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Area Independent Arts Festival Receives Largest Contribution To Date

Windsor, Ontario – September 20th, 2010

Harvesting The FAM (Filmmakers/Artists/Musicians) Festival organizers are pleased to announce its largest monetary contribution to date. This contribution is of particular importance because it comes a business with no direct ties to the festival or its operation. In past years the downtown festival has operated with a modest budget that has come directly from spaces playing host to official events. Local mortgage team, Dan Burke and Robert Redmile, of Real Mortgage Associates have matched the festival’s entire operating budget allowing the festival grow, create a better experience for involved talents and fans alike as well as ensuring the festival’s operation in the future.

“Dan and I are excited to be a part of bringing together the business and arts community through this unique cultural event. We recognize FAM Festival as an essential part of our area’s art experience. We have so much talent in our community and want to ensure that this festival will have the means to showcase as many artists in 2010 and in years to come.”
Robert Redmile – Mortgage Agent

“I am ecstatic about this contribution, especially seeing it come from a business outside our usual sphere of sponsors. I really think it shows a dedication to the community we live in and the immense amount of cultural output Windsor-Essex County produces. Knowing that parties we don’t directly benefit see a value in the work we’re doing, it really gives our volunteer team a lot of motivation. ”
Murad Erzinclioglu – Festival Coordinator

Harvesting The FAM is Windsor, Ontario’s largest independent inter-arts festival designed for the promotion and development of Film, Artistic and Musical talents, working in any medium or genre. This year’s festival will take place October 1st-9th/2010 at a variety of venues and spaces transforming the downtown core of Windsor into a cultural mecca for the masses.

The Festival will act as a collective call to inform the people of Windsor, as well as communities throughout Canada, that creativity lives here. This, the 5th FAM Festival, will once again play home to over a hundred filmmakers, artists and musicians of all disciplines.The line-up looks to feature a great array of talent from Windsor, Detroit and Southwestern Ontario ranging from industry standard professionals to emerging creative talents.

With FREE entrance fees for fans and creative talents alike, the festival creates a positive, open-minded space, for a diverse array of artists to exhibit, promote, perform and sell their works.

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