Watershed Podcast
Film, TV & Pop Culture
About
Watershed staff, and guests give their take on some of the upcoming Watershed highlights.
Episodes
- Watershed Cinema Podcast: A Mark Jenkin Special!
SPOILERS AHEAD! This month Stef from Comms and Cinema Steph are joined by Cornwall's finest Mark Jenkin to speak about his latest film Rose of Nevada.
- The Earth Day 2026 Special!
Happy Earth Day Everyone! Steph and Stef are joined by Gavin Sunderland and Jess Wheeler from Watershed's Environment Group to chat through what they've got planned for this year's Earth Day.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast March 2026
Cinema Steph is joined by Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove and filmmaker and journalist Neil Maggs to talk about our month-long season Listening to Britain.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast February 2026
The Stef/phs are back - and better late than never. In this shorter episode, Steph from Comms and Cinema Steph chat Wiseman of the Month, spreadsheets and servers.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast The Everyworld Special
Welcome to The Everyworld! For this special episode Cinema Steph is joined by artist and filmmaker Andrew Kötting and Undershed Curator Amy Rose to chat about our new exhibition and film season The Everyworld.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast December 2025
In this episode Cinema Steph is joined by Watershed's Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove and Sarah from Popcorn Chat to discuss their favourite films from 2025.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast November 2025
In this episode, Cinema Steph is joined by Karina from the Bristol Palestine Film Festival to chat about what we can expect from this year’s programme - followed by Stef from Comms to run through the rest of November.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast October 2025
Freshers Flu! In this episode Stef from Comms is joined by film critic Nathan Hardie and Undershed's Producer Toki Allison to chat everything October.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast September 2025
Cinema Programmer Steph Read is joined this month by Film Hub South West's Community Manager Neil Ramjee and Executive Director of Encounters Film Festival Dave Taylor-Matthews to chat about September's cinematic highlights.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast August 2025
I dooo! In this episode, Stef and Steph are joined by Gavin Sunderland from Watershed's Environment Group to chat about what they're up to this month.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast Cinema Rediscovered 2025 Special
In this special episode, Bristol-based film critic Nathan Hardie is joined by Cinema Rediscovered Festival Founder Mark Cosgrove and Festival Producer Lorena Pino to guide you through this year's Cinema Rediscovered.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast July 2025
Come for the vibes. Stay for the vibes-based programming. In this episode, Stef from Comms and Cinema Steph are joined by Queer Vision Festival Producer Harriet Taylor to discuss this year's programme.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast June 2025
In this episode, Cinema Steph is joined by Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove to discuss this month's cinematic line-up including our Several Samurai season and their highlights from Cannes.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast May 2025
There's special guests a-plenty in this episode as Cinema Steph speaks to Undershed Curator Amy Road Producer Bernie - alongside Stef from Comms of course!
- Watershed Cinema Podcast April 2025
Holy Cow! Cinema Steph and Stef from Comms talk about stools for resting your feet on, David Lynch-inspired cocktails and making Comté cheese.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast March and Oscars® 2025
Cinema Steph and Stef from Comms cheers to their highlights (and snubs) from this year's Oscars®, chat about long and thin films and some quick spring cinema highlights.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast February 2025
Pinkie! This month Cinema Steph and Stef from Comms are reunited to talk about Memoir of a Snail, Chantal Akerman and much more in February.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast January 2025
Cinema Steph is joined by Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove and Bristol Film Critic Nathan Hardie go through their top 4 films of 2024, and then look ahead to what we’ve got to look forward to in 2025!
- Watershed Cinema Podcast December 2024
Seasons Greetings! In this episode, Steph and Stef discuss highlights from Watershed's festive cinema programme.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast November 2024
Ka-pow! Cinema Steph and Stef from Comms are joined by director Nida Manzoor (Polite Society, We Are Lady Parts) to discuss her co-curated new season Chicks, Kicks and Flicks.Produced by Bernie Hodges.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast October 2024
Carpets! Carpets! Carpets! Cinema Steph and Stef from Comms chat to Undershed's Curator Amy Rose, the new carpet in Cinema 1, and what's on in the cinemas for October.Produced by Bernie Hodges.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast September 2024
The most perfect podcast. Cinema Steph and Stef from Comms talk The Substance, My Favourite Cake and Megalopolis.Produced by Bernie Hodges.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast August 2024
When it grains it pours! Cinema Steph and Stef from Comms chat about Only The River Flows, Between The Temples and a little cameo from The Shining.Produced by Bernie Hodges.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast Cinema Rediscovered 2024 Special
In this special podcast Cinema Steph is joined by Cinema Rediscovered 2024 curators Mark Cosgrove, Adam Murray and Lorena Pino to discuss the festival which takes place Wed 24 - Sun 28 July.Produced by Bernie Hodges.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast July 2024
Featuring special guest Mia Goth! In this episode, Stef from Comms and Cinema Steph talk to Festival Producer Harriet Taylor about Queer Vision Film Festival, as well as big July highlights.Produced by Bernie Hodges.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast June 2024
Cannes of Canned-ness. In this podcast, Cinema Steph and Stef from Comms talk about Cannes, a new nature season and other cinemas with iconic carpets.Produced by Bernie Hodges.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast May 2024
Choose life. Choose podcast. Choose vibes. Cinema Steph and Stef from Comms chat everything happening in May, with the great support from the SFX from producer Bernie's desk.Produced by Bernie Hodges.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast April 2024
New York! New York! Cinema Steph and Stef from Comms chat to Ella McDonald from Film Hub South West about the Short Film Fund and Andrew Kelly from Bristol Ideas about new season NYC On Film.Produced by Bernie Hodges.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast March 2024
Kenough is kenough! Cinema Steph and Stef from Comms chat the Oscars®, in-cinema seances and falling off one's chair.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast February 2024
That's the power of cinema! In this episode Cinema Steph and Stef from Comms discuss The Iron Claw, Pirates 4D and the gays upon the heath.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast January 2024
In this episode Cinema Steph and Stef from Comms are joined by Bristol-based film critic Nathan Hardie to talk highlights of the New Year.P.S.: Some film release dates have changed since the podcast was recorded. Head to the website for th…
- Cinema Podcast December 2023
In this episode Stef and Steph are joined by Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove to discuss their top for (or five) films of 2023.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast November 2023
In this episode Stef from Comms and Cinema Steph talk about vocal fry, an exciting Q&As Joanna Hogg and trying to record a podcast despite a helicopter flying overhead!
