SCOTTISH film director brings his successful movie to Peebles.

Director Steven Lewis Simpson has toured Scotland with the film adaptation of the novel 'Neither Wolf Nor Dog' and will finally bring the moving film to the Borders.

Eastgate Theatre will screen the movie set in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in America on September 26.

Created with a leading actor who was 95 years old when the film was shot, it is the longest first-run movie for over a decade in the US.

The movie's lead actor Chief David Bald Eagle, who served during World War II and went on to have a career as an actor and musician, sadly passed away at the age of 97, shortly after the films release. He was the grandson of Chief White Bull who fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1976, and himself went on to become the Chief of the United Native Nations.

Neither Wolf Nor Dog tackles racism towards Native Americans and shows the harrowing effects of battles and massacres such as those at Wounded Knee. This location was familiar to two cast members, Bald Eagle and Richard Ray Whitman - Whitman was caught-up in the occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973 to silence Native activists and Bald Eagle's relatives were present at the massacre of 1890.

Simpson's portrayal of Native Americans in his films has granted him a high level of respect from the communities he's worked with, so much so he was invited to produce the first series for a 24/7 US Native TV station.

Of the film, Simpson said: "Neither Wolf Nor Dog takes the audience on a deeply moving road trip through contemporary Lakota

life. Its humour is wry and pulls no punches, introducing deep characters and poignant vignettes that challenge the viewer to see the world a bit differently.

"It is thematically like Green Book, but with true cultural depth, unlike Green Book’s “racism by the numbers” approach."

Neither Wolf Nor Dog opens at the Eastgate Theatre, Peebles, on September 26 at 7.30pm.

Tickets can be purchased at https://eastgatearts.com/events/neither-wolf-nor-dog/ for £9 for adults and £6 for children.