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Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 09:00 AM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
The Veil Of Secrecy Descends
I have had a lot going on lately.
As a matter of fact, I will be so busy with none-indie film things until
spring 2009 that you can count this as a break.
Tampa Bay Film will receive a massive update in the spring, which includes
a Tampa film scam analysis database.
The database is already well underway, and will be completed soon. The
Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival will also see a large update in the
spring, and will hold steady for now, as will this Tampa Film Blog. With
Tampa Bay Film and the online film festival currently my most valuable
and important properties, this is aggravating at a certain level, but
the break is needed because my service companies need my full attention
right now.
I’m going to take my time, simply because I have that luxury. The
Tampa indie film scene is in shambles, there are fewer Tampa film festivals
this year, and fewer Tampa filmmakers will be making indie films in 2009.
2010 will be another story, even if the economy does not improve, because
sometime between spring 2009 and the end of the year, I will introduce
some rather interesting indie film concepts which will inspire Tampa filmmakers
to make new types of films. I will also inspire Tampa film festival organizers
to break the mold, and to create new types of film festivals. Yes, people,
there are other ways to do things, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
I’d rather not give away the store right now and let the unethical,
vocal minority skip away with my ideas, claim credit for them, and benefit
from them before I am ready to work them myself. New competition will
spring up due to my efforts, and I’d rather not give them a head
start.
Besides, it is highly unlikely that anyone will come up with any of my
concepts on their own in the next year or two. I fully expect the same
tired, worn out films to be made in that time, although their will be
fewer films made.
I guarantee that I have at least ten revolutionary ideas at this time,
and more are coming to me all of the time. Those ideas are not that experimental,
either, although some will lead to a series of experimental short films.
These revolutionary concepts will work, and many of them have done what
they were supposed to in secret tests where their true purpose was hidden.
Indeed, some of the best revolutionary ideas in indie film will find their
sources in other industries.
For now, the veil of secrecy descends. I’ll look around from time
to time to see what everyone else is working on, and I’ll let them
do their thing. If I see any threat to my online film festival, Tampa
Bay Film, or any of my other indie film properties, I’ll work toward
addressing them as they come, but in all honesty, I don’t expect
any challenges. I actually expect the efforts of others to fall short,
and many of them will do more to themselves than anyone else, including
myself, can do to them.
At any rate, the days where I publish a lot of what I am working on online
is pretty much over. I refuse to telegraph my moves to a faceless crowd
of aspiring competition any longer. I’ve seen too many of my ideas
taken by others and handicapped by their lack of comprehension behind
the concepts of what makes them work. I’m also over the false accusations
of others accusing me of taking the ideas of others when the reality is
that those ideas were mine to begin with. Let them say what they want
to. The bottom line is that very few will learn of my ideas before I am
in the position to work with those ideas, no one will be able to work
my ideas like I will, and what is coming will be one revolution after
another. Those who have been professional and fair with me will benefit,
and those who were not will be left behind and forgotten.
Alright, do I have news? Well, of course I have news. This is all that
I will say, for now.
1. I’m returning my 480p camera, and will be obtaining a new 1080p
HD, 24P camera in the spring. I love my new camera, and got a lot of great
footage with it. I will be saving that footage for later use. It’s
just that my computers are not up to editing any video footage right now,
and I will need to invest in all-new computers for video. I will also
need to invest in some odds and ends. This actually isn’t all that
expensive, and I will have it this year, it’s just that there is
not much that I can do with it while I concentrate on my photography business
over the next few months. I will be expanding my work to my event planning
company in the summer, too, as we have to prepare for the holiday 2009
events later this year. So, although I will have the indie filmmaking
gear this year, I won’t have much time to do much with it until
later spring or early summer. I’ll have some short films completed
this year, but not nearly as much as I wanted to do. It won’t be
until 2010 until I get fully underway with my indie filmmaking efforts,
but when that happens, it’ll really happen. Expect a flood of some
innovative, and creative, indie film projects in the next few years. Some
of these indie film projects will be revolutionary in every way, and many
will be very different from anything that you have seen in the history
of film. What’s amusing is that some of these film concepts won’t
take any measure of genius to pull off, they will just be the professional
execution of some good ideas (ideas which I’m sure others would
have though of in another ten or twenty years). Many Tampa filmmakers
will go “Wow... why didn’t I think of that?!?!” before
going off to do a new type of film that they were inspired to do.
