Despite billing this year’s festival as (probably) its last year, FilmfestDC isn’t giving up hope just yet.

The festival’s organizers will hold a meeting on May 6 to discuss the festival’s future. Earlier this month, Festival Director Tony Gittens said that the festival would need about $250,000 in order to continue and that the likelihood that someone would pony up that amount of cash was not very high. At the time, Gittens didn’t make any indication that FilmfestDC would pursue any fundraising initiatives and seemed content to hang it up after 28 years.

But it seems as though that’s not the case. Gittens and the FilmfestDC team is holding a meeting at the Goethe-Institut to discuss the future of the festival. “Many people have expressed concern about the future of the Washington, D.C. International Film Festival and the financial challenges it is facing. Simply put, it is a matter of raising enough funds to meet the escalating expenses associated with mounting Washington’s first and largest international film festival, and a contributor to the cultural vitality of the Nation’s Capital,” a description for the meeting reads.

The meeting notice also asks attendees to bring “a monetary donation of any amount,” and “actions you plan to take to assist the festival with raising much-needed funding.” A request for comment from Gittens was not immediately returned.