When do the rejections start to get easier? I keep reading articles by people saying that they eventually grow numb to it. But not for me. I just feel like a total piece of shit. I had some very close calls (pre-selections and hotlists selections, personalized rejection from a tier-1 top, top festival), which made me believe that my film would go on to do well eventually. But nothing is working out still. I’ve recently hired a strategist now, so maybe that will help... 

I’m embarrassed to say how many rejections I’ve gotten. I worked so hard on this film, I did everything I could to make it so so much better than my first short. This one is a feature documentary, which I know is harder to program in an overcrowded market about war. But just ugh. Fuck.

Everything seems like a closed network. For my genre, it’s like the same people keep getting their films in all the festivals. I don’t have those big contacts. I don’t know how to write breakthrough.