From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   Will the Steven be mad at me?  I mean, even more so than   
   my Alternatively Charming personality usually invokes?   
      
   WE GOT A FILM FROM IRAN!   
      
   Unpaid though. It's actually illegal for us to receive a   
   payment from Iran. Not that their currency is convertible,   
   with all the sanctions. But they are not allowed to pay   
   us. And me being me, I sort of screwed up.   
      
   See, I would never have given them a waiver code EXCEPT   
   that I believed (for whatever reason) that they were   
   submitting a screenplay.   
      
   Screenplays don't cost us money. They're a real pain in   
   the ass. It's hard to get judges to read them, they take   
   forever and it's genuinely difficult, most times to   
   distinguish a good screenplay from the bad.   
      
   Remember:  A GOOD Director makes a good film. He gets a   
   good screenplay, assembles a good cast, a good crew and   
   he makes a good film. But, a GREAT Director makes a film   
   great!  It's not WHAT he does, it's HOW he does it!   
      
   So give the same script to two different directors and,   
   yes, one can produce a masterpiece and the other can   
   produce crap. Same screenplay. Wildly different results.   
      
   So screenplays are a pain in the ass!  No one wants to   
   judge them, if anyone thinks it's easy that probably means   
   you don't want them judging them, and they take up a lot   
   of time... reading a 100+ page screenplay...   
      
   But they don't cost us anything. We don't need to rent a   
   theater for screenplays. We, instead, invite the authors   
   to the screenings...   
      
   BUT IT WASN'T A SCREENPLAY!   
      
   Nope. I was thinking it was a screenplay so I never so   
   much as asked to look at it. I just gave them the waiver.   
      
   And it's a film.   
      
   And it's a 15 minute film!   
      
   If we put this in, we have to throw out 3 five minute   
   films to make the room!  We have to throw out 5 three   
   minute or less films to make the room... for an unpaid   
   submission.   
      
   I hate that. I really do.   
      
   But we have a film from Iran.   
      
   I was thinking we could create & award it the "Steven   
   Douglas Alter Award for Outstanding Islamist Regime."   
      
      
      
      
      
      
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