Buttons actioning in different movie clips?

So ive set up some buttons into a movie clip, but i want to get them performing actions in a movie clip that is within another clip.
For example, the code below is what I have attached to one of my buttons. The Movieclip 2photosMC2 is inside a DIFFERENT movie clip to the ones where the buttons are stored. How can I script so that the button actions activate the correct clip?
on(release){
photosMC.gotoAndPlay("img 02");
With the code above, photosMC is the movie clip i want to play and img 02 is within this. The button with this code in is in a different movie clip to the one in which photosMC is held
Any ideas?
Many Thanks
Dave

If you get away from attaching code to buttons you might find it easier to manage that targeting you will need to do. If you assign instance names to your buttons and movieclips, then you can have your code in the main timeline and assign the interaction to the objects from there. As an example, le's say you have a button named "gtn" inside a movieclip named "btnHolder" that sits on the main timeline. And you want to have that button tell a movieclip named "mc" that sits inside another movieclip named "mcHolder" that is also on the main timeline. Then in the main timeline you could use...
btnHolder.btn.onRelease = function(){
     mcHolder.mc.gotoAndPlay("img02");
To do it the way you want would require using _root or _parent targets, which is usually better to avoid...
on(release){
     _root.mcHolder.mc.gotoAndPlay("img 02");
or maybe...
on(release){
     _parent.mcHolder.mc.gotoAndPlay("img 02");

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