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Sunday, November 23, 2008 - 8:00 AM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival Updated
The
Tampa Bay Film Online
Film Festival has been updated. We did some upgrades and added 14
new films to our film festival. We now have a total of 35 indie films
available on our online film festival, and over 60 in reserve that will
soon be converted to the new format and made available for a total of
over 100 films next month.
We also did some additions to Tampa
Bay Film. Joe Davison made the cover. I can hear the complaints now;
from those who think that Joe Davison isn’t worthy of a Tampa Bay
Film cover, who are the majority, to the minority buzzing in because Joe
may not want to be associated with Tampa Bay Film. Hey, if he wants to
be removed, I’ll have him taken down from the site, but since Tampa
Bay Film is the best read site in the Tampa indie film market, he might
not want to undermine the best promotion that he’ll ever get. Personally,
I didn’t want to give him press, although I am a professional. It
made a good cover.
Now, I don't want to go out of my way to help promote certain people,
but I have to be the bigger professional. Tampa indie films are Tampa
indie films, and I'm fair and objective. If a film is good, I'll be the
first to give credit were credit is due. For example, although I have
issues with Pete and Paul and their questionable politics (and I do not
think that 99 is a good film by any means), they did make an excellent
film with "The end is blossoming". I rather enjoyed it, and
it is one of the best indie films to come out of the Tampa Bay film market.
Speaking of the brothers, I was fiddling around with the online film festival
and checked out the domain names branded at the end of their film trailer.
Did cybersquatters steal one of their domains?
I've had it happen twice to me, and I feel for them. I wouldn’t
wish it on anyone. Word to the wise- once you obtain a domain name, keep
on top of it. If it lapses, you could lose it to bastards who will take
it and try to sell it back to you at insane prices. Take my Frontier Society
web site. There was an error changing it from one registering company
to another, and cybersquatters snagged it and tried to sell it back to
me for thousands. I solved the problem by adding a hyphen to the domain
name and obtaining Frontier-Society.Com. With the cybersquatters still
holding on to the old one, and with me not branding anything or marketing
with it, at least it's safe from competitors trying to obtain a variant
of my marketing domain name. Food for thought. You can spin things anyway
that works for you. You might have lost the old domain name, but at least
your competitors are blocked from it, too.
It still sucks for you, however, if you have branded that domain name
in your indie film promotional trailers.
Still, cybersquatters are assholes. The same goes for potential stalkers
who dot com your name. At lease I am very good at coming up with excellent
domain names which no one else has (Tampa modeling and talent agencies,
I hear, are still pissed at their web people because I obtained, and own,
TampaModelingAgency.Com and TampaTalentAgency.Com- cybersquatters tried
to obtain the modeling one before I did, but because they didn't know
how to spell, or perhaps they did a typo when they registered it, they
own a useless domain name, and I own the real one - anyone want to buy
TampaModellingAgency.Com for $299.00? I didn’t think so. Ha ha-
you win some, and lose some). I own almost fifty domain names, and most
of them are active web sites with top search engine presence. I consider
domain names to be commodities, as they are quite valuable (I’ll
sell the two agency domain names for no less than $30,000.00 each, for
those who are interested. Did you know that I was offered over $10,000.00
for IndependentModeling.Com once, and I turned down the offer?). Could
it be that I am becoming a type of cybersquatter? I hope not.
Which reminds me. 100TearsMovie.Com is expiring now. I don’t want
it. I’m not renewing it (I got it for Joe and offered it to him
free of charge a few months ago). Anyone interested had better snag it
before the cybersquatters get it. You can go to GoDaddy and get it for
less than $10.00 now, or you can wait and pay the cybersquatters over
$1,500.00 for it later. All my domain names are high profile, and they
have a high risk of being taken by cybersquatters, so if you want it,
get on it.
Ah, Paul sent me a letter last night. He gave me permission to do the
review of the Tampa Film Review and to write 10,000 words about him every
week. Um, ok. Paul, it just seems like I'm doing that. Just because I
write about something does not mean that I am obsessed with it. I write
about things because they are there, and, for now, some of your projects
are the main game in town- it’s not like there is much else going
on. I am really getting away from commenting about you. It's just taking
time because there is so much to comment on, although I really don't think
that you are as significant in the Tampa film scene as you think you are.
Well, you did do well with The End Is Blossoming. Keep it up, and you
might just make it.
Don't you just love how the truth is lost and misunderstandings flourish
in an environment of poor communication?
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