Originally Posted by kane

Okay, this will be my last post in this thread. It has, as most Gideon threads, devolved into a useless sludge pile. The bottom line is that you, Gideon, are wrong. Your ego won't let you admit it and I'm not going to continue to spend time trying to convince you. It doesn't matter what I say, you will just change the criteria and speak a bunch of babbling bullshit to try to prove you are correct.

Here are the numbers.

In 2000 there were a total of 963 feature films submitted. Of those 254 of them were international movies. There were a total of 1,928 short films submitted.

In 2011 there were 3,812 total features submitted of which 1,869 were international movies. There were 6,467 short films submitted.

In 2000 the festival accepted 112 features and 65 shorts.
In 2011 the festival accepted 118 features and 81 shorts.

As you can clearly see that between 2000 to 2011 the number of features submitted nearly tripled yet they only have 6 more films accepted. The number of shorts also more than tripled and they only have 16 additional shorts accepted.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that the competition has increased.