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Well, hello everybody. I'm Leonard Malton.

And I'm Jesse Malton.

You're listening to Malton on movies.

And today we are going to talk about film festivals, of which there are many. So many film festivals.

Barely a week goes by. The thing is, you'll start by making a joke. So you'll say something like,

oh, yeah, the Burbank Film Festival. Oh, there's a Burbank Film Festival. Then you also say,

yeah, right, like there's a North Hollywood film. There's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, you know, I swear for anything. But the, the thing is that there are tons of movies looking for an audience, looking for a place to be seen. I read a statistic last year.

I think I'm remembering this correctly.

I can't believe it, but I think I read this, that the Sundance Film Festival had something

like 10,000 submissions.

It was 10,000.

Do you remember they explain the drawer system that they use?

They have a tall thing of drawers, and the top is all of the movies, and then slowly, and then if people watch them and like them that they use. They have a tall thing of drawers and the top is all of the

movies and then slowly, and then if people watch them and like them, they move them down. So you go

from 10,000 to maybe 5,000 to maybe 2,000 to maybe, you know, a thousand. So think about the odds here.

Think about the odds. Ten thousand of these films have been made. Now, they have to be in fairly finished form to be submitted.

Yeah.

They'll submit them sometimes without the final score or without some of the visual effects finished

because they know that the people watching them understand that.

Yeah.

But essentially, they have been financed and written and directed and made and exist as films.

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