ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

Our seventh edition will be held 2-6 March 2017.

Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival is an international festival of experimental film and artists’ moving image. Alchemy Film & Arts was founded in 2010 and has produced six editions of the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival. The festival is produced in partnership with Heart of Hawick in the Scottish Borders. The 2016 festival screened 124 films from 26 countries, with 44 UK or World premieres and over fifty filmmakers in attendance. Alchemy Film & Arts also engages in developmental projects for experimental film and artists’ moving image production in Scotland, including artists’ filmmaking residencies, filmmaking symposia, international and rural touring programmes, and community filmmaking initiatives.

The Festival was initiated in 2010 as a collaborative project between Alchemy Film & Arts (a registered Scottish charity), Heart of Hawick (a venue and cultural regeneration initiative run by Scottish Borders Council) and Creative Arts Business Network (CABN). It is now run as a partnership project between Alchemy Film & Arts and Heart of Hawick. Richard Ashrowan, a Scottish Borders based moving image artist, has been the festival’s Creative Director since 2010.

Heart of Hawick and Alchemy Film & Arts are again working together to create the seventh edition 2017 festival. Heart of Hawick is the central venue and festival hub, while the Creative Director coordinates the creative input of the festival partners.

Please see our submissions page for current information on submitting to the festival. Submissions
for 2017 entries closed on 30 October 2016. Submissions for the 2018 Alchemy Film Festival will open in spring 2017.

Festival Team

Richard Ashrowan – Creative Director
Harriet Warman – Producer
Laura McIntyre – Community Engagement Coordinator
 Kerry Jones – Programme Assistant, Print Traffic Coordinator
Marc David Jacobs – Programme Assistant
Michael Pattison – Programme Assistant
Walt Holland – Installations Manager
James Maybury – Technical Manager
Marta Berto – Marketing Coordinator
 Emily Charlton – Hospitality Assistant 
Jessie Growden – Adminstrator
James Coutts – PR
Karen Shaw – Scotland + Venice Project Manager

Festival Partners and Supporters

Alchemy Film & Arts exists to champion the development of independent arts and film related projects in the Scottish Borders region and Scotland as a whole. It aims to advance the arts, by the practice, knowledge, understanding and appreciation of visual arts and film.

Heart of Hawick is a multi-award winning culture-led regeneration project, a multi-agency arts and heritage initiative designed to contribute to the social, cultural and economic regeneration of Hawick and the wider Borders. Tower Mill is the central screening venue for Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival.

Creative Arts Business Network (CABN) is an informal network and information sharing project to support the creative arts sector in the Scottish Borders. CABN also delivers specialised training and support, and runs a grant scheme for Visual Artists and Craft Makers in partnership with Creative Scotland. CABN has funded three artist residencies for Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival and is funded by LEADER and Creative Scotland.