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Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 8:00 AM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
A Welcome Change In Tampa Indie Film
Ah. These are
exciting times in Tampa indie film, and I am very happy about what is
going on. The Tampa indie film
clique is in full retreat, and their film festival hideout is in shambles.
Their last refuge, a hate site message board, is in decline, and soon
their only outlet will be a self-proclaimed film blogger and twittering
emails between their scattered members.
It’s a pity, however, that I now have all of the readers of a certain
film blog, and they are happy that I am telling them how it really is
instead of reading blogs from some lady who is endlessly blowing smoke
and promoting people who, in my opinion, don’t have the interests
of professional Tampa indie film in mind.
Well, she can’t go back to her propaganda. She will also have a
tough time going forward against this Tampa Film Blog and my armada of
search engine-dominating web sites. Her feeble fan blog also may have
a lot of difficulty going up against my television interviews and media
projects, too (I was on TV a lot this year).
What’s left to do? I have a suggestion: retirement.
There’s no shame in quitting. You had a good run. It’s just
that, now, people are sick of all the B.S., and it is now time for professionals
to step in. It’s time for me to finish what you attempted to start.
You haven’t been blogging now for a few months, and let me be the
first to say that you have not been missed. Would you like to read the
ton of emails that I have confirming this?
In the opinion of many, my online film festival put a certain monthly
film festival out of business. While I believe that the organizers put
themselves out of business through general apathy and complete incompetence,
many are giving me and Tampa Bay Film the credit for correcting an ongoing
mistake, and pulling out the rug from beneath the feet of an obnoxious
Tampa indie film clique, who are more well known for slandering professionals,
than for promoting indie film. Who am I to argue?
Wow, the flawed film festival is over, and I didn’t have to do a
monthly film festival of my own to put them out of business. Perhaps all
it took was a popular online film festival? Declining film festival submissions,
declining audiences, a loss of moral...... what do you suppose caused
all of this?
Well, I know that the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival has been successful,
and surprised me with explosive 
growth
and tremendous success when it launched its second-generation online film
festival and stand-alone web site only two months ago. It’s now
in position for greater things, and will be the premier indie film and
promotional platform for the Tampa indie film market in 2009. There are
some truly revolutionary things on the way, and there will be creative
projects showcased on the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival in 2009
that you would never see at a conventional film festival event. You know
what? That’s fine, simply because it works, and helps to open Tampa
indie film to the general public!
Oh, yes, and going back to me doing my own monthly Tampa film festival,
that’s still in the works. Just because there won’t be competition
does not mean that I am sidelining that project. It is still planned,
and my team is still working on it.
It’s just that there is the possibility that it won’t show
up for another year, and that’s fine because the online film festival
can fill the void quite nicely in 2009. Expect the Tampa Film Showcase
to debut in 2010, and I’m thinking January 2010, just in time to
make the sponsors of certain overblown, bloated, overhyped film festivals
question their investment. Just like the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival
is positioned to compete with Tampa film festivals, the Tampa Film Showcase
will be positioned to make the large annual film festivals obsolete, as
Tampa indie film finally transitions into a professional era with its
first professional Tampa indie film community. These are truly exciting
times!
That’s not to say that I won’t be producing a Tampa film festival
event in 2009. We’re working on one right now for the fall, and
it won’t have anything to do with the Tampa Film Showcase, although
it may be used to promote it. The 2009 Tampa film festival project will
be revolutionary in itself, and it will cause everyone to redefine what
their expectations of a film festival are, and what a film festival can
do. This will be an entirely new kind of film festival, and it will be
interesting to see how other film festivals react to what it will introduce
to the indie film industry. I can already see the large annual film festivals
stumbling all over themselves as they try to adapt to new expectations
and new film festival standards, and it amuses me.
Oh, and the participation and support of the Tampa indie film clique isn’t
needed, or required. Feel free to sit back and watch. You can weep and
observe from the outside looking in, and kick yourselves when you realize
that you burned the bridge to the future as you acted on your prejudices
and your insecurities. It’s your loss. It certainly isn’t
mine.
2009 will be a time for some other cool things, too. I will return to
making indie films. My Tampa indie film production
company, Dream Nine Studios, was formed back in 1999, and hasn’t
done a single film project in the ten years that it has been around. It
didn’t really matter, however, because I was a filmmaker long before
1999, and my associates and I were working on other things, in the meantime,
while we waited for the right time to proceed. One of the things that
we were waiting for was for technology to catch up to our plans, and this
has finally happened. I see myself at the same place that I was at ten
years ago, when I began to tinker with web sites, and I launched my first
web site, Colony Alpha. We all know how many web sites that I have today,
and how successful that they are. The same thing is about to happen with
indie film, and I am certain that many indie filmmakers will learn, and
will benefit from, our fresh take, and revolutionary concepts, with independent
film.
For me, however, I am really looking forward to my upcoming Frontier View
“television” series of indie film shorts, which ties in with
my DJ Frontier alter ego, my Frontier Society subculture, and a program
that I produced back in 1995, which was called “Generation”.
I almost have everything that I need to begin production of the series,
and I am hoping to begin filming of Frontier View over the summer of 2009.
My online film festival will become very useful for the support of these
projects, too, because it isn’t a secret that I designed the online
film festival as a marketing and promotional platform for my indie films,
and everyone can benefit from the results of that effort. It’s only
fair, and I am sincere about helping Tampa indie film to grow.
Here’s to a great new year!
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