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Amira Kheir on Scoring Sumurun

  Amira Kheir on Scoring Sumurun

Posted on Thu 10 Aug 2017

Italian-Sudanese singer/songwriter Amira Kheir discusses her brand new live rescore of Sumurun, also known as One Arabian Night.

Digital Dishes

  Digital Dishes

Posted on Tue 31 Oct 2017

A week long workshop for over fifties from across Europe, creating digital stories based on their personal experiences with food.

BAFTA Preview: Byzantium Q&A

  BAFTA Preview: Byzantium Q&A

Posted on Thu 10 Aug 2017

Award-winning producer, Stephen Woolley, and Watershed's Head of Programme, Mark Cosgrove discuss 'Byzantium', a feminist take on the vampire film.

In the Shadow of a Man

Discover Egypt Now at Watershed

Posted on Wed 10 April 2013

Watershed explores the rich past and complicated present of Egypt in our April season Egypt Now (Tue 16 – Tue 30 April). Focusing on a recent surge in contemporary filmmaking in Egypt, we present five fascinating films providing an essential context to the momentous upheavals that led to the unfolding of the Arab Spring.

The book you will receive in These Pages Fall Like Ash

Digital doesn't mean losing the plot

Posted on Tue 9 April 2013

Helen McCrory and Najib Oudghiri in Flying Blind

Bristol-made film Flying Blind opens at Watershed

Posted on Thu 4 April 2013

Bristol itself takes a starring role in Flying Blind, a passionate love story of an older woman and a young Muslim man, opening at Watershed on Fri 12 April. Filmed last year in the city centre, Harbourside, Clifton, the Downs, Easton and Stokes Croft, you will recognise some iconic Bristol locations. Helen McCrory (Hugo, Skyfall, Harry Potter) takes the lead role as Frankie, a high-flying aerospace engineer whose carefully controlled existence is thrillingly undone by a love affair.

Grundtvig participants at work

Grundtvig Digital Literacy Workshops

Project Ended in April 2013

Two digital literacy workshops for learners aged over fifty who had little or no experience of working with digital media.

A new kind of electronic synthesiser.

Ever played a futuristic 3D space-bongo or a Theatre Jukebox?

Posted on Wed 27 March 2013

Filmic 2013: Tron Night

  Filmic 2013: Tron Night

Posted on Tue 31 Oct 2017

A short film made by BFI Film Academy participants about their Tron screening + Man vs Machine afterparty.

Scene from Ton - a couple dressed in neon headgear kissing.

Step back to 1982 this Friday night at Watershed

Posted on Wed 20 March 2013

Reflections on the Programme – BFI Film Academy Bristol 2013

  Reflections on the Programme – BFI Film Academy Bristol 2013

Posted on Tue 7 Nov 2017

The BFI Film Academy participants reflect on their experiences and what they've gained from the programme.