WATERSPRITE FILM FESTIVAL
The world’s largest student film festival.
We find and nurture the next generation of creative talent - bringing together filmmakers from around the world.
We are the world’s most accessible film festival - removing barriers to the creative industries for everyone.
We are a family – a growing community of like-minded creatives.
We find talent where larger festivals don’t. We create opportunities for young people and emerging filmmakers to come together and celebrate their work.
Every March we offer a weekend of free screenings, networking sessions, masterclasses and Q&As with Academy-Award winning speakers like Olivia Colman, Sir Lenny Henry, Mike Leigh and Eddie Redmayne.
We connect emerging talent with the industry: forging future award-winning relationships.
We platform underrepresented and often misrepresented voices in the industry: creating a platform for diverse talent from around the world.
What we do
Watersprite was launched in 2009 by a group of students. 15 years later, students are still at the heart of all we do. Watersprite is led by a team of 100 students from the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University. Chaired by multi-award winning producer and first female chair of BAFTA, Hilary Bevan Jones, Watersprite is supported by a Board of leading industry professionals and a full-time Festival Producer who guide the student team in delivering free events, screenings and networking sessions for emerging filmmakers around the world.
Who we are
1. To support learning and foster creative collaborations in the context of film, television and other art forms of the moving image.
2. To promote access to the arts by organising the Watersprite Film Festival, as well as other public screenings and events, providing opportunities to inspire audiences and raise awareness about film and other related art forms.
3. To promote a screen culture in the UK and abroad which seeks to rebalance under- representation on screen, in the workforce and in audiences by ensuring the Charity aims to grow the diversity of people engaging with the screen industries and the festival’s activities.