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Friday, March 20, 2009 - 8:00 AM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
Busy Working Towards 2010
Here’s a quick update
for all of you. I have to compose an entry for the Tampa Photographer
Blog in a few minutes.
I’m eagerly awaiting the debut of the latest short film from Chris
Woods. As we all know, Chris Woods is one of the most talented Tampa filmmakers
in the Tampa indie film scene. It’s been several years since the
last Chris Woods / Icon Film Studios film, and reports that I have heard
state that the magic is still alive. I can’t wait to see this, as
I 
referred
the lead actress, Tampa actor Sarah Bray, to this film project. Sarah
Bray and I have been friends for several years, and we met when she was
an actor fresh from college with a BA in theatre. She was in the market
for headshots, and she was one of my headshot photography clients (much
like actress Harmony Oswald was, who I referred to The Quiet Place film
project a few years back). The film also stars Tampa actor Rod Grant,
who is, in my opinion, one of the best actors in Tampa. The film is scheduled
to debut on Nolan’s site, