In order to get some more insight into the festival selection process I decided to speak to Steve Henderson as he is one of the co directors of MAF, and will know more about what helps get an animation selected for a festival. While he can only speak specifically for MAF, and other festivals will most probably have a different kind of selection procedure, his experience will help me determine subjects about my animation.
We discussed what little of an idea i had initially and asked him about portraying drugs in the animation and if that would affect whether it would be accepted into a festival. He then told me that effectively i could portray the most brutal or unacceptable events but the only thing affecting is acceptance would be if the story was good or not.
I found this a little disheartening as i wanted to focus more on the aesthetic quality rather than story but i think i will still be able to produce a good story along side the colourful visuals.
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