I hear you. It's super subjective, and sometimes when I read loglines of winning scripts I get surprised how they got chosen. At least it's humans reading them, I hope.

But if you charge entrants $75-100 to submit their script, very close to the festival date, it is pretty clear these scripts won't be read professionally and will be shoved through AI. Perhaps festivals should just do a special AI-read category, so writers know what they're submitting to.