SHORT CUTS: Ali The Don "Arab Blood" Music Video

It seems that Windsor film makers are getting more actively involved in the city's music scene, partially due to the increasing amount of awareness brought on by events such as The Windsor International Film Festival and Harvesting The FAM Festival, and by such contests as WAMM Magazine's upcoming Video Contest (winners announced at preview screening/one-year anniversary at Phog on Thursday April 2nd).

But mainly because the benefits are mutual.

One such film maker who has been working alongside local musicians for years is Gavin Michael Booth. Founder of Mimitec Productions, aside from local videos and feature films, he's been working diligently on his "How Many Days?" video project where he's recording daily (almost video blogging) his quest to meet his twelve film making inspirational heroes (including Kevin Smith, Bryan Singer and Harry Knowles). And while it may seem like a monumental challenge, he's actually met some of them, so he's proving this is working.

His latest project is with local hip-hop artist Ali The Don, and it was filmed here in Windsor, using Windsor extras and Windsor locations. Once again, a great job by Gavin Michael Booth, and it's nice to see Windsor's hip-hop community getting active on a greater scale. Despite their being a great amount of talent in this city, it seems that its the scene that is often most neglected or underpromoted outside of their own circles - many venues simply don't book them and some of those that have been often aren't prepared for full on live experiences. Let's hope Ali can take the exposure from this and launch himself to a great career, helping to blaze the Windsor trails further after such great work by artists such as MicLordz & Sauce Funky, J-Reno/Academy, the whole Goddspeed crew and the efforts of DJ Needle.

Here's the video for "Arab Blood", directed and edited by Gavin Michael Booth, by Ali The Don.