Big Screen Southend is a purpose-built display screen which opened in 2013 for the presentation of artist commissions, live transmissions, and short and feature films relative to the cultural context of Southend, South Essex and further afield. A quarterly programme of curated or newly commissioned artist moving image are screened daily in the public setting of Elmer Square, adjacent to Focal Point Gallery.

The first screening programme will include works by Ryan Christopher, Dan Guthrie, Sophie Gresswell, Maud Haya-Bavaria, Helen Anna Flanagan and Katharine Fry.