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CHRIS WATT is a screenwriter, novelist and film critic.

A graduate of the University of Northumbria in Newcastle, Watt has contributed reviews and articles to FILM INQUIRY, SHOW THE SHARK, DEATH BY MOVIES and THE BEARD EMPORIUM and was formerly the Senior Film Critic for WATCH THIS SPACE FILM MAGAZINE.

His screenplay, MANIFEST, was produced and released by Charlatan Films in 2015. He was shortlisted in 2014, for the Shore Scripts Short Screenplay Competition, for his screenplay EVEN GOD GETS MAD IN THE TEMPLE.

He is the author of the novel PEER PRESSURE and ON LINES, a collection of poetry and short fiction, both available from Amazon.

You can follow his word based ramblings at his site:

https://thechriswatt.wordpress.com/

Watt lives and works in the North-East of Scotland.

Film Review

Raging Cult (2019) Film Review

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If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to here it, does it make a sound? So goes the philosophical question that first appeared around the 1700s. Jump forward a few hundred years and we may find ourselves pondering…
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Mankind (2019) Film Review

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"The two lovers’ back and forth wouldn’t seem out of place in any domestic drama, and yet they cleverly subvert the context. Will isn’t leaving Evan for another person, but another planet: perhaps the most definitive goodbye there can be."
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The Female Gaze

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I really hate elitism in film criticism, and I think it’s important we get a diverse range of opinions and voices in order to really explore the art form.
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The Female Gaze

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"Fear isn’t something that we get to go through many times, and it’s an emotion full of adrenaline, excitement and sheer terror. It’s something that is completely different to any other emotion because it causes us to react in ways we might…
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The Female Gaze

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A series of interviews with Women In Film. Welcome to The Female Gaze, in which I talk with women from every walk of the creative process of film and television. Over the course of this series, we will explore every facet of the film…
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The Female Gaze

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"We’re really looking for that special voice no matter who the writer is. I would love to have a female Grand Prize winner because oddly that hasn’t happened yet, but we play things as they lay. Whoever is the best per our judges wins and…
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The Female Gaze

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"As someone who loves film and enjoys writing about it, I feel I should have my voice heard like anybody else. And I genuinely think as a woman, I’ll have different takes and thoughts to a man because (in our society) we’re likely to have…