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Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 9:42 PM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker Chris Passinault
The State Of The Tampa Indie Film Scene
I
remain amused by the antics of the Tampa indie film clique.
Really, I am quite amused. Basically, you have a group of amateurs who
aren't really accomplishing much
or progressing the Tampa indie film scene like they claim to be. Hell,
there isn't even a professional Tampa indie film community yet! Sure,
they will make that claim, that there is a professional Tampa indie film
community, but there isn't. You have this group of jackasses patting each
other on the back and attacking the few real professionals who are around,
and they are in their own little world.
Then we have the Tampa film festivals. What jokes. The ones which are
professionally produced are full of themselves, full of politics, and
exist to market the Tampa Bay market as a location for Hollywood film
productions at the expense of local Tampa indie filmmakers. Try telling
that to the local Tampa filmmakers, however. They are happy to be supportive
of the "big" Tampa film festivals, and don't bother asking questions
or looking at the big picture. They don't realize that they are being
used to market to their competition, and will only have themselves to
blame in the future when they lose investors, permits, and locations to
the big productions that they helped to lure here.
Attracting Hollywood here may be good for the city, but it's a mistake
for anyone trying to make films in Tampa Bay.
Last year, I questioned one of the Tampa filmmakers who had blindly supported
one of the big Tampa film festivals. He evaded my questions and never
gave me an answer. He attacked me and called me crazy because I dared
to question his involvement in the film festival. Today, he hates me,
but he is no longer supporting the film festival and is no longer on its
board. I wonder why? Could it be that I was right, and he finally realized
that he had made a mistake?
Then, we have the low-rent Tampa film festivals. You know, the ones that
are not professionally produced and are run and attended by indie film
fanboys and the Tampa indie film clique. Those are jokes, too, as you
are bored out of your mind by terrible films and only occasionally get
to see anything worth the trip. How unprofessional. How useless.
A local Tampa rag (read: boring, freebie newspaper) recently declared
an unprofessional monthly Tampa "film festival" to be the best
in Tampa Bay. Well, guys, you really don't have much to choose from, do
you? You're at the bottom of the barrel, and as far as I am concerned,
it is the only monthly film festival operating at this time. It wins by
default, and the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival has been outdoing
it for the last year and a half!
I
am glad to see that they are trying to make improvements to that monthly
Tampa film festival, however. Ever since my review of the flawed film
festival came out back in January, the "event organizers" have
been crying about it and have been forced to try to improve it. I hope
that they succeed, although I must say that moving it back to the original
venue is a change for the better. It's a start.
Just one thing, guys. You DO NOT have a SHOWCASE. Just because you label
it that does not make it one! You don't bother to screen your films and
show everything. Showing a bunch of amateur crap is far from a showcase,
and makes for a lame event. Oh, and I am into showcases. I even used the
word in marketing before any of you, and you started to use it after you
saw me do it. Everyone knows the true source of the ideas that you steal,
and it destroys what little credibility that you have.
Don't get me wrong, here. I've had fun at some Tampa film festivals, and
there are some good ones. Sunscreen is good (although it is getting a
little too Hollywood for me these days). I like Rick Danfords past film
festivals, too. These, however, are few and far between. 80% of all Tampa
film festivals are pretentious, political productions with hidden agendas.
Did I say that they are also fake, boring, and overhyped? I am now! This
is why I don't bother going to many of them.
Also, when was the last time that any of us saw a good film come out of
the Tampa indie film scene? Sure, I've seen a few, but I've seen many
more which are total garbage. People, we need more talented professionals
in the Tampa indie film scene and less of the insecure political posturing.
The continued "unprofessional" jabs about my criticism of their
lack of professionalism on the Tampa fanboy hate web site also amuse me
greatly. I am especially amused by the spineless cheerleading blogger
who blindly follows and supports the clique and who is cybersquatting
on my name for some
weird reason. I guess that they can't compete with real professionals.
I suppose that I will quit ranting about the deplorable state of Tampa
film festivals and the Tampa indie film scene once I get around to producing
my own Tampa film festivals and my own Tampa indie films. They are coming,
but that's all I can say. I would like to write more, but the Tampa indie
film clique reads all of my web sites and blogs and I am not in business
to publish ideas that they will steal and plagiarize.
Soon, I will show these jokes how it's done, and they will all scramble
to try to catch up and compete with me and my professional associates.
I am glad that I am not the only professional who is over all of this.
There are many who feel as I do, and we're on great terms.
Hey, did any of the Tampa indie film clique see any of my many television
interviews and my models and talent doing television appearances in the
past year? Why is it that none of them mention any of these things publicly?
Discrimination, perhaps? Well, they may say one thing, but they all know
what the real deal is. Perhaps that is why they all are so insecure and
unprofessional. I call them as the are, people. I don't kiss ass and I
don't play politics. Deal with it!
Well, I have to run. I will be working on the next-generation Tampa Bay
Film Tampa Online Film Festival. It should be even better than the last
success, and will be very important for other reasons which I cannot disclose
yet.
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