Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival

Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival is an annual film festival and the flagship event of Alchemy Film & Arts that takes place each year in the Scottish Borders town of Hawick. Founded in 2010, it has grown to be considered as one of the key fixtures of experimental and artist film within the UK and Europe.

Alchemy Film & Arts, a registered Scottish Charity, receives regular funding from Creative Scotland. The organisation works "with communities and artists both locally and internationally, using film as a way to come together, have conversations and make positive change." The organisation states that it values "openness, experimentation, creativity, solidarity and humour."

Alchemy Film & Arts and its annual film festival have been directed by Rachael Disbury and Michael Pattison since 2019.

Among its access policies, Alchemy lists that all films barring 16mm presentations are captioned; all programmes are provided with content warnings; tickets to cinema screenings are priced at a sliding scale. In addition, the festival's open call for entries has a tiered 'pay what you can' system and offers full waivers to any artist in need of one. The festival states on its FilmFreeway page that it is proudly non-competitive and that it "believes premiere policies – whereby a film is disqualified from screening at one event because it was exhibited by another – actively produce competition, disparity and territorialism between artists, communities and curators."

In addition to its annual film festival, Alchemy Film & Arts produces year-round projects that encompass artist residencies, commissions and film exhibitions, research and discussion events, and a community filmmaking and creative learning programme.