Background information: This year, each film submitted to the Barbizon Film Festival was submitted in one of ten categories  For each category, there was a panel that decided which submitted films to accept  Fact 1: Within each category, the rate of acceptance for domestic films was the same as that for foreign films
Fact 2: The overall rate of acceptance of domestic films was significantly higher than that of foreign films
In each of the past three years, the overall acceptance rate was higher for foreign than for domestic films, an outcome that had upset some domestic filmmakers.