Left to proper: Evelyn Pigott-Washington for Windsor West MPP Lisa Gretzky , OAC Media Arts Officer Barbara Gilbert, Windsor West MP Brian Masse, MCFF board member Greg Baise, MCFF Assistant Director Jeremy Rigsby, MCFF Inventive Director Oona Mosna, MCFF board member Forest Juziuk, MCFF founder Chris McNamara, OTF consultant Tony Francis, MCFF board member Aaron Glasser, MCFF board member Cristina Naccarato (Picture by MCFF)
Windsor’s Media Metropolis Movie Competition has obtained greater than $400,000 in assist from federal and provincial companies, together with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Ontario Trillium Basis. This funding ensures that MCFF can proceed the superb world-class actions it has undertaken in Windsor-Essex since 1994.
The Ontario Authorities’s Ontario Trillium Basis supplied Media Metropolis Movie Competition with a $62,500 Resilient Communities Fund grant. Organizers say the grant will assist the competition’s twenty seventh on-line version, upcoming December ninth to the thirtieth, 2024. The competition will present the general public with free entry to greater than 70 movies, together with over 50 world digital premieres, from over 30 nations, that includes new works and restorations by native, regional, nationwide, and worldwide filmmakers and artists.
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“Media City Film Festival is a world-renowned annual event that celebrates artist driven cinema and digital art,” mentioned Lisa Gretzky, MPP for Windsor West. “For over 30 years, Media City Film Festival has consistently championed the works of emerging and established film makers, presenting barrier free programming to global audiences.”
Media Metropolis Movie Competition Inventive Director Oona Mosna says the competition was capable of attain over 320,000 native and international viewers members between 2020 and 2023.
The Ontario Arts Council can also be supporting the competition with a $121,325 grant over three years from the Authorities of Ontario’s Media Arts Competition program. That may permit the competition to current in-person actions. The competition has additionally entered into a brand new Market Growth partnership with the Ontario Arts Council, which can assist the competition with a further $15,000 grant in 2024 to create new movie productions.
The Canada Council for the Arts has additionally awarded the competition $208,000 from the Authorities of Canada by means of its Arts Festivals and Presenters program.
“Media City Film Festival is honoured to receive this vital support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts,” mentioned Mosna. “In times of crisis, and these days there seem to be a lot of them, people require access to artistic expression and the community that art creates.”
“This funding will ensure that MCFF’s globally recognized contributions to film culture can continue to have impacts in Windsor–Detroit and around the world.”
Media Metropolis Movie Competition’s twenty seventh version will likely be accessible on the competition’s web site from December ninth to thirtieth, 2024 at mediacityfilmfestival.com.
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