Film & Media Arts Production, BA (Hons) students will be attending Encounters Film Festival 2026 at Watershed in Bristol.
We will be offering subsidised Discovery Passes which will be £20 for 5 events (£35 if buying from festival). You can purchase these via Weston College shop, see link below.
Once you have the pass you can then reserve individual tickets for screenings, talks and events. See link below for details.
We will be meeting at Watershed at 10am on Weds 23rd and Thurs 24th September, you will need to make your own way to Bristol. Watershed. 1 Canons Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX.
This is an invaluable trip that will support all of your modules. You should keep some notes about what you see and feed this into your module course work.
Film Screenings & Talk - All Set West, Dirigo & UCW
Join BFI funded organisation All Set West and Weston's Super Culture at the Front Room Theatre in Weston-Super-Mare for an evening celebrating and highlighting opportunities for screen industry talent based in the West of England.
The event will start with a special screening of BBC Writers backed short film True Love and Wormholes which will be followed by a panel of experts discussing a range of topics from filming on location to careers in the industry.
You will also hear about Dirigo 12th International Student Film Festival + Photography Awards, an International Student Film Festival directed and produced by Film & Media Arts Production, BA (Hons) students from University Centre Weston. Early bird entries open on 20th November.
Doors: 6.30pm
Screening and panel discussion: 7pm
Finish and networking: 8pm
Close: 8.30pm
All Set West is funded by the BFI National Lottery Places Fund and delivered by Bristol City Council’s Film Services (The Bottle Yard Studios, Bristol UNESCO City of Film and Bristol Film Office) in partnership with the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority.
Location
Front Room Theatre, BS23 1FF
Encounters Film Festival 2022
Encounters is the UK’s leading short film, animation and virtual reality festival.
We are excited that Encounters Film Festival is back on the big screens at Watershed cinema in Bristol. We will be visiting the festival Weds 28/9/22 Thursday 29/9 and Friday 30/9. This is an important research opportunity that will feed into all of your modules this year and hopefully provide lots of inspiration and network opportunities.
The festival discovers, supports and develops new talent in filmmaking, providing a platform for emerging and established filmmakers from around the world, and continues to be a unique meeting place for the industry.
We are subsiding this trip so a 5 event pass is £15 (usually £25). We will share a link in Teams so you can pay this via weston college ‘shop’.
Plan for week
Tuesday 27th SEPTEMBER – TV STUDIO – UCW Loxton Campus 1.30pm
ENVIRONMENTAL Documentary FILM Talk and Screening: AGE OF STUPID
Part of https://greatbiggreenweek.com/
Aimed at Year 1 – BA Film & Media Arts Production students (Documentary module) but open to all.
See more details at: http://poool.co.uk/climate
WEDNESDAY 28/9/22, Thursday 29/9/22 and Friday 30/9/22
ENCOUNTERS FILM FESTIVAL and Photography Field Trip
You will need to make your own way to Bristol. Please discuss with us if this is an issue.
Meet outside Watershed 9.45 am Address: 1 Canon's Rd, Bristol BS1 5TX
Please see schedule and film guide at: https://2022.encounters.film/schedule
Choose from selection, depending on your interests, below is a few we would recommend (as an example):
Wednesday
Kids Against The Machine - Wednesday, September 28, 2022 10:00 AM Watershed Cinema 1
UK Student Competition 1: Reconnections - Wednesday, September 28, 2022 1:00 PM Watershed Cinema 3
When the Revolution Comes, We Are Together - Wednesday, September 28, 2022 4:00 PM, Watershed Cinema 1
Ghetto Film School Networking (non ticketed networking event - free) - Wednesday, September 28, 2022 6:00 PM, Watershed Café & Bar
DJ Yoda presents: Stranger Things live AV Set - Wednesday, September 28, 2022 8:00 PM, Lost Horizon
Thursday
Hiding From the Sun - Thursday, September 29, 2022 10:00 AM, Watershed Cinema 1
Look at Me, and Listen - Thursday, September 29, 2022 12:00 PM Watershed Cinema 1
Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You - Industry Talk, Thursday, September 29, 2022 2:00 PM Waterside 3
British Council Film, BAFTA and BFI NETWORK Short Film Toolkit Preview (Non Ticketed Event - Free) - Thursday, September 29, 2022 6:00 PM, Watershed Café & Bar
Friday
Apocalyptic Visions of Tomorrow - Friday, September 30, 2022 10:00 AM, Watershed Cinema 1
Dan Geesin’s SPUTUM World - Friday, September 30, 2022 - Undershed Exhibition Space (10am - 6pm - Free un-ticketed event)
Choosing Your Creative Path: Writer, Writer-director or Director? - Industry Talk - Friday, September 30, 2022 11:00 AM Waterside 3
Screenwriting Masterclass with Olivia Hetreed - Friday, September 30, 2022 1:00 PM Waterside 3
South West Showcase 1 - Friday, September 30, 2022 4:00 PM Watershed Cinema 1
PHOTOGRAPHY – STREET PHOTOGRAPHY and Exhibitions
Meet outside Watershed 9.45am
Address: 1 Canon's Rd, Bristol BS1 5TX
See suggested sites and trail sheet from Sam Brooks
Visit to RPS on Thursday
Meet outside Watershed, 1 Canon's Rd, Bristol BS1 5TX, 9.45 am
Take Bus 349 from Centre, Broad Quay (C3) to Paintworks (16 min), walk 3 mins to:
The Royal Photographic Society, RPS House, 337 Paintworks, Arnos Vale, Bristol, BS4 3AR. 0117 316 4450
Exhibition details: https://rps.org/opportunities/squaring-the-circles/
Other EXHIBITIONS you may wish to consider:
ARNOLFINI - 6 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA
https://arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/forestwakethisground/
Arnolfini welcomes you to celebrate what lies above and below the forest floor with Forest: Wake this Ground, a major group exhibition including artists, writers, filmmakers, and composers from across the globe: Rodrigo Arteaga, Mark Garry, Alma Heikkilä, Eva Jospin, Jumana Manna, Zakiya Mckenzie, David Nash, Maria Nepomuceno, John Newling, Rose Nguyen, Ben Rivers, Ai Weiwei, and Hildegard Westerkamp.
