for me, it's a cool way to get feedback on your hard work. It used to be you'd have to enter no-frills film festivals, and you'd be lucky if they even LOOK at your stuff. Now, you can give yourself free promotion if you know how to advertise yourself, and in this day and age of Facebook and Twitter, advertising yourself isn't so hard.Just wondering why other people started? Was it because of bordem or money, free time or something else?!