A Working Actor's Lament (Chapter 36)

A REEL Disappointment

Well, we finally got work about our acceptance into the Chicago REEL Short Festival and it was not good:

Dear Sean Spence,

Thank you for submitting your film "Lucidity"to the Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival.Unfortunately we have only so many screenings available and manygood films were unable to make the program.Your film was not one of the 100 films selected for this yearsfestival.We do hope your film has a wonderful festival life and encourageyou to consider submitting your future award winning films to ourfestival in upcoming years.

Best Wishes,

Scott and Nels

It was actually funny; I have been trying to contact them for a couple of weeks with no response at all. I was seeing a lot of my MySpace friends get accepted and yet no one was hearing about rejections. I assumed earlier in the week that no news was bad news.

Oh well, we are not doing that bad so far. Out of the 5 festivals we have heard from, we have been accepted into 2 (40% is not that bad in my book). We will be hearing from New York by the first of October and hopefully that will push us back up to 50%.