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King Kong

“ Book your Cinema Rediscovered Pass and Tickets ”

Posted on Thu 27 April 2017

We are pleased to announce that Cinema Rediscovered Passes are now on sale, enabling you to enjoy all the weekend events (Thu 27 - Sun 30 July) at a reduced price.

Pouring a pint of cider

Watershed Cider Festival

Posted on Wed 26 April 2017

Summer is coming and to help get you in the mood we're celebrating that most wonderful of summer drinks – the humble cider.

Akira Night – BFI Film Academy Bristol 2015

  Akira Night – BFI Film Academy Bristol 2015

Posted on Thu 25 June 2020

For one night only, Watershed audiences could experience definitive anime masterpiece Akira on the big screen followed by a free Akira-inspired party and DJ set. After the film the bar was transformed into a sci-fi inspired Tokyo city scape including a retro 80s games arcade, a graffiti wall, and cosplay.

Bloom and Curll

  Bloom and Curll

Posted on Tue 14 Nov 2017

A portrait of an independent Bristol bookshop and its owner.

Beyond the Impossible – BFI Film Academy Bristol 2015

  Beyond the Impossible – BFI Film Academy Bristol 2015

Posted on Tue 14 Nov 2017

A young woman with spastic diplegia cerebral palsy talks about what horse-riding means to her.

Part of BFI Film Academy Bristol Mini Docs 2015

Playable City showreel

  Playable City showreel

Posted on Mon 19 Feb 2018

Playable City puts people and play at the heart of the future city, re-using city infrastructure and re-appropriating smart city technologies to create connections – person to person, person to city.

April 2017 Watershed Podcast

  April 2017 Watershed Podcast

Posted on Thu 11 May 2017

April at Watershed celebrates the creative connections between film and music through screenings and performances as a part of Filmic.

Pervasive Media Studio

Watershed and UWE launch two new MA courses

Posted on Wed 29 March 2017

Watershed has joined forces with UWE Bristol to offer a two new MA courses – one in Creative Producing - inspired by the work of the Pervasive Media Studio, and one in Contemporary Film Culture, both starting in September 2017.

Ben Wheatley

“ Ben Wheatley on Free Fire ”

Posted on Mon 27 March 2017

We chatted to director Ben Wheatley about his latest film, Free Fire, ahead of its run here at Watershed.

Mica Levi composed the music for Jackie

Filmic 17: Music for the film in your head

Posted on Mon 27 March 2017

Filmic is our annual look at the creative connections across film and music, hosted in partnership with Colston Hall and St George's Bristol. Throughout April we present a season of films scored by female composers, including Mica Levi's latest film score for Jackie.

The original design

“ Using iterative development to redesign our exhibit pages ”

Posted on Tue 7 March 2017

A few months ago I had the same fear when tasked with redesigning exhibit pages on watershed.co.uk. They're our highest traffic pages and they have a complex information architecture. I'm going to share how a process of iterative development got us there steadily, and explain why we've adopted it for solving most other user experience problems we face in the Online team at Watershed. I'll also detail some of the tools and techniques we used along the way.