Oyster Land
Saturday 22nd March 2025
Plus Live Music, 7pm 
Tickets £5 Booking Required

Oyster Land is a film that spends time with the oystermen of Mersea Island, Essex and explores the ancient oyster culture of the city of Colchester. It's an atmospheric journey of working on the waters of an estuary that has sustained a local trade for thousands of years. The film has been touring the coastal communities of Essex and Suffolk.
Matthew John Harrison is a filmmaker from Colchester. He started Eudo Films to make home-grown documentaries.

Gossip
By Hannah Renton
Saturday 29th March 2025, 7pm
Film length 17 minutes
Plus live folk music from Saltings.
Tickets £5  Booking required.

East Anglia, 1584. When a young woman goes into labour a group of women, led by the local midwife, gather to guide her through the trials of labour. But as they celebrate the safe arrival of new life, a greater danger arrives at the door. A 16th century tale of community, power and resistance. Gossip tells the untold story of witches as they really were - midwives, healers, women with knowledge and power. Shot on location in Essex and Buckinghamshire.

Codename: Rendlesham
Deconstructing the UFO legend
Saturday 15th March 2025, 7pm
By Chill Factor Films
Film length: 50 minutes
Tickets £5. Booking Required.

The story of an incredible series of events that took place in Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, England. The incident involved USAF personnel in a close encounter with unknown craft at the very perimeter of RAF Woodbridge. Being leased to the USAF at the time the twin bases of RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters were highly sensitive as they ( although denied at the time ) housed nuclear weapons.

12 Months in Essex
Friday 24th January 2025
6.30pm-8pm
£5

Join us for a preview of a film documenting 12 months in the studio of landscape painter Simon Carter. We will be screening January-April, the first four months of the film which has been filmed and edited by Noah Carter. Simon and Noah will be talking about the process afterwards in a Q&A.

Tickets are £5 for the screening and talk. Book here
Film time, 40 mins, followed by a Q&A with the artists and filmmaker.

SEASIDE BLUES FILM CLUB 2023
Short films by local filmmakers / British Seaside settings

Saturday 11 February 2023, 4pm 
Azul by Tina Rowe

Saturday 18 February 2023, showing at 4pm and 5pm (film 30 minutes), 
Blackwater Mouth Tollesbury Creek Jumping Ladz by Tilly Shiner

Saturday 4 March 2023, 5.30pm
Three Salons at the Seaside by Philippa Lowthorpe
Film, 39 minutes, 1994