Top 4 Reasons Why A Movie Will Receive A Film Festival Rejection - Daniel Sol

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[@alohaarianna]

I have been a judge at multiple film festivals & it usually comes down to originality and the style of storytelling.

[@bluejasmine206]

Hi. I need to ask some questions. I want to enter my film for a festival and I read a rule stating a film cannot be shown on the internet. If a put like short trailers of my film for marketing purposes , will it be disqualified?

[@cameronleehorace]

@@bluejasmine206 Trailers do not count as the film so that is fine. Also most festivals these days don't require premiere status so uploading online will be fine just check the rules of the festivals you want to submit. But what do I know I'm here too on a video of festival rejection when my film is getting rejected lol

[@devernepersonal3636]

This is the most quality channel ever. Each video is straight to the point, and you end up getting even more than the main point in the best ways. the person interviewing the guests has a very lovely voice that is enjoyable to listen to, and it truly does make us all feel a big more courageous. ya'll rock.

[@FugueState1]

Why was your film rejected? Most likely because the festival took your money and never watched it.

[@roblinnbailey2359]

Tim McC all the big festivals have chosen the films before they open for submissions, it’s just a money making scam.

[@filmselparaiso6263]

Lol ya

[@whybecuzporque4655]

Wait how true is this? Lol

[@johncharlesgerald8247]

Amen to that!

[@Daniel-hs6ct]

Tim McC lmfaooo

[@Photographicelements]

I just watched all the videos! You have great content and video is rewatchable!

[@kos6654]

Interesting how much he focuses on being unforgettable and the technical aspect of the film instead of the actual story being good

[@mukiwabanda2794]

Primer won grand jury prize at Sundance in 2004 and that was a $8,000 super low tech film. However that was 15 years ago and I wonder if today's admins and judges on the festival and grant circuit could even identify good stories over Social Justice themes.

[@InformantNet]

Why is that interesting? Film is a visual medium. If it's objectively poorly made because of bad acting, bad cinematography, bad editing, badly written dialogue, who cares if the story is "good"? The film is the execution of the story. Take ROMEO AND JULIET, as an example. That's the "story" of 1987's CHINA GIRL, an objectively awful movie in every way - technical and otherwise, and then compare that to 1961's WEST SIDE STORY, which is the same "story." You can't make a good narrative film with a bad story, but you can make a bad narrative film with a good story.

[@mukiwabanda2794]

InformantNet Because Story will always trump technical execution.

[@InformantNet]

​@@mukiwabanda2794 I was responding to Ko S, however, your comment that "Story will always trump technical execution" is silly and wrong.

[@mukiwabanda2794]

So go film paint drying in 4K with 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound and call it a movie.

[@Photographicelements]

Great video, very helpful!

[@helenmurray3276]

The quote Daniel Sol is trying to remember, reminded me of something Werner Herzog said about the responsibility of both documentary filmmakers and as audience members, "we must not avert our gaze"

[@Photographicelements]

I love the HollyShorts festival!!

[@filmcourage]

HollyShorts is fantastic.

[@blainemarcano]

Very insightful. Almost forces you to distill your individuality and execute it well.

[@jbl7092]

If the film festivals don't want to see more of the same kind of movie, why do the major players keep making the same movies (i.e. CIA/military/police/violent crime dramas with basically no character development) Those subjects are getting really old. Just sayin.

[@LadderProductionFilms]

The film the interviewer may be mentioning is Room (2015).

[@convolution223]

when i saw that comment i thought you were talking about the unforgettable Wiseau classic: The Room.

[@Photographicelements]

@@convolution223 I believe they mean the Brie Larson film.

[@MrArtist1971]

I find it hard to believe that THOUSANDS of film submissions are being viewed. How do you know? I've judged contests and seriously there are so MANY that people give it a cursory glance and if it sucks you move on. Fact.

[@roberterniso5475]

It's best to submit your film as early as possible.

[@RLScottWonderStudios]

Great information. I'm creating something super unique and looking to play the festival circuit soon.

