Hello_Gangster

Actually, our movie is total garbage.

Indie-go?

We wore lav mics so the majority of the time people around us didn't even know we were shooting a movie, they just thought we were shooting still photos. We'd pretend we were like having a birthday party or something. Other times we'd just ask the wait staff if it was OK if we shot for five or ten minutes if we needed to.

We went in with the smallest amount of people needed and had a plan and just shot as fast as possible.

Yes, we did in fact submit to a lot of them, including all the big ones. It was a pretty disappointing experience. We don't have any big names in the film or official backing, so we felt that our submissions were overlooked. In fact, even here for a local festival in Dallas, after we submitted our movie we got a letter saying basically "thanks but no thanks for submitting your documentary" but our movie isn't even a documentary! So basically no one even watched it. Definitely was a learning experience. But, that's why we're here on reddit - we were pretty sad about it but just thought hey why not try to get our movie out directly to the people?

Anyway, basically a film festival is just a gathering of people watching films, no big deal! Anyone here have a big house and backyard that wants to screen our film? We'll show up! =P

The production budget was $1,500.

What do you mean by rampart?