“This is a raw, real interpretation, it’s not a PR film”
A screening of the film Postcodes at the Watershed, March 2, 2026, with a panel discussion afterwards, chaired by Joe Sims, left, with Melanie Monaghan from the Hartcliffe and Withywood Community Partnership, filmmaker Neil Maggs and Zak Dugdale, from 224 South Bristol Youth Zone(Image: Bristol Post)
A film about young people, knife crime and postcode rivalries that focuses on two areas of South Bristol is to be screened for the first time in those areas next month.
The documentary, simply called Postcodes, has been premiered at the Watershed, and shown in east Bristol and even at the Houses of Parliament, but will be shown in Hartcliffe, Withywood, Knowle West and Bedminster Down in the coming weeks.
The film, directed by Bristol filmmaker Neil Maggs, follows young boxing mentor and knife crime campaigner Serene Wiebe, from Easton, as she meets young people and youth workers in Hartcliffe and Knowle West to talk about the issue of postcode rivalries.
The film was commissioned as a joint venture by both the Knowle West Alliance, the Knowle West Health Park and the Hartcliffe and Withywood Community Partnership, and there are plans for it to be shown in schools in the coming months too.
The first screening takes place on Tuesday, May 5 from 6pm and will take place at the new 224 Youth Zone, opposite Imperial Retail Park on Hartcliffe Way – which will be one of the very first opportunities people will have to see inside the new youth centre.
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Then, on Tuesday, May 19 from 6pm, the film will be screened at Zion Bristol in Bedminster Down, followed by a screening on Thursday, June 11 at the Knowle West Media Centre. It will be screened in somewhere in Hartcliffe and Withywood in the BS13 postcode – at a venue yet to be confirmed – on Tuesday, June 23, with another screening at the Knowle West Media Centre on Thursday, July 9.
Each event begins at 6pm with the screening of the film followed by a Q&A with some of the people involved in making the film.
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All the events are free, but require booking a ticket – anyone interested should go to the Eventbrite page for all the events.
The film is a raw reveal of young people’s opinions in Knowle and Hartcliffe and talks to kids on football pitches, at youth clubs and on the streets, as well as youth workers in both areas.
An image from the 2026 documentary film Postcodes, exploring postcode rivalry in Hartcliffe and Knowle West(Image: Maggs Smart Media)
“You don’t hear the opinions of young people very often and often if you do, it’s probably slightly controversial to say, but often it’s the ones that are the most sort of polished, immediate, trained or rolled out to make an organisation look good,” said Neil.
“This is a raw, real interpretation, it’s not a PR film. There are lots of people doing some brilliant work, they’re bringing through young people… but what I don’t see enough of is cross-pollination, people travelling into different spaces and different areas,” he added.