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Second international Playable City Award is now open

Posted on Mon 10 Feb 2014

We are delighted to announce that the call for submissions for the Playable City Award 2014 is now open. Artists and creatives from around the world are invited to propose new ideas that will challenge the screen-based clichés of a smart city, and respond instead to cities as playable, open and configurable spaces.

Couple in Stokes Croft

8 Minutes Idle opens on Valentine’s Day with Director’s Q+A

Posted on Tue 4 Feb 2014

A darkly romantic comedy set in Bristol opens at Watershed on Valentine's Day after local filmmakers raised enough cash for nationwide distribution through crowdfunding via Kickstarter.Based on a novel by Bristol writer Matt Thorne, the film is a black comedy about a man whose life is so awful he moves into the call centre where he works. Bristol is as much of a character as the cast of rising British talent, with plenty of scope for local location spotting.

12 Years A Slave

Slavery and Public History

Posted on Wed 29 Jan 2014

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.