2023 participants

Florence Grieve is a Bristol based creative with a passion for accessible cinema. She has a particular interest in authentic representation of disabled lives, moving away from the trope of disability as inspiration or pity. In 2022, she was a pre-selector for Depict and was a volunteer programmer for the Queer Joy screening as part of the Queer Vision film festival. When she’s not at the cinema, she is writing and has been published in Mslexia, featured as an Acumen Young Poet and on BBC Upload.  

Delroy Hibbert is the Managing Director of Freestyle Bristol CIC, an organisation that supports young creatives in Bristol. His organisation recently promoted a film event, The 4 Pillars, that celebrated 50 years of hip hop culture and is keen to explore events like this more. Working with young people, including film makers, has also inspired a desire for his organisation to showcase locally produced film by young filmmakers and to work with them to produce film in the future.

Amelia Watts recently graduated from the University of Exeter with a PhD in Film and has worked and volunteered for several film festivals. Most recently, she worked as the Events and Festival Manager for Bristol-based conservation charity, Wildscreen, on their first hybrid festival in 2022 and the inaugural Wildscreen Festival Nairobi 2023. Amelia is passionate about working in film exhibition and is currently working as an Associate Lecturer at UWE. Being part of the Beyond Boundaries 360 scheme will be an invaluable step towards fulfilling her dream of starting her own film festival.   

Harriet Worsey is a Film graduate and cinephile. She recently moved to Bristol and strongly believes that screen representation is extremely important and one day, hopes to contribute to the celebration of film culture across the South West. 

Sarah Garland De Carvalho is a British Brazilian Artist and Cinephile based in Bristol. Sarah explores film as a visual art, creating her own short films which contemplate place and belonging. Their focus is on showcasing Brazilian and Latinx film to wider audiences.  Sarah is looking forward to meeting like-minded people and growing their network while having the guidance to actualise their ideas. They aspire to gain knowledge and experience to help them continue to build their place in the industry.

Sal Creber is a trans, autistic person with a long-standing passion (obsession) for film and cinema. Their one true love is horror, with a particular adoration of folk horror. They attended Bath Spa University as a Film and Screen Studies undergraduate, after completing a diploma in Creative Media Production at The Henley College. They have spent the last few years attending Frightfest in London in an attempt to refine and widen their knowledge of the horror genre and daydreaming about the perfect accessible queer and trans horror festival that they one day hope to create.  

Hannah Ali Khan is a script writer with an interest in stage, screen, and audio. Moving to Bristol last year for an MA in Drama Writing at BOVTS and being surrounded by film enthusiasts reignited her teenage love for film, and over the year she spent many evenings visiting the Watershed and watching movies at home. She is eager to learn about and enter the world of film curation and production, bringing her theatre and arts background to the programme. 

Nathan Hardie is a mixed-race, working-class arts critic born and raised in Bristol. From studying Mathematics at Plymouth, he pivoted careers to writing so he could develop his passion for cinema. With articles published on his blog HardieWrites, BFI Film Academy South West and Freestyle Bristol, he frequently covers local screenings and film festivals – hoping to programme events of his own.

Patrycja Loranc is experimental filmmaker, artist, and PhD researcher at University of Plymouth, interested in psyche-revealing potential of film. Patrycja is a co-founder of Alternative Night of Experimental Film and is interested in creating inclusive events that bring together perspectives on convergence of film and perception, exploring how time-based media allow to communicate sensory realms and altered states, in the framework of neurodiversity.  

Stef Graham is a performer and film marketer currently based in Weston-super-Mare. They have 8 years experience working in film exhibition, working their way from General Assistant at Everyman Cinema in London to now working as a Communications Coordinator at Watershed in Bristol. They hope to bring their love of independent and art-house cinema closer to their new home in Weston. 

Kate Cannon is a recent law graduate from the University of Bristol who has had operational roles within cinemas dating back the last 10 years. As someone who regularly experiences the emotional impact felt by audiences, she is very interested in the intersection between the arts and education from the perspective of rights-based issues within the law. 

Monica Wat is a multidisciplinary creative from Hong Kong. She is the founder and co-producer of arts festival MOON FEST which celebrates East and South East Asian creatives in the UK with short film screenings, live performances, art and food. The festival’s production identity, Made on the Moon, has also co-hosted a preview screening of Past Lives with Watershed. Monica has starred in, produced and directed short films and music videos, including Assimilation which was part of the British Film Institute’s SCENE. She is also a freelancer in film exhibition, having been the pre-selector of the Encounters Film Festival, Depict Short competition and assisted the outreach of Cinema Rediscovered. She is also a curator, most recently as part of the Independent Cinema Office’s Inclusion and Diversity Screening Days. She has a keen interest in furthering her creative career in the music, film and literary sectors including and beyond creation and curation.

