I just started seriously looking at festivals to submit my self-portrait in, and it is intense work. Honestly I don't have an emotional fear of rejection, it more a monetary fear of rejection. I feel that submitting without doing the proper research into festivals is like flushing 30 bucks down the toilet. Such a waste. So now I'm paranoid that I'm going to waste a bunch of money. If my film is accepted to two out of five festivals, which apparently is a good ratio, then I've basically just flushed $90 (assuming the festivals have about a $30 fee). I'm broke and 90 bucks means a lot of things to me.
I finally got around to making an email address specifically for my films and a withoutabox account. Those two actions were the catalyst to my long festival research fiasco that was my Sunday. I'm glad that our class already did a lot of research for me, that has been big help.
I suppose I'll just have to bite the bullet on this one, and spend the money. My festival savings jar only has single bills in it, hopefully they will have 20 dollar babies sometime soon.
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