The five day event takes place at the newly-opened Lux Cinema in Shoreditch, East London. In the launch year the festival will present sixteen curated programmes. The programmes will provide a survey of key films since 1954 and transgender cinema history firsts, contributing to establishing a transgender genre but which will also bring together a range of recent international documentaries, artists' shorts, independent features and work from cinema/television archives by and/or about transgender people, cultures and issues. The festival will be open submission in subsequent years. Also in the future Alchemy Productions hopes to tour,distribute, archive and maybe produce transgender work. In this launch year of the festival we will present the first ALCHEMY AWARD, and annual award which the festival will give to producers or filmmakers for the programme or film which has made the most impact that year in terms of accurate and diverse transgender representation and the countering of negative stereotypes.