Now accepting submissions of films, moving image works, residency and installation proposals for the 2011 Festival, to be held 21-23 October 2011 in Hawick, Scottish Borders.

This year's Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival will be exploring landscape and the four elements: earth, air, fire and water, whether interpreted literally, metaphorically or catastrophically. A small number of short term funded residencies for artist filmmakers are also available.

Details, submission guidelines and online entry can be found at:
http://www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/ 
Click on "Submissions 2011"

Deadline 10th June 2011.

Background to the Festival:
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2011 brings a magical mix of screenings, special events and talks inspired by the theme of landscape and the four elements. Held in the Scottish Borders town of Hawick in October, 2011 will be our second year. Our first year was a great success, attracting capacity audiences for many of the screenings, with a number of significant international artists both screened and in attendance. The festival offers an ambitious and varied programme with feature films, youth and community screenings, and educational workshops. The moving image arts strand of the programme is artist-focussed, curated by Borders based artist Richard Ashrowan. This year we are lucky to offer some limited moving image artist residencies in the area, supported by the Creative Arts Business Network (CABN), while we also hope to expand the number of small scale artist installations in disused buildings within the town, to complement the main auditorium screenings.

The festival itself is a partnership venture between Borders Arts Trust, Heart of Hawick and CABN (Creative Arts Business Network).

Film Submissions:
Priority will be given to films made in the last three years, though older films will be considered if there is a close thematic link. Short films of under 15 minutes duration will stand a much greater chance of selection. We are willing to consider feature length films only if they fit closely with our festival theme. In general, please do not submit your work if it does not fit with our theme this year - landscape and fire, earth, air and water. These elements can be interpreted individually, collectively, literally, metaphorically or psychologically, but a connection within the work should exist.

Residencies and Installations:
This year we have a small number of two week residencies on offer for moving image artists wishing to create site specific work for this year’s festival. We anticipate the residencies will happen in July and August at two rural locations in the Borders. We are interested to receive applications from moving image artists (at any stage in their career) with strong ideas for the creation of new work in some way related to the theme of this year’s festival. We are currently investigating a number of alternative disused spaces in the local town which may be suitable for showing moving image installation based work, in additional to single channel films. Each residency includes free accommodation for two weeks, plus an artists fee of £300. We regret we are unable to pay travel or any other expenses.

Further information on the website submission pages.
http://www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/