Rejection letter from the Austin Film Festival:

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Dear Jeffery,

Thank you for submitting your film, Ungirlfriendable, to the 2007 Austin Film Festival Film Competition. It is a great accomplishment to simply complete a film, and I applaud you for your achievement.

The quality of the entries this year was extraordinarily high across all of our categories. Regretfully, I must inform you that your film was not selected for screening in the 2007 Festival.

As you know, the judging of a film is a subjective process. Over the course of an eight day event there are a very limited number of spaces for screening and this limits us on the number of films we can potentially screen. Additionally, not every film fits into the overall program of any individual festival, which is dictated by the films received that year. Your films performance in this competition should not be viewed as a statement about the films possible success elsewhere. In my experience, a film sent out to many festivals will find its audience.

I hope that you will continue to pursue filmmaking and you will submit to the Austin Film Festival in the future. I wish you all the best with this film and with your next creative endeavors.

Good luck,

Jesse Trussell
Film Competition Programmer
Austin Film Festival