[@nickpastorino5370]

Super unique? That's what they all say.

[@anthg4563]

@@nickpastorino5370 exactly lmao

[@alexman378]

How did that go?

[@GeoffreyPheasantFilm]

Good advice. Thank you.

[@filmcourage]

Glad it was helpful!

[@cahiers2cinema]

Great advice

[@Psyclonus7]

Been to a hollyshorts festival. it's the usual stuff. nothing stands out. they play it super safe. one year they played this weird 11 minute slideshow of weird art with this creepy loud, screamy music over it. somehow, that got played.

[@DialloMoore503]

ENVY can be another reason you get rejected. Programmers may envy your talent and wish to not see you make it. It’s reality.

[@3oxisprimus848]

That's deep

[@Blackmiel]

But they want good movies to sell tickets... (?)

[@InformantNet]

If your film looks like you shot it with your friends over a weekend, that might be why it was rejected.

[@mukiwabanda2794]

That's exactly what Blair Witch project and Joss Whedons Much Ado About Nothing look like though (because it literally was shot with friends over a weekend) But people like Whedon have the right connections

[@Blackmiel]

@@mukiwabanda2794 thats 1/100000000

[@JurijFedorov]

I would love to have his job.

[@MatthewWagnerFilms]

This guy seems like he’s related to Vince Vaughn 😂

[@shahmeermadni]

Does anyone know the film the interviewer talks about at 9:45?

[@meshachshakes]

I'm about to submit my film to a festival. I don't have the budget to pay for music licensing so I'd like to know. Are film festivals strict with music copyright?

[@SteveSmith-ze5mw]

Yes. They’ll reject it if you’ve used unlicensed music. You might get away with it but it’s been in all the guidelines I’ve ever seen.

[@Flare12234]

just make a film like Andrei Tarkovsky and use natural sound bruh

[@rupomsreel4835]

I make Art+Commercial 4 story typ short film. Should i Send to Festival??

[@jasonbardsley644]

Which lenses do most film makers say is their go to?

[@filmselparaiso6263]

The best you can afford, the sigma art is really popular right now were using the canon cne 18-80 but i think im going to get a canon cne 24 or 35mm this year

[@rezjrprod]

I've recently got into using vintage lenses

[@ahmedhashmi3584]

Wtf film courage! There is a commercial literally every 2 minutes...

[@rodrocketon9480]

The number 1 reason a film will be rejected is because the film festival circuit is a racket. If you think your film is truly being treated the same as film with semi-famous person in it or behind it, you are kidding yourself. The math is pretty simple. The entry fees of most of the filmmakers, whose films basically have no shot, pay for the whole thing.

[@ajtaylor8750]

I've never been afraid to go all out in terms of my storytelling and film-making. In a time where "cancel culture" and postmodernism is thriving, anything you say will be used against you in the court of public opinion, and it has led to many artists sugarcoating their message to avoid backlash. I think we as creatives and artists should trump all of that and say what we want to say because people need to stop being so soft when it comes to the truth being stated. We live in troubling times right now, so it's really the best time to spread your wings and fly with your storytelling, even if it makes people uncomfortable.

[@L1623VP]

Make art, not apologies. George Orwell famously said, "If freedom has any meaning at all, it's the right to tell people what they don't want to hear."

[@alexman378]

lcowles Yeah, but that type of leftist SJW culture is the closest thing we have to fascism right now, if you do anything semi controversial, they’ll drag your name through the mud, and if you don’t comply and apologize in public, they blacklist you and you won’t find work anymore.

[@3oxisprimus848]

You have little idea how important your comments is to me. Very important and very true.

[@seankelly378]

@@alexman378 Let's not forget that Orwell was himself a socialist .Also we literally still have fascism so stfu

[@alexman378]

@@seankelly378 I always enjoy people who’ve never experienced true fascism talk about it like that, it’s kind of cute.

[@osaaduny]

the comments are just as good as the advice on video

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

Here's another original film: it's half hardcore pornography interspersed with tutorials on how to install and operate Windows 10. I mean, seriously: how hard is that? Coming up with original ideas AND COMBINATIONS of PREVIOUS ideas is EASY.