- Watershed Cinema Podcast October 2023
In this episode Stef from Comms and Cinema Steph figure out if there's a phone better than a BlackBerry, their top picks for London Film Festival, and talk to Andrew Kelly from Bristol Ideas about a new season centred on Berlin.
- Watershed Cinema Podcast September 2023
In this episode of Stef from Comms and Cinema Steph talk about what's coming up in September including Jurassic Park back in 3D, a new season inspired by the 4K restoration of Stop Making Sense, and making sense of Barbenheimer.Get your No…
- Cinema Podcast Cinema Rediscovered 2023 Special
In this special episode, Mark and Steph are joined by Stef Graham from Watershed's Comms Team and film writer Sean Wilson to discuss this year's Cinema Rediscovered.Together they discuss what they're most looking forward to watching, the c…
- June and July 2023 Cinema Podcast
Steph Read talks to Stef Graham from the Comms Team at Watershed and Queer Vision's Jason Barker about what's coming up during this summer including Cinema Rediscovered, Queer Vision Film Festival and Barbie.
- May 2023 Cinema Podcast
This month Mark Cosgrove and Steph Read share their enthusiasm and thoughts for just a small selection of the films coming up this month at Watershed.There's searching for identity in Return to Seoul – a striking film for its incredible le…
- April 2023 Cinema Podcast
Mark Cosgrove (Cinema Curator) and Steph Read (Cinema Assistant) look ahead to a host of cinematic wonders from the old to the new. But what does cinematic even mean and why might some of the films showing in April be given that label? Fin…
- March 2023 Cinema Podcast
Watershed's Mark Cosgrove and Steph Read find plenty of films to think about in March – new films from Chile, the Oscar season ahead and the first ever Oscar nominated film from Bhutan.
- February 2023 Cinema Podcast
This month Mark Cosgrove (Watershed Cinema Curator) and Steph Read (Cinema Programme Assistant) are joined by Dr Reina Dennison, Professor of Film and Digital Arts and University of Bristol, and Harriet Taylor who runs SWITCH: an organisat…
- January 2023 Cinema Podcast
Mark Cosgrove and Steph Read share thoughts on a range of different types of cinema coming to Watershed in January - from celebrations of film to art activism.First up is mind-bending Cornish folk horror tale Enys Men which traverses isola…
- December 2022 Cinema Podcast
This month Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, is joined by colleagues to share their filmic highlights of 2022 and to reflect on a strange year in cinema – the first full year since lock down.Mark is joined by Steph Read, Watershed C…
- November 2022 Cinema Podcast
This month our Cinema Curator explores all things Arcadia and beyond with musician / sonic explorer Adrian Utley and UWE MA Curation placement Steph Read.Mark discusses Adrian's creative process and later live performance of the score writ…
- October 2022 Cinema Podcast
This month Mark speaks with Andrew Kelly, Director of Bristol Ideas from 1993 - 2022, about the season he curated for Watershed this month as well as the new adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front.Overseeing multiple projects across…
- September 2022 Cinema Podcast
This month Mark speaks with Professor Andrew Spicer about his book; Sean Connery Acting, Stardom and National Identity, and the upcoming season at Watershed, Sean Connery: Beyond Bond.Andrew is a Proffessor of Cultural Production at Univer…
- August 2022 Cinema Podcast
This month Mark discusses The Films of Kinuyo Tanaka a season coming to Watershed in August with Dr Rayna Denison, professor of film at Bristol University and leading expert in Japanese cinema.Following the UK Premiere of Forever A Woman a…
- July 2022 Cinema Podcast
Mark Cosgrove and guest co-host interview the curators behind this years Cinema Rediscovered festival, held across Bristol in July. With to interviews with Pamela Hutchinson and Mark Cosgrove on the strands they curated for this years Cine…
- June 2022 Cinema Podcast
Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, and Sean Wilson, Filmic Season Curator and writer, take a deep dive into film soundtracks throughout history.Filmic is a season of 5 films curated by Sean to illustrate the ever changing landscape o…
- May 2022 Cinema Podcast
This month Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, is joined by Steph Read, UWE MA Curation placement, as they look forward to the program of films at Watershed over the coming month.They discuss perspective in cinema and the presentation…