2021 participants

Dan Guthrie is an artist, researcher, writer and programmer whose work often explores facets of Black Britishness, with an interest in examining how they manifest themselves in rural areas. He currently lives and works in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Website  

Anne-Marie Dames is a Graphic Designer based in Bournemouth. Having produced a few short films in her career, she curated an online film festival in 2020 which showcased student-made films from the local area. Instagram / Facebook 

Clare Kingswell is a passionate film lover, programmer, critic, and curator with a strong interest in the representation of gender in cinema. She is dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusivity on and off the screen and over the last five years she has curated several successful film programs and spoken extensively on the topic of women in film. She is dedicated to amplifying the voices of underrepresented groups in cinema and promoting diversity and inclusivity, both through her website www.missenscene.co.uk and when contributing to the FilmBath Festival Programme. Website / Instagram / Twitter

Emmeline Rodman is a Bristol based producer who currently works in the charity and education sectors. She is an experienced events manager and lectures in events management and design. She is proudly neurodiverse, diagnosed with ADHD and Dyslexia. Science fiction films provide her with a place of solace from these conditions. Website 

John Sealy “I lecture in film, I make film, I sleep film. I am the Director of Fabian’s Film and we are all about sharing and collaboration. My fave film is Jean Cocteau’s ‘Orphee’, my current fave is ‘The Green Knight.” Website 

Malaika Kegode is a writer, performer and producer based in Bristol. She has worked with a number of organisations including Bristol Old Vic, Encounters Film Festival, Elstree Studios and the BBC. Her favourite film is Cabaret (1972). Website

Oona Chanfi is an actor, filmmaker and photographer. She has recently created a series of short films called Roots which explores identity and multiculturalism as a young person of colour in Bristol. Representation is something Oona is extremely passionate about and through her work wants to focus on people sharing their own personal stories and experiences through conversations. 

Paolo Russo is an Italian-born film lover, freelancer animator, emerging film critic, based in Bristol. After graduating with a BA in Animation and MA in Contemporary Film Culture, he worked as an animator for numerous projects including working with TED and the V&A museum. His favourite film is Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Instagram 

Trace Mulzac is founder of DET Entertainment – started because out of love for the community. DET Entertainment are passionate about keeping communities together and support this by holding events throughout the year promoting community cohesion. Facebook / YouTube / Instagram / Volunteer 

Valentina Huxley is a 24-year-old creative based in Bristol. They specialise in colourful illustrations and run a poetry event called Sonder Spoken Word. Recent films she has enjoyed were Keyboard Fantasies and Zama. Website / Instagram  

Zoe Rasbash is a researcher and writer on culture and the climate emergency currently based at Watershed. In 2020 she co-founded Lilith, a DIY digital archive platforming the brilliant diversity of global women and non-binary nature filmmakers. 

2020 participants

Lorena Pino Montillais a Journalist and film promoter from Caracas, Venezuela. Since 2017 she has organised more than a dozen film events at Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge, under the concept of “Getting Together Through Films” using cinema to build bridges between communities and exploring topics of migration and identity. She has been volunteering for FilmBath since 2012 and from 2018 is part of the programming team. She also has been working for Cinema Rediscovered and has been beneficiary of the programmes Making it Possible (Raising Films) and Beyond Boundaries (Film Hub South West). She was a Lecturer at the Universidad Central de Venezuela of Television and Cinema. Author of The Venezuelan Female Drama, Centuries XIX-XX and Distribution and Exhibition of Cinema in Caracas, 1950-1960.

Adam Hussam Murray is a film programmer, writer/critic and VO-artist/community-broadcaster. Adam has previously collaborated with the Watershed on a screening of Ava Duvernay’s first feature This Is The Life, he has also contributed to the Afrofuturism season as part of BFI Sci-Fi: Days of Fear And Wonder, BFI’s Blackstar season and Cinema Rediscovered Film Festival, and is a co-curator with Come The Revolution. Come the Revolution: is a collective of curators, programmers and creatives from Bristol & Birmingham committed to exploring and challenging black life, experience and cultural expression through cinema. Adam also contributes to regular BAME film networking event Cables & Cameras at the Cube Cinema. His programming interests focus on representations of Blackness and diaspora on screen. With a particular passion for exploring mixed-race identity, Global Hip Hop Culture, Horror and Science Fiction cinema, the more dystopian or post-apocalyptic the better.

Lauren Tenn is a Plymouth based producer and film programmer who has previously served as Programme Director for Toronto’s Queer West Film Festival. She is interested in championing new and underrepresented film makers.

Tay Aziz is a researcher at the BBC, filmmaker and science communicator who is passionate about our natural world and issues of environmental and social justice. For her, film and cinema are powerful tools to tell impactful stories, uplift and empower those whose voices may not be heard and inspire cultural change. She hopes to use what she learns from Beyond Boundaries 360 to highlight the passion, power and expertise of indigenous and BAME communities in the environmental and green movements and create a new platform to highlight diverse leaders in these sectors.

Sophie Overment has always been interested in film, from how they are made right through to the screening stages. Having worked for FilmBath Festival helping to produce their 10-day film festival for the past two years, Sophie’s interest in film exhibition has gained momentum with a particular interest in immersive experiences. Sophie has recently completed a Masters in Visual Communication where she discovered the theories relating to semiotics and audience interaction and also developed a passion for graphic design in film- the things which everybody sees and nobody notices.

Liz Chege is a film programmer, critic and curator. She co-founded the Come the Revolution collective and most recently, was the programme producer of “No Direct Flight”, a cross-media exploration of global African diaspora moving-image makers that looks at how the internet and digital world has shaped diaspora cultures and aesthetics.

Gary Thompson is the founder of Cables & Cameras. Over the last 2 year the project has grown from strength to strength, building on the bi-monthly film nights to stage a gorilla outdoor film showing, host a fringe event at a major film festival and become a key voice and leader in Bristol’s independent film community. The events create a hub for BAME filmmakers and creatives in Bristol to showcase their short films / sizzler reels, enabling a platform where filmmakers can discuss, share and debate ideas. Creating this space also opens up opportunities to collaborate and network with other like-minded BAME creatives.

Nia Evans is a production assistant at Happy Hour Productions and theatre producer for artist and performer Tom Marshman. She is interested in screening films that showcase local filmmaking talent, and collaborating on projects that bring the community together through art.