[@riffbaama]

😂😂😂

[@nathankirk2554]

Any London directors in need of an actor?

[@isobignugget7497]

I have a story that I am 100 % sure would get submitted, but since I don't have any film making experience, I feel that the story may forever be untold. Who knows, Maybe I can pick some pointers up around here and one day shoot this thing.

[@scotmcfox8908]

I have found that PC obsessed people who operate in the Film biz know very little about Cinema!

[@evaknievel4449]

I run a film festival, most of you guys won't admit you don't have the time to watch all subs. Stop accepting subs early and open an allocated amount of slots. Be honest and have a real film festival, A WrestleMania of indi films.

[@fliesonthewall-avirtuosoparty]

bring back "silent" movies and don't colorize. for a year. or long enough to get us desensitized and unjaded.

[@jesusyessir1304]

He looks like Eminem

[@moinkhan3744]

Ok blind guy

[@astralnight3493]

More like Aseop Rock

[@adam9595]

???

[@DavidMatias79]

He looks like he ate Eminem. Or like he eats a lot of M&Ms

[@213kidangel]

He forgot any Pro-Christian subject matter.

[@frank-du4qg]

Any suggestions on good films with Pro christian subject matter?

[@213kidangel]

@@frank-du4qg Lord of the Rings, Nights of Cabiria, the Mission, Trains Plains and Automobiles, the Passion, Apocalypse now, Darby O’Gill, Raging Bull, Big Night, The Gods must be Crazy, Samson and delilah (1950s version), City Lights, Amadeus, Pan y Vino, My Fair Lady, the Princess Bride, Lord of the Flys (I don think the LOTF movies are that good from the little i’ve seen- but the story is awesome)

[@VincentStevenStudio]

I'm guilty of this. The last short I made was completley unoriginal. The story was very similar to A Quiet Place but not as good. The similarities were a coincidence because I wrote it and started shooting it before A Quiet Place was announced. Once I submitted, A Quiet place had come out already. It was also 26 mins, too long for a short. It didnt get in anywhere incase you're wondering. I was dissapointed but years later I can see why it was rejected.

[@GDSprodify]

Thanks for your invite, and keep going no matter what. I’m going through the same thing as well.

[@vauchelldearmas2567]

L

[@roblinnbailey2359]

Also make sure your film is about the latest leftie social issue.

[@jeremygawronski231]

To win awards of course ;) It does bother me that many of these films are about human rights and get thrown into the Lefty box.

[@LycanVisuals]

If that's the case I'm out of luck then 😂

[@filmselparaiso6263]

Ya huh

[@DialloMoore503]

You’re not very bright if you think that guarantees acceptance into a film festival. Your idiotic comment only tells us that it’s YOU that has an agenda that’s political.

[@L1623VP]

...AND as "diverse" as possible. NO all-White casts allowed, even if it's a historical drama. That would be "oppressive".

[@lmnop7098]

Yeah, this conversation is all good but has this guy ever created anything? If not his opinion is worthless.

[@alenabayti5622]

It is like send me for submit 100dollars and I will send 5000t d for Winer !!!randomly but I will receive 500000td ha ha most of USA film irrelevant boring plot foolishness

[@alexman378]

What did you even write here...?

[@break2262]

The more movies rejected the less time is wasted. I would happily reject 10 times more movies than this guy has 👿

[@adamhfilms]

So I have to make a film about someone getting raped in order to get into a good festival?

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

I got an original story that I have NEVER seen in any movie: a movie with a strong pro-antintalist theme: where breeders are the villains for breeding. Carnists meat-eaters are the villains. The war veteran or cop with the sick kid in the hospital is NOT a hero because she/he forced that kid into existence to suffer & die, as ALL breeders/parents are. Where overthrowing the USA or other currently existing governments is the right moral justified thing to do. I DARE/CHALLENGE anyone calling themselves "Film Courage" to accept a film with messages like THAT.