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How to interpret festival rejection patterns when they contradict personal artistic judgment

My film got rejected from every festival I care about and accepted to ones I have never heard of and I do not know what that means about the work or my taste

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The disconnect between internal conviction and external reception challenges fundamental assumptions about artistic value.

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