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HSB 2015 - T Bone Burnett by judy h used under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

A T Bone Filmic Feast

Posted on Wed 29 Jan 2014

Musical multi-hyphenate T Bone Burnett is a man of many talents. He has toured with Bob Dylan, produced albums for the likes of Roy Orbison, Elvis Costello, Alison Krauss and Elton John, enjoyed a successful recording career and won 13 Grammys and an Oscar®.

Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years A Slave

12 Days of 12 Years

Posted on Wed 22 Jan 2014

Kiss The Water - now screening

Kissing the Water

Posted on Wed 15 Jan 2014

Customer comments on 12 Years A Slave

Five days of 12 Years

Posted on Tue 14 Jan 2014

Our Executive Chef Oliver Pratt with our PETA award

Watershed crowned one of the UK's Top Five Vegan-Friendly Cultural Venues

Posted on Fri 10 Jan 2014

Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine - our most popular film of 2013!

Watershed Top 10 Sellers of 2013

Posted on Fri 10 Jan 2014

We're only ten days into the New Year and we've all packed away the decorations, dusted off the mince pies and made resolutions we'll fail to keep. Let's spare a thought for 2013, a year when cities were playable, a British man lifted the Wimbledon trophy, and Gromit was well and truly unleashed - what did 2013 in film look like, and what were our top sellers?

Nairobi Half Life

Watershed's UK tour of Kenyan films opens tonight

Posted on Thu 9 Jan 2014

Following sold out screenings at Afrika Eye Festival last November, we are delighted to confirm that two new Kenyan films - Nairobi Half Life and Something Necessary - are now playing at cinemas and festivals across the UK as part of New Visions from Kenya: Celebrating 50 years of Independence. Audience reaction here at Watershed has been outstanding for both films.

BikeTAG Colour Keepers. Photography © Max McClure

Welcome to Recife: The Playable City

Posted on Wed 8 Jan 2014

This week we are delighted to welcome participants from Brazil and the UK who are joining us as part of the Recife: The Playable City programme. Participants will spend the next 10 days developing ideas here at Watershed’s Pervasive Media Studio, before heading to Brazil in April to finalise their prototypes.

Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years A Slave

Reflections on 12 Years A Slave

Posted on Wed 8 Jan 2014

Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years A Slave

The unflinching intensity of Steve McQueen

Posted on Fri 3 Jan 2014

Producers at Watershed's Lab

Digital Producers Lab celebratory film released

Posted on Thu 19 Dec 2013

Last Autumn, Watershed and National Theatre Wales supported 12 brilliant creative Digital Producers through Wales’ very first Digital Producers Lab, a development programme to foster digital talent and catalyse production of creative technology projects in Wales. We are delighted to announce that we have just released a short film following the Digital Producers Lab that ran at Watershed between Sept - Nov 2013.