The Centretown Movies Outdoor Film Festival (CMOFF) started a decade ago with the objective of using not-fully-utilized spaces around Ottawa centretown for cultural and artistic purposes. During 9 years of operation we brought the chance of having enjoyable entertaining experience to families and individual in centretown area. This was made possible by the efforts of our volunteers and support from the community particularly Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corporation (CCOC) which was our major sponsor. Since CCOC's role is to incubate local community projects by supporting them in their formative years, it is stepping back from the role of lead sponsor for CMOFF. Now it is time for Centretown Movies to find another sponsor to bring it forward in its second decade of operation. Because of our volunteer nature, the continuation of CMOFF depends the existence of another organization that can act as our sponsor and liaison with the city.
CMOFF is very small and self-sufficient financial entity but our operation requires another, more stable, entity to be the official organizer of the events. Major responsibilities of this organization is to apply for venue permit and city art funding, and cover our events through its insurance (although nothing has happened so far that requires a financial demand). CCOC has kindly agreed to allow us to use the equipment storage space, and also the equipments and existing funds which were originally made possible through CCOC efforts, provided there is a reasonable plan of action and a reliable sponsor.
We would like to ask all of you to help us keep CMOFF alive by finding an organization (community centres, schools, etc) willing to support us. More information is available if you have a candidate in mind.
Once again we would like to offer our most sincere gratitude to all of our supporters, especially CCOC for years of great collaboration. We hope we will be able to continue our festival in its second decade of operation by your kind support.

Best regards,
Ali Arya
For CMOFF