The Bottle Yard Studios

The Bottle Yard Studios is a British film and television production studio facility in Bristol, South West England. It is located on Whitchurch Lane, approximately 4 miles south of Bristol city centre. It offers a total of 300,000 sq. ft. of adaptable production space, making it the largest dedicated production space in the West of England.

A rising number of industrial sites around the UK have been re-purposed for film and television production, and The Bottle Yard Studios is one of the busiest complexes of its kind. Its success, combined with Bristol’s vivid track record in film and TV production and its dedicated Bristol Film Office, has led to the city being referred to as the 'Soho of the South West'.

In 2010 the site stood unused after operating for more than 50 years as a former winery and bottling plant. At one time it had housed the full production line for Harvey’s Bristol Cream Sherry, run by John Harvey & Sons.

The Bottle Yard Studios opened in 2010 as a partnership initiative with Bristol City Council, transforming the disused industrial space into a busy creative hub for film and TV production.

The Studios started out as home to BBC TV dramas including Casualty (TV series), Five Daughters, Public Enemies (TV series), Inside Men and Frankie (TV series), as well as micro-budget iFeatures films In The Dark Half and Eight Minutes Idle. In its first year, the Studios were estimated to have brought in £8m in investment into the city of Bristol. In 2012, British director Jonathan Newman's fantasy The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box, starring Michael Sheen, Sam Neill and Lena Headey, became the first major feature film to shoot at the Studios.

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