From: user6340@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   JTEM  posted:   
   >   
   > 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."   
      
   Let's wait for the regime change, and then you can   
   give an award the newly freed Iranian person who   
   submitted the film, giving out the brand new first   
   annual "Outstanding Free Iran Award."   
      
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