"Rain in My Heart" - Screening with Q & A

7 February 2007, 4.30 pm (MRB Screen Room 1)

Veteran documentary maker Paul Watson is coming to Goldsmiths to show and talk about the highly acclaimed 'Rain in my Heart':

"In his most powerful film to date Paul Watson tackles the subject of alcoholism. Under the care of the Dickens Ward of North Kent's Medway Hospital, four alcoholics are fighting for their lives... As Watson follows their struggles over the course of a year in and out of hospital, a gripping portrait emerges of the epidemic that is weighing down the NHS and UK society. Their stories are both shocking and utterly typical of the many thousands of alcoholics battling an illness, which Watson says we have for too long ignored." (Documentary Filmmakers Group)

"Watson's brave trek through unremittingly bleak emotional terrain ... 'Rain in My Heart' proved he has not lost his touch, particularly in the unfashionable interventions and pieces to camera, during which he not only admitted he cared, but in his subject's responses you could see how very much he was trusted. Terrible stories, beautifully - and soberingly - told." (Kathryn Flett, Observer)

There are limited seats for this event so please book well in advance by contacting: Zehra Arabadji

This screening is the first of an occasional series of documentary screenings and discussions in February and March on Wednesdays at 4.30 pm. Please contact Tony Dowmunt for more information.