Deaf Conversations About Cinema event

Sign of the Times: working with and for our Deaf and hard of hearing customers and audiences

Posted on Tue 23 Feb 2016

Here at Watershed we want to be as welcoming, inclusive and accessible as we can for everyone: for all of our customers, audiences, staff and visitors. We have been making some really positive changes recently for Deaf and hard of hearing people, proving that co-production, creativity, innovation and a little bit of practice can encourage diversity and increase participation.