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Good movie but grossly overrated

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

As someone who has visited a couple of film festivals, I have always been curious about how they find the films for the festivals. This film lets you in on some of the secrets and shows you just how competitive it is. It's interesting, but only really for hard-core indie film fans. You could probably add another star or two, if you're a filmmaker yourself and this is more your milieu.

I was one of the few who endured this movie at the Phoenix Film Festival- which, big surprise, is largely featured in this mediocre film.The root of this film is what other reviewers seem to be ignoring- it's about trying to get the film TEN TILL NOON into festivals, and TEN TILL NOON is quite simply a bad film. Netflix it and see if you disagree.So you have the filmmakers, the director and writer, trying to get it into festivals. Who cares? We sure didn't. Certainly not after the forced pep rally that the head of the Phoenix Film Festival tried to lead.The whole event made us a. want to avoid film festivals, especially sad little local ones who court bad movie makers thinking we'll find value in them and b. never see a movie made by Paul Osborne again.The quality of the film is poor. Some of the interviews are fairly interesting, but I guarantee you can find a brief interview with Kevin Smith et al on youtube in under 10 minutes- saving your time and money.

Funny and great if a bit overlong towards the end. Very revealing and intimate doc about the filmmakers own personal struggle in bring their film to the world. I was shocked to see just how much everything costs and emotionally,perhaps the price is too high. One poor gut seemed to have buy tickets to his own film in some festival just to stop them form taking it off and replacing it with another. Jeesh - what's that all about?! Poor them and thank god I'm not one!! My niece was thinking of becoming a director and on the way out she said no way! We did talk for a long time afterwards about it and if that is the mark of a well put together doc then they certainly succeeded there. A great film and we had a great night. Well done guys and keep shooting!

Just caught this amazing and brutally honest doc at the Hell's Half Mile Film Fest in Bay City, Michigan. And having worked the fest circuit with two features now, I can say this film rings so true that's it's almost painful to watch in places (and I mean that in a good way).This is the indie filmmaker's life, this is our humiliation, this is our reward, this is our freakin' angst! OFFICIAL REJECTION plays like the film companion to Chris Gore's Film Festival Guide. It covers the life (and sometimes death) of mainly one feature as it aims for Sundance, then reevaluates. As it aims for Slamdamn, then reevaluates. As it aims for SXSW, then...well you get the picture. And it's not all doom and gloom. (Well, OK, there is a film fest meltdown that has to be one of the most uncomfortable moments I've ever seen on film.) But...there is a (somewhat) happy ending here.If you have any plans to make a film, watch this movie! Learn from it. These are the rules of film festivals. Realize that you will not be the exception.I love OFFICIAL REJECTION. It is my life. If you are a filmmaker (or are close to any filmmakers), it is your life too!