This weekend's OtherWorldsATX will be filled with bittersweet moments for founder and festival director Bears Fonté, as it closes the book on nine years of the festival.
But even with that enthusiasm and returning audiences, the finances were tougher than ever."There's not as much funding out there," Fonté said,"and it's really hard to get funding for a non-profit that's not built around a social issue."
. Running two festivals is challenging, and Fonte said they increasingly realized that it was going to have be one or the other. Like Fonté's original idea to depart after a decade, the rest of the team was ready to step aside and the idea of just handing it off to a stranger seemed wrong,"so I guess I'm just handing it off to posterity."
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