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Response 1: <br />Project/Event <br />Description* <br />The Ellensburg Film Festival (EFF) is a three-day arts event that brings film lovers <br />from across the region to Ellensburg. The Festival offers a variety of films- <br />features, documentaries, shorts-at various times throughout the weekend. <br />Always on the first full weekend of October, the Festival screens films in the <br />Mcconnel Theatre complex Central Washington University's campus and, on <br />Saturday, at the Hal Holmes Center at the Ellensburg Public Library. <br />This year, the opening film is the award-winning Eighth Grade. We will close our <br />Festival with Inventing Tomorrow, preceded by a short film about Ellensburg's own <br />Nerdy Girls. <br />The specific tourism market we target includes film lovers from across the region. <br />We also invite film talent from to the Festival and they come from all over the <br />country and, from time to time, from out of the country. <br />We are requesting lodging tax funding for promotional activities in markets outside <br />Kittitas County. The funds requested will be used to purchase paid advertising in <br />publications and on websites reaching people throughout the Pacific Northwest. <br />The Seattle Entertainer, NPR and regional radio stations are some of the places we <br />promote the Festival. <br />2500 character lirrit <br />List of Intended Use of Funds* <br />Advertising and promotion <br />21 Projections of Increased Tourism <br />Please provide the followng estimates of how any money received wll result in increases in the number of people <br />traveling for business or pleasure on a trip: <br />1. Away from their place of residence or business and staying overnight in paid accommodations; <br />2. To a place fifty miles or more away from their place of residence or business for the day or staying overnight; <br />3. or from another country or state outside of their place of residence or business. <br />You must provide the evidence utilized in determining your projections. <br />Response 2.1 : <br />Projection* <br />Response 2.1 : <br />Evidence* <br />1. Away from their place of residence or business and staying overnight in paid accommdations; <br />The Ellensburg Film Festival offers films that would not otherwse be shown in <br />Ellensburg or even in this region. We actively seek Washington-made films, <br />independent films from all over the IM'.lrld and award-wnning films we discovered at <br />other Festivals. We advertise our Festival and our films in magazines and <br />newspapers aimed at audiences who enjoy the arts and films. Underwriting NPR <br />shows and public service announcements on other radio stations is another way we <br />advertise the Festival to out-of-town visitors. <br />We anticipate one-third (50 people) of Festival goers stay overnight in Ellensburg <br />and most stay in hotels. The Festival pays for hotel rooms for film talent and this <br />flu cu ates from 6 to 13 rooms a night during the Festival. <br />2500 character linit <br />The evidence we use to determine our projections includes information on people <br />who attended past Festivals. In 2017, will had attendees complete printed surveys <br />to give us information on how far they traveled, if they stayed all night, etc. We also <br />had conversations wth Festival goers and looked at ticket sales data to see where <br />the people purchasing tickets live. <br />2500 character lirrit