We’re delighted to share with you the first Bristol City of Film showreel, celebrating the outstanding talent, productions, festivals, events and educators that make Bristol a world-class UNESCO centre for film and the moving image!

Channel 4 officially marked the opening of its new Creative Hub in Bristol last night at an event for staff, producers and partners from the region to launch the new offices based in Bristol’s Finzels Reach.

Bristol City of Film is celebrating this week as two films produced by the city’s production companies have picked up a total of three nominations for this year’s BAFTAs.

Ecosse Films’ six-part drama The Trial of Christine Keeler, which takes a fresh look at the 1960s ‘Profumo Affair’, will premiere on BBC One on Sunday 29th December, following its extensive shoot at The Bottle Yard Studios and a host of Bristol locations earlier this year.

Watershed was one of only two cinemas in the UK to host this year’s edition of European Cinema Night with last night’s special free preview of the German arthouse hit System Crasher followed by a Q&A with the film’s producer Frauke Kolbmüller.

On 23rd October, legendary animator Nick Park sat down for a special interview marking 30 years of Wallace & Gromit, with film critic Mark Kermode and Professor of Film Studies at Exeter University Linda Ruth Williams.

Blak Wave, spearheaded by Michael Jenkins and Dr Mena Fombo, will be the first of Bristol’s 140 TV production companies to be black owned.

After a public ticket ballot that saw more than 80,000 people apply for tickets, it was a packed auditorium of 300 that settled in for the Bristol preview of Seven World One Planet at Showcase Cinema de Lux on 23 October, introduced by Sir David Attenborough.

Eddie Bingham, Communications and Fundraising Lead at Bristol-based social enterprise Babbasa, describes the Hear Our Stories short film, which tells the stories of ethnic minority individuals who are excelling in Business and Entrepreneurship.

The new academic year may be well underway for students, but this October teachers from ten Bristol primary schools are beginning their own learning journey that will see them become professionally trained to use film as a teaching tool.

This year’s Festival of the Future City (16-18 October 2019) features a fantastic film programme featuring “classic utopian films about cities; cities in silent cinema; and documentaries on New Towns, democracy, the housing crisis and the anthropocene”, plus a season of classic film noirs.

James Durie, chief executive of Bristol Chamber & Initiative at Business West, reflects on the growth of Bristol’s TV & film economy.