OOR AIN FILM ARCHIVE

Alchemy Film & Arts are proud to launch Oor Ain Film Archive, a major new film preservation and screen heritage project celebrating Hawick and Scottish Borders communities on film.  

Thanks to a £140k grant from the BFI Screen Heritage Fund, awarding National Lottery funding, the cross-programme project explores the social histories and industrial legacies of our town and region.

Taking place between autumn 2025 and spring 2026, Oor Ain Film Archive encompasses the digitisation and restoration of local archive treasures made by Hawick and Borders communities; a season of screenings and public events over the coming autumn/winter; a call for donations of old films from the region; a young people’s creative learning initiative; a training and skills enhancement programme for Alchemy staff; and the development of a permanent online resource dedicated to local archive films.

The project marks the 60th anniversary of the first ‘Hawick Pictorial’ – what became a series of popular annual snapshot of the year in Hawick on film, made by founding members of local cineaste club and long-term Alchemy partner Hawick Film Group between 1965 and 1980.

Launching in November, the public screenings programme will include all eleven Hawick Pictorials in a newly digitised format. Screening in Heart of Hawick, they will be accompanied by a supporting programme including other rarely-seen treasures from the archive. 

Tickets are available via Eventbrite now.

UPCOMING SCREENINGS
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