Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival- Embracing the Strange by Tabitha Mudaliar

The Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival is the flagship event of Alchemy Film & Arts and is the biggest film festival of its kind in Scotland. The festival is known for showing a unique range of avant-garde films featuring a diverse selection of the very best in new and established film making talent form around the world. Alchemy has a reputation as a festival of excellence, exhibiting the best filmmaking talent, and as an incubator for new home-grown talent. The interest from international press and the film industry is impressive.

This year the 13th annual festival was a huge success. Taking place from 27th – 30th April in the welcoming town of Hawick and making use of the fantastic facilities in the Heart of Hawick cinema and art space, and in the Hawick Heritage Hub nearby. The festival programme was made up of a wide variety of experimental and art film made by contributors from all over the world.

Four of those filmmakers came from Dumfries and Galloway. Congratulations to Emma Dove, Hope London & Daniel Hughes, and Mark Lyken, who all exhibited films at Alchemy this year.