The project intends to produce broadcast programming and highlight issues and concerns in the rural west for the television market.There has traditionally been a dearth of programming from this part of Ireland because of a lack of infrastructure and a shortage of skills. Achievements: The Window on the West project launched by SEARCH (Stralongford Education and Rural Community Help) and North Leitrim Womens Resource Group was delivered bySoup Stone Productions. The project was a cross border initiative aimed at raising the broadcast profile of the rural West while establishing Soup Stone Productions as a viablebusiness. Critical to the success of the project operating was the need to build infrastructure and alliances within the border area and to promote the creation and development of networks of co-operation across internal borders. This entailed providing training in Leitrim, Omagh, Derry and Donegal and raising the skills base in the area. It also involved a number of documentary productions in these areas such as The Last Mural, The Owners Called it the Mine and The Writing on the Wall. These were produced with a network of skilled workers from across the border area and Soup Stone now have a freelance database of workers from across Tyrone, Fermanagh, Derry and Donegal.Window on the West used the media technologies not only as a means of reproducing facets of local life but also as a way of encouraging businesses and communities to explore their potential in terms of reaching a wider audience. This meant producing documentaries about aspects of rural life as well as promotional DVDs and adverts for use on web-sites targeted at SMEs, working with over thirty businesses during the last three years. Soup Stone has also been making in-roads in the documentary sector. RTE broadcast The Last Mural in 2007 and the sequel, The Writing on the Wall filmed entirely in Washington, has been picked up by TG4 with a transmission date to be announced. Soup Stone is also in development for a further documentary project for TG4 and filming has already started on this. Over the last three years the project has also completed documentary projects about a mining community in Roscommon, a special needs theatre troupe in Derry, Carers in Fermanagh, a rock musician from Cork and sporting achievements in Tyrone. These programmes really give you a sense of the diversity of rural life in the West, said Cyril Kelly. Although the Window on the Westproject is now over, Cyril is optimistic about Soup Stones future and film production in the West.