Every filmmaker has been there.  You work hard on your film for months, sometimes years! It has everything.  Great editing, crisp sound, fantastic story and true actors.  You have a screening and the fans love it! Over the next few weeks you receive e-mails from actors wanting to be in your next film.  Letters from fans wanting to buy a copy of your film.  Then you pick a film festival to enter your film into.  This is the point in which every filmmaker sweats.  Will it be accepted? 

I have won some film festivals and sometimes my films were rejected but rejected for good reason!  The other films were better. Period.  What really urks me is when a clearly lower quality film gets accepted and your film with all of the best qualities does not.  Now when I say lower quality films I do not mean it to be by my opinion.  I mean when it's painfully obvious.  I think there has to be a little politics involved just like anything else.   

Well.  What's your take?