Arts Centre Washington brings you Heritage Reels: Shipbuilding - a screening of three films about legacy of shipbuilding on Wearside and Tyneside, including Amber Film's Launch, 1974.

Screenings:

We Make Ships (1987)

Tom Pickard, poet and documentary filmmaker, returns to the shipyards in Sunderland for 6 months. During this period the Austin and Pickersgill yard experiences a financial crisis and two ships are launched onto the River Wear.

Launch (1974)

With a commitment to documenting working life in the North East, the scale and visual drama  of shipyards were immediately attractive to Amber. Made for only £400, Launch looks at the epic experience of shipbuilding communities through the launch of the “World Unicorn” oil tanker in Wallsend. 

With All the Will in the World (2018)

In 1988, the last shipyard in Sunderland closes, ending 600 years of tradition. Thirty years later, amidst the biggest regeneration project in its history, a £133 million bridge is built in it’s place. Has the city recovered and is there a future on the Wear? A reflection on history and hope as told by the shipbuilders themselves.

Speaker TBC