So most of you know that I've just finished my first short film. I'm assuming you know, anyway it turned out to be one of those bittersweet experiences.  That's a story for another day, but what I'd like to think is that, I learned and will grow from the experience.  So the next step on this journey was to submit More Cake to film festivals.  My original intention was to pick the top 10 and only submit to those, however I received a healthy dose of REALITY when a fellow filmmaker showed me the list of festivals he had submitted to since last year.  He was over the 100 mark and still going. "It's a numbers game, and you have to develop very thick skin,"  he advised me.  I understood what he meant when the first rejection hit my inbox, the searing pain in my chest caught me by surprise, [...]