Rejected!!

so I've decided to submit my films (actually I made this decision in December but whatever) to film festivals. It's wonderful to see you're stuff on a big screen and what better way to get it onto one (with a real audience I might add) than in a film festival. So I've submitted PULP to three festivals so far
ASIFA (don't remember what the acronym spells out)
Newport Beach
LA Film Festival

,and I plan on submitting it two three or four more festivals.
Recently I heard back from ASIFA as to whether or not I was submitted

Dear Michael,

First, thanks much for submitting your work to ASIFA Portland's Spring
Showcase. We (the showcase jury) spent a lot of hours trying to
whittle a surprisingly strong batch of entries into a streamlined
program. We had the luxury of having a lot of animation to choose from
(including work from luminaries like Joanna Priestley, Teresa
Drilling, and Rose Bond) but also the chore of having to cut more than
a dozen good submissions. We won't be including your piece in the
final program, but hope you're already working on something to submit
next year. It's great to see new young talent step up in this field.
Thanks again!

Well thank goodness the good movies were accepted.
maybe my next movie will fair better and I still have two
more festivals to hear back from.
Just going to keep it positive.

And of course! news on Between Gentlemen. I've started animating certain scenes although I still need to figure a couple more things out (what three of the characters will look like and what the manor in the background will look like) but I'll get to that no worries.

wow this was a long post!