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BSL Guide: Wine

  BSL Guide: Wine

Posted on Tue 28 Nov 2017

Watershed Guide to BSL: Wine

Mockumentary

  Mockumentary

Posted on Tue 14 Nov 2017

A mockumentary exploring the perils of online privacy and transparency.

BSL Guide: Food

  BSL Guide: Food

Posted on Tue 28 Nov 2017

Watershed Guide to BSL: Food

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.

Royalty Hightower in The Fits

“ The Fits: a coming of age meditation on belonging and Black female freedom ”

Posted on Thu 2 March 2017 by Liz Chege

We watched a preview of the film with members of Come The Revolution, a collective of curators, programmers and creatives committed to exploring Black life on screen. In this reflective piece, collective member Liz Chege discusses The Fits, the lack of films focusing on Black female coming of age stories, the desire for belonging, and Black womanhood.

March 2017 Watershed Podcast

  March 2017 Watershed Podcast

Posted on Thu 11 May 2017

A Taste of South Korean Cinema is on the menu in Watershed's March Podcast.

Baitball

What Will You DepicT! ? 2017 submissions now open...

Posted on Wed 22 Feb 2017

DepicT!, our ultra-short film competition that asks filmmakers from around the world to create an original short film under 90 seconds long, is back and we’re looking for your...