Filmmaking

Knowledge Network Winning Pitch

Knowledge Network president Rudy Buttignol (left) and Murray Battle, Knowledge Network director of independent production and presentation (right) were at Touchstones Nelson on Sunday where they awarded Nelson filmmaker Amy Bohigian (centre) with a $30,000 film contract to produce a series on local history about Nelson and the Kootenays. Bohigian’s […]

Film Registration Now Open

What a great summer at film camp and what a keen group of young filmmakers we had in each of our two programs this summer. We had many returning participants, including some 4, 5 and 6 year veterans of the film camp! Even two of the instructors for the Director’s […]

Distribution Deal

Films Media Group out of New York City has picked up Conceiving Family to distribute to the educational market. I am very excited that we’ve found the right home for the film – for the next 7 years. Films Media Group works with schools K-12, colleges and universities, and educational […]

KAST Business Profile

Kootenay Association of Science and Technology recently published a profile on Watershed Productions. Click on post title and then click here: KAST Business Profile. KAST works to foster a culture that values science, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship as activities vital to maintaining and enhancing the competitiveness of the region. This […]

A Watershed Moment

It is a watershed moment for gay marriage in the U.S. and November is National Adoption Awareness Month in Canada and the U.S. No better time than now to keep social progress moving FORWARD and buy a copy of my film, Conceiving Family! Click here for more information and to […]

Film Camp 2012

We had another great summer of making movies at the film camp with over 30 participants in our two programs offered in July. Jason Asbell shared his love of filmmaking with both the Director’s Seat and Senior Director’s Seat programs. You can see we got our hands on the old […]

Osprey Community Foundation

Watershed Productions is excited to be working on video for this amazing community resource, telling the story of the Osprey Community Foundation through the donors, the board, the grant recipients and other community members who have been involved in making the Osprey Community Foundation so integral to Nelson. Production is […]

Festival Announcements

Conceiving Family was awarded Best Documentary Feature at the 7th Annual Women in Film Festival held at the VanCity Theatre in Vancouver, BC. Dancing with the Moon, a short animated documentary by local filmmaker, Katherine Pettit, was named Best Animation at the festival. These films premiered in Nelson together back […]

The Surviving Not Thriving PhotoVoice Project

With funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Vancouver Foundation, the BC Non-Profit Housing Association and the BC Society of Transition Houses have conducted groundbreaking research on the barriers to affordable housing for women leaving abusive relationships. 45 women across BC participated in the project, taking over […]