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Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 7:30 PM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
Tampa Film Festival Update
Well, this is something that
I have wanted to write about for a while. This will be my last Tampa Film
Blog post for a while, as I have other things to work on right now.
The Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional networking
event series (wow, what a mouthful) is still a work in progress. I’m
sure that there will be some out there whining that it is taking too long
and that it will never happen, but I really don’t care what they
think. This will be worth the wait.
So, why isn’t the Tampa Film Showcase up and running yet? There
are two main reasons. First, I have a specific business plan for this
Tampa film festival series. Sure, doing it once a year wouldn’t
be that big of a deal. It could be done now. It’s just that, once
it debuts, it has to run consistently every month, and that’s another
undertaking entirely.
Capping off that first reason, the current economic environment is not
conducive to my specific business plan for the Tampa Film Showcase. That,
however, can be adjusted, and it isn’t the main reason why this
Tampa film festival has not launched.
The second reason, and the main one behind the hold on all three of my
planned Tampa film festival properties, is that I need films of my own
to show. With my current focus on sales and marketing for my service companies,
I wouldn’t have the time right now to make a film even if I did
have all the gear that I needed. Time is more of an issue right now, however,
because the gear which I need to make films is very affordable, and I
have figured out a way to make great, and even groundbreaking, indie films
inexpensively. When I start making indie films, there will be a lot of
films coming out of the pipeline, and my overall indie film production
output will be many times that of most Tampa filmmakers. Within a few
years, I will have a portfolio of interesting indie films larger than
most Tampa filmmakers currently have. Some of those films will gain national
attention, and positive press for the Tampa film scene.
There are some out there who will state that there is an unwritten rule
that you don’t use your own film festival to promote your own films.
I disagree. I do believe that it is inappropriate to promote your films
over the other films at your film festival or to be involved in the judging
of your own film if it is in a film festival competition (this would be
a conflict of interest), but it is perfectly fine to use your film festival
to show your own films. It takes an educated mind to tell the difference,
and those who blanket it with a general statement without qualifying the
specifics behind that statement show, in my opinion, their ignorance.
I design my film festivals to promote my own films. I intend to use my
film festivals to promote my own films. Nothing shows confidence like
using your own film festival to handle the promotion of your own films,
and this alone shows how serious I am about creating effective, professional
film festivals. If it’s good enough for my high standards, everyone
involved will benefit.
This said, the Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional
networking event series is officially on hold for now, with a debut date
TBA. I really couldn’t say when it will debut, but I could give
an educated guess and say that it could debut as early as 2011. Trust
me, it will be worth the wait.
For now, we do have the very successful Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival,
which is currently king of the Tampa film festivals, and has higher “attendance”
and a much greater exposure for promoting Tampa indie film than all of
the Tampa film festivals combined.
The Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival continues to dominate, and it’s
about to get even better. I took a break for a few months because I had
other things to work on, but there are plans for the online film festival
for this spring which will add a lot to it. Updates should resume in a
few weeks, and I may end up spending time re-adding films to the online
film festival from the archives. Lonelygirl, anyone?
Besides, I have big plans for the upcoming 2009 review of the Tampa Bay
Film Online Film Festival. We’re going to have a viewing party with
models, actors, and filmmakers sometime this fall, a sort of private invite-only
film festival with the online film festival. The film festival has to
be built up for that.
Alrighty... There was another film festival that I had planned for the
fall, but there is one reason that I chose to delay it for at least a
year. I don’t have any films to show right now! That, and it is
supposed to be a marketing lead-in for the debut of the Tampa Film Showcase.
Well, maybe fall 2010 will work.
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