05-28-2020, 12:36 PM
Back when I was a publisher ( 
), we did not accept simultaneous submissions, only simultaneous queries. No one paid attention to that. I'm not convinced that 90% of our freelancers ever even read our submission guidelines. Sometimes people would submit something that they already published (which wasn't nearly as funny as when people would submit rewrites of something I published years before). We contracted for First North American publishing rights.
All this being said, I imagine any film fest organizer is in the same boat as I was juggling multiple submissions. As a contributor, I wouldn't move until you have to do so. No need to tip your hand - or toss those dice before it's time. There's surely a deadline shuffle with submissions. If you jump the gun, you might just knock yourself out of both festivals. Just be patient.
), we did not accept simultaneous submissions, only simultaneous queries. No one paid attention to that. I'm not convinced that 90% of our freelancers ever even read our submission guidelines. Sometimes people would submit something that they already published (which wasn't nearly as funny as when people would submit rewrites of something I published years before). We contracted for First North American publishing rights. All this being said, I imagine any film fest organizer is in the same boat as I was juggling multiple submissions. As a contributor, I wouldn't move until you have to do so. No need to tip your hand - or toss those dice before it's time. There's surely a deadline shuffle with submissions. If you jump the gun, you might just knock yourself out of both festivals. Just be patient.
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