With works that recycle, reuse and repurpose resources, we will be discovering the forests’ ancient rhythms, as well as exploring stories, myths, and folktales, passed down between people over centuries.
Ben Rivers’ film Look Then Below looks to the future, journeying into a subterranean world. Shot beneath the Mendip hills and ancient woodland in Somerset, the film reimagines a future in which the full impact of environmental damage inflicted by man is felt.
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s monumental upended ‘roots’, cast from the ancient and endangered Pequi Vinagreiro tree (found in the Bahian rainforest), reflect both the uprootedness of arboreal species and the displacement of people.
MSHED - Princes Wharf, Wapping Rd, Bristol BS1 4RN
Think Global: Act Bristol - explores big environmental questions affecting people here and worldwide, and presents perspectives from a wide range of local voices.
https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/m-shed/whats-on/think-global-act-bristol/
Disability Activism in Bristol: pioneers, protests and progress from the 1980s to now
Bristol has been a vital city in disability activism, but this history has been largely unwritten. Until now. This brand new display is a collaboration with Bristol Disability Equality Forum. The research and interviews were carried out by young Disabled volunteers. The themes, design and feel of the museum display have all been guided by the experiences of Disabled young people. The images were taken by Bristol-based photographer David Constantine.
Building a Martian House - Building a Martian House is a public art project that has made a prototype of a real Martian house.
https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/m-shed/whats-on/building-a-martian-house/
BLUESCREEN - (Short Films Screenings since 2001) at CUBE CINEMA
Wed 28 September // 19:30
Tickets: Tickets: £3.00 (Via Headfirst - on sale from Sept 1st). Cube Cinema, Dove Street South, [off top-left of King Square], Kingsdown, Bristol, BS2 8JD
If you want to submit your own film for screening, Film submission end date will be: Sept 19th. Details at:
https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/bluescreen,12014/
Subversive Iranian Documentary - Curated and introduced by Ehsan Khoshbakht
(Part of BEEF presents: Conspirators of Perception at CUBE Cinema)
Thursday 29/9/22 - 20:00
£7 . Cube Cinema, Dove Street South, [off top-left of King Square], Kingsdown, Bristol, BS2 8JD
Details at: https://www.beefbristol.org/portfolio/beef-presents-conspirators-of-perception/
This selection of rarely screened Iranian documentaries from the 1960s is a window into the brilliant documentary movement that emerged in the country in the late 1950s. A distinctive voice as opposed to the Iranian commercial cinema of its time, the movement was fully established by the mid-1960s as the greatest cinematographic offering that Iran had to offer the international film scene. What most of these often commissioned films had in common was the subversion of not only the commissioned subject but also the whole notion of state-sponsored cinema. At least two of the selected films were banned at the time for that bold move.
Ehsan Khoshbakht is a film curator, writer and filmmaker. He co-directs Il Cinema Ritrovato; a festival of classics and film restoration in Bologna, and writes about film and the history of cinema and beyond for Notes on Cinematograph.
BFI FLARE 2022 - London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
Discover the best new queer films from around the world at BFI Flare 2022, taking place 16-27 March at BFI Southbank London and on BFI Player.
More details at: https://bfi.org.uk/flare #BFIFlare
The BFI Youtube channel has a great archive of talks from this and other festivals too.
ENCOUNTERS FILM FESTIVAL 2022
Encounters is the UK’s leading short film, animation and virtual reality festival.
The festival discovers, supports and develops new talent in filmmaking, providing a platform for emerging and established filmmakers from around the world, and continues to be a unique meeting place for the industry. Usually held at Watershed in Bristol, this year’s festival is online.
You can buy a pass for £10 at: https://www.encounters.film/festival-passes which gives you access to the full festival programme to watch on demand.
We will be screening a selection from the festival in the TV studio at Loxton campus.
We are looking at screening the following:
Monday
10am - TV Studio - aimed at Lens Based Media Students (with Rich), but others welcome (space permitting)
Acts of Resistance (from Live Action Programme) - When enough is enough, taking action can lead to the most daring, unpredictable gestures. More details
Comedy 2 - Some light-hearted relief to the woes of the world. More details
You, Me & Cold War Steve - Photography Exhibition - Loxton Gallery, plus Loves Cafe and Weston Arts Space. (Running - Sept 20th - October 3rd 2021) Details here
Wednesday
10am - TV Studio - aimed at Film & Media Arts Production - Year 1 and 2 (with Ross), but others welcome (space permitting)
DEPICT - Super short filmmaking competition, challenging filmmakers from across the globe to create an imaginative and original short film of 90 seconds or less. Read More
This is Me - Identities are fluid and continuously re-defined through long-overdue conversations and self-discovery. Hair – grey, curly, gender-affirming – and clothes set us all on an empowering journey. Read More
Comedy 1 - A lucky dip of animation and live action fun! Read More
Thursday and Friday
Trip to Bristol Photography Festival see details here
Other suggested programmes to watch:
Industry Roundtables - A series of roundtable discussions with industry professionals covering topics affecting new talent. More details here