Watershed Recommends: Fri 24 - Thu 30 April

Join us for our first #Shortitout Filmmaker Front Room Q&A with the super talented Irianian-American filmmaker Desiree Akhavan.

A friendly conversation and check in for Black artists - and fellow artists who are also marginalised for their race - co-hosted by Pervasive Media Studio resident Ella Mesma. This session will be about online creativity and collaboration.

A live-streamed Q&A with the director of rural thriller Calm With Horses, Nick Rowland, and one of the film's rising stars, Niamh Algar.

In this lunchtime talk, Watershed’s Creative Technologist, Martin O’Leary, will walk us through the hundred-year history of video calling.

Get the family together for Kissy Kissy!, a silly, fun and fast game from Pervasive Media Studio resident Constance Fleuriot where you try to avoid being kissed from enthusiastic Grandparents!

Our friends at OKIDO have turned their Learn-Through-Play workshops into free downloadable lesson plans that parents, carers and teachers can access at home.

Anna (Jodie Whittaker) is an emotionally stunted 30-year-old living in her mum’s shed, learning to confront adult reality, in Rachel Tunnard’s quirky debut.

The legendary Norman Beaton performs a monologue about a 'nice' West Indian and his descent into postcolonial cynicism.

Scouring 100 years of footage from the BFI National Archive, BAFTA®-winner Paul Wright constructs an exhilarating study of Britain’s shifting - and contradictory - relationship to the land.