On 19th Aug 2006, , Moving Image Borders was launched at an interactive event at the Pavilion Cinema, Galashiels. The day included speeches by Cameron Robson (Director, MIB);Graeme Campbell (Film Officer, MIMAC); Mitch Miller (Editor, The Drouth) and Dave Rushton (Institute of Local Television). These speeches were followed up with Digital Cinema Screeenings, Digital Editing and HD Camera Workshops and finally a Networking opportunity.

MIB aims to promote and support moving image productions in the Scottish Borders through training, screenings, networking and, in the near future, equipment hire. With support from the National Lottery and MIMAC, MIB is the culmination of a long campaign by Borders filmmakers to create an indigenous industry and promote Borders life and culture in the wider media through the production of drama, documentary, animation and video art. For more information, contact MIB on (01450) 372271, or email organiser@movingimageborders.co.uk

MIB helped in the production of

Sick of it - rock video for local Hawick band, The Honeybadgers

500 years of Shaving Goats - video based on a light hearted ghost story. Shot at Balgonie Castle, Fife and Neidpath Castle Scottish Borders. Brian Devlin directed this recent video shoot, and we have a special page - with photos - dedicated to it. See our Shaving Goats page. Brian has produced DVDs of this film (available from Brian via organiser@movingimageborders.co.uk) which were premiered at Peebles Eastgate Theatre in 2010.

White Candle - a video based on a ballad written and performed by Galashiels musician, Mike Lauder.

Elvis’ Ring - a short story based on events occurring 50 years after Elvis Presley’s short detour to Prestwick Airport.

Southern Cross - a video ballad about high school bullying set to a “Snakes of Shake” sound track and shot at Galashiels Academy and St.Augustines High School, Edinburgh.

Lost Voices of World War 1 – actors in period dress reciting a compilation of First World War poetry. Videod at Kailzie Gardens in the Scottish Borders.

Sacrificial Bonfire – a video ballad based on an XTC song, and given an Elizabethan setting. The video was shot using local actors.

Reivers Festival  - A DVD giving the highlights of Hawick's Reiver Festivals 2003-2008 (soon to be updated to 2003 – 2010) is now available. It has been produced by Reiver Productions using MIB equipment.

PSA Male Voice Choir 75th anniversary concert  - held in Teviot Church Hall, in front of a packed audience.

Hawick Pipe Band Championships 2006  - held at Volunteer Park.

Also available is a DVD of the play Liddesdale: An Episode from a Border Feud (edited using MIB equipment, and performed at Stampers in 2004).

Continuing with the Border Reivers theme, MIB is also providing the equipment for the production of John Turnbull’s Wager, a video drama currently being shot in the Hawick and Denholm area.

If a community has access to the ability to present itself through a video film or to have its views heard on TV or over the Web through a site or on radio all these things are assisting in the process of providing social inclusion.

The main aim of MIB is to set up permanent Borders Media Access centres with the aim of supporting and encouraging members of the Borders community in participating in the moving image.

You can read more about the aims of MIB on the next page.