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There comes a time in the history of a nation where the values and the traditions which are part of the very fabric of our being implores us to reconnect to our roots, to restore our principles and to recapture the very essence of what our traditional family values were based upon in the founding of America.

The Grand Traverse Bay Film Festival which exemplified Faith, Freedom and Family as the hallmark themes of its movies that were shown also helped to point out that Hollywood and the movie makers, the film distributors, the actors and actresses, the production companies and all those whose jobs and careers are devoted to providing America and the world with solid entertainment needed a true connect with America's Heartland.

In many ways the millions of American families and American viewers also needed a direct connection with their on-screen and behind the screen actors, directors and all those who make up the Hollywood industry that is just beginning to re-emerge into a new, better more responsive Hollywood that hears, listens, and is concerned about what values they display on the Silver and Small Screen.

Although there were many discussions underway over the past year or so, the Traverse Bay Film Festival and the movie makers and distributors as well as the film festival officials, agreed there was an immediate need for a vehicle which was committed to truly two-way communication between Hollywood and the Heartland of America, which was more than an infrequent reaction to liberal Hollywood liberalism and the latest wild statement to come from an actor or actress. They and others felt it had to be much, much more than that.

What they and others over the course of the year were describing and were building a growing consensus around was the need for the emergence of a "New Hollywood" which would be coupled with the old traditional values we celebrate in our homes and communities. These visionaries saw a new exciting trek which all Americans in the Heartland could embark upon in this new 21st Century journey to recapture America's Heartland.

What will this new revolution look like and who will be the new heroes and who is in charge? All of these are sound and justified questions with fairly simple yet incredibly apropos answers.

Do you remember the excitement you felt when as a young child you poured through novels and stories on some of the exciting and sometimes thrilling accounts of those individuals who exhibited true profiles of courage? Their stories lit up your imagination and sometimes they lit up the Silver Screen as well.

These were the women and men who gave their lives along the timeline of our nation's young developing history, who cemented their contributions in our young fertile imaginations. They decided to stand for something that their children and the future generation of Americans could inherit. It was a last legacy that they left for you and I.

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