sonszabitches...

Well, there's another festival A Cowboy's Silver Lining didn't get into. The HiLo festival in San Francisco decided not to invite us. I went through their list of accepted films. Most of them are short films. The longest film is 73 minutes. The next film of length is 58 minutes. The closest film to that is 38 minutes. Technically there might be 2 films considered to be feature length films. Apparently the entire festival is a short film festival. There is a film that they accepted that is 1 fucking minute long. One minute. That's not a film. That's a commercial. That's a single shot. Most of the films are somewhere around 3 minutes long.
There was nothing on their application that made any mention of this being a "short film festival." There was also nothing on the application that said "out of towners need not apply." Oh, they took my application fee, and probably didn't even watch the damn DVD or take a look at the press-kit. If I had known that this festival would have been a waste of my time and money, I wouldn't have even worried about entering... and I guess I'll know that next year.
For those interested... call ahead before you send them your money. Do as much research on the previous film festivals as possible. Find out where the accepted films are from. Do your homework because there are a lot of people just looking for money to fund their festival. They'll all cash your checks and leave the information and vague as possible.
One minute? You call that a film?