One of the things we have discovered in the last month or so, is that as assumed, Tier 2 and 3 festivals seem to be running a pretty ethical and fair ship. According to several filmmaker and producer friends of ours, 2nd and 3rd tier festivals including the Garden State Film Festival (which premiered the no budget DVD distributed festival hit Four Dead Batteries) , the Sexy International Film Festival, the Staten Island Film Festival, and several others we have heard about seem to be straight up and fair - blindly accepting (without any "connection" into the festivals), actually watching, and inviting films they like or that have interesting stories or cinematic approaches to screen at their festivals. This is particular refreshing, as the news and further exposition of most of the top tier film festivals has been rather disturbing as well as enlightening. Star studded, Hollywood fashion shows that were once top tier film festivals have caused several filmmakers to revolt in a way - even to go as far as telling the readers of their blogs or profiles to bypass them entirely - which is kind of a cool and refreshing reaction within itself.
Its good to know that this lack of fairness doesnt apply to all film festivals, and just as suspected, (although not perfect) several of these tier 2 and 3 film festivals still run pretty fair operations, and seem to remember what made them want to create their film festivals to begin with - to provide a way to celebrate their love for the art of cinema and share them with other like-minded people.
Cheers to them!
http://www.gsff.org/
http://www.sexyfilmfest.com/
http://www.sifilmfestival.org/
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