Watershed Recommends: Fri 8 - Thu 13 May
Please note : this season finished in May 2020
Although the Watershed building may be closed we are still sharing different ways for you all to enjoy and experience highlights from across our activity - cinema (this week we have a focus on Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma), creative tech, the Pervasive Media Studio, Rife Magazine and many more Watershed projects.
Previous events in this season
#Shortitout with Jim Cummings
Watershed Recommends Week 7This Thursday, we'll be welcoming the dynamic indie writer, director and actor Jim Cumming for our #Shortitout Filmmaker Front Room Q&A!
Rife Highlight: Home - A Spoken Word Poem
Watershed Recommends Week 7In this spoken word poetry piece, Rife Magazine's Lucy explores her experience in lockdown.
Céline Sciamma - Portrait of a Filmmaker on Fire: Water Lilies
classifiedSuitable only for 15 years and over
No one younger than 15 may see a 15 film in a cinema.Writer/director Céline Sciamma's (Girlhood, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Tom Boy) provocative and stylish debut is an impressive coming-of-age drama that captures the anxieties of the early teen years.
Céline Sciamma - Portrait of a Filmmaker on Fire: Extras
Watershed Recommends Week 7Get to know more about Celiné Sciamma’s award-winning screen writing skills by watching My Life as a Courgette, scripted by her and spend an hour in Sciamma's company courtesy of this post-screening Q&A from last years BFI London Film Festival.
Céline Sciamma - Portrait of a Filmmaker on Fire: Tomboy
classifiedSuitable for all
A U film should be suitable for audiences aged four years and over.A tender drama from Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Girlhood) about a ten-year-old child exploring a new gender identity.
British Sign Language - Watershed Recommends
Watershed Recommends Week 7In this BSL (British Sign Language) video our friend and partner, artist and filmmaker David Ellington takes you through our current online recommendations of great cinema and creative content, all of which have either Descriptive Subtitles or Subtitles.
May Cinema Podcast
Watershed Recommends Week 7In May's cinema podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, considers the existential crisis at the heart of cinema and film under the current situation. Delving into the past for insight, Mark wonders – what does cinema mean when there is no cinema?
Céline Sciamma - Portrait of a Filmmaker on Fire: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
classifiedSuitable only for 15 years and over
No one younger than 15 may see a 15 film in a cinema.Winner of Best Screenplay and the Queer Palm at Cannes (where it received rave reviews and was widely considered the best film of the festival), Céline Sciamma’s striking fourth feature is an exquisite tale of female desire, hidden love, art, and the gaze.
Céline Sciamma - Portrait of a Filmmaker on Fire: Girlhood
classifiedSuitable only for 15 years and over
No one younger than 15 may see a 15 film in a cinema.Céline Sciamma (Water Lilies, Tomboy, Portrait of a Lady on Fire) continues her exploration of female youth with her triumphant third film, Girlhood.