One of the more frustrating aspects of the festival submission process is the seemingly arbitrary method by which films are selected. Since no one person has the time to watch the hundreds or thousands of films a festival receives, fests have to parcel out the preliminary aspects of screening to, at minimum, get the list down to a manageable size so the core programmers can make the final decisions. Often these people in the first line of defense are volunteers and, let's face it, they may or may not know what the hell they're doing.
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Thanks to lmcnelly15.blogspot.com for the lead.
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