rejected

the faq about what that festival looks for and turns down was motivating. unforgivingly edit. crisp but simple camera work. polished lighting. coherent story. good acting. leave out the cliche motifs and egocentric filmmaking.

in general, i think the idea is that a film should have meaning. the actual technical making of a film can make a good film better and it can make a good film worse, but i don't think lighting/camera work/direction can turn a bad film into a good one. at a film's core, there must lie a moving, meaningful, and groundbreaking story or theme or moral of some sort. something has to be accomplished and emotion evoked.

as always, looks are important, so looking professional matters. if you're going to take the effort and pay the money to enter a film into a festival, put as much effort into sending you film as you sending into making it.