Stro

[Greg]

I might just share that with Peter. I had a long talk with him about the film the other night after he saw it. He's a bit upset I didn't leave the line in the movie where he professes love for Stro but did leave in the line where Peter called him an asshole. But he was very complimentary on the whole. He asked a lot of detailed questions about why I did certain things. It was a good ego stroke.

On the flip side, I'm deep in the Festival submission madness (post on that coming). For some of these small festivals or online festivals (I'm going with sketchy) they refer to themselves as IMDB qualifying festivals. Except, the only thing you need to 'qualify' to be on IMDB is a link to a trailer. But it is their selling point. Maybe it's different for features than it is for short films.

It gets a little seedy in some of the corners of the Festival world. I know my mother kept entering book contests that seemed solely to sell trophies and book stickers and tables at their events. Everyone was a winner. I had a similar situation on The Last Captain. We were told we won and if we wanted the award it was x dollars more. I think we were in the fourth tier out of five tiers, with five being the lowest. We could also download and print out a certificate. Granted if things get desperate, I'll be entering that festival again so I can put some festival laurels on my website.