Alas, I do have my work cut out for me, however. In order to fully support
these endeavors, and to run ahead of everyone else with my own concepts,
I need support infrastructure. I need my photography company completely
dominating the Tampa photography services industry, and my Tampa event
planning and stage production company up to where they need to be. This
is why I must now take a break. It’s not like there is much going
on right now in Tampa indie film, anyway.
My business partners have already approved the use of my photography company
funds, and my event planning funds, to invest in indie filmmaking, so
it’s all a part of the plan. The ball is now in motion.
So, what of my Tampa film festival plans?
Glad that you asked.
First, the good news. As it now stands, I will be doing a Tampa film festival
this year. It just won’t be the monthly Tampa Film Showcase film
festival.
The Tampa film festival which I will be launching this year is a separate
property than my other film festival properties, and will be an entirely
new kind of film festival. It will be a one day film festival held in
north Tampa in September or October 2009, and will be held annually after
its debut.
I wanted to use that first film festival to market and promote the Tampa
Film Showcase, which I initially planned to launch in January of 2010.
Well, it’s a simple case of logistics there. First, I want a portfolio
of several films of my own to pull from for my monthly film festival (I
will be doing some presentations introducing new film concepts, and I
will need examples for these). Also, there are an array of talent resource
web sites which will be needed to support this, and it will take most
of 2009 to get them up to speed. There is also the question of sponsors,
which it will need (something that the TFR would have benefitted from).
Sure, I could launch the Tampa Film Showcase as early as this summer if
I wanted to, and it would be everything that I said that it would, but
would I have the support infrastructure in place to keep it going month
after month? I’d rather wait and do things right. I’ll wait,
and so will you. This goes for indie films as well as film festivals.
A few years from now, when I’m doing tons on films and at least
three different film festival series, I’m sure that the delays will
be long forgotten. For me, it’s never a question of “if”,
but rather “when”. Seeing the direction that my other business
endeavors are going in, filmmaking and film festivals are a given. There
is just no other way around them. It’s going to happen, and when
it does, I will take the lead in this market as well as the national spotlight.
So, three film festival series? Sure! The new type of film festival already
in the works for this fall, the Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival,
and another annual film festival which will directly tie into the Tampa
Film Showcase series, and will require at least twelve monthly events
before it can happen.
It’s all coming together. It’s just going to take time.
Thank God the long wait is almost over.
Oh, and some opinions about some other Tampa film festivals. I won’t
be covering either the Gasparilla Film Festival or the Sunscreen Film
Festival this year, and there will not be any reviews of those film festivals
on Tampa Bay Film. Not only are they too spread out, over several days,
but I don’t have the time to spend covering them (well, who knows...
I’ll let you know if this changes- it’ll either be nothing,
or all. Right now, it’s nothing). Regarding big Tampa film festivals
such as the Gasparilla Film Festival, it will be interesting to see how
they will do in the present economy. Gasparilla is expanding in size this
year to more venues and ten days, and with their main sponsor being a
bank, I’m watching to see what happens. With banks doing poorly
right now, is it possible for an expanding film festival to implode upon
itself due to scaled back support. Please keep in mind that I am merely
speculating here, but I would be surprised if the Gasparilla Film Festival
does well this year.
Alrighty. It is now time for me to tend to my photography business. In
closing, I would like to leave with these thoughts about the Tampa Film
Blog. Although my posts in 2009 won’t be as frequent, or as revealing,
this will serve as the silence before the storm. I’ll have plenty
of filmmaking anecdotes and indie film ideas published on here, but rest
assured that they will be well after I’m working it, rather than
before. The good stuff will come in due time, and you may wait along with
the rest of the world. It’ll certainly be worth it.
For now, I will quietly work on my projects, and reveal them when they
are ready to be revealed.
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