In this episode: Mark Cosgrove looks forward to this year's Cannes Film Festival, where he thinks the famous auteur theory is still very much in evidence. Continuing the auteur theme, he discusses Pedro Almodovar's early career, his status as the quality European auteur, and the release of his latest film, the intoxicatingly fun I'm So Excited!

In this episode: Mark Cosgrove reflects on the impact digital is having on the film and cinema world. He also talks about Bristol-made feature film Flying Blind plus Filmic, Watershed's season of films and events celebrating the enduring relationship between film and music which continues into Spring.

In this episode: Mark Cosgrove introduces Watershed and St George's Filmic season of films and events which explore the rich relationship between film and music. The focus in March is on composer, producer, artist and collaborator John Parish and in this podcast Mark discusses with John his filmic influences and how they have inspired his own compositions for films.

In this episode: Prompted by upcoming documentary Side by Side, where Keanu Reeves goes on a tour of the past, present and future of filmmaking in today's digital revolution, Mark takes a closer look at the impact digital is having on the making of films and on what we see on screen. To explore the issues and changes, Mark is joined by South West-based cinematographer Terry Flaxton, who is Professor of Cinematography and Lens Based Media at University of the West of England.

In this episode: Mark discusses the future of cinema in this post digital, multi-platform age. Mark takes a look at the challenges cinemas and film have faced in this brave new world, and asks what it means for exhibitors, and for audiences.

In this episode: Mark discusses how food features prominently on the cinematic menu with the reissue of Oscar winning Babette's Feast plus a season of Sunday Brunch films with a food flavour. Mark is joined by Watershed's Executive Chef Oliver Pratt who discusses his own food inspirations and passions, the value of Watershed's Plot to Plate ethos, changes in food culture over recent years and some of the new food experiences Watershed has been offering over the last year.

In this episode: Mark Cosgrove on Michael Haneke's extraordinary and moving, Palme D'Or winning, Amour – coming to Watershed this month. For Mark Amour raises questions more broadly around perfection in art and explores why for him Haneke's film represents artistic perfection in cinema. Also discussed is the upcoming The Master, dubbed by some as 'a new American classic', which Mark looks forward to assessing in terms of his contention that a certain strand of American cinema is only concerned with itself, is self-referential and isolated.

In this episode: Mark Cosgrove on profiling, promoting and platforming new talent at Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, plus his pick of Future Encounters. On finding talent away from the centre through Watershed's FilmWorks programme, and its aim to develop regional based filmmakers. Plus Award-winning film industry professionals sharing skills and experiences at Encounters Festival 2012 – now available on DShed.

In this episode: Mark Cosgrove on Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, its move to September and its relationship to Bristol; Watershed's work with artists and technology which explores how we experience cities; and a certain tendency in some American cinema for what Mark perceives as 'self-obsessed amoral insularity'.

In this episode: Mark Cosgrove on the volume of film choices and the impact on cinema, whether traditional film exhibition structures are the best way to present new work, a new documentary on dissident chinese artist Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, old age on the big screen and Watershed's Creative Cinema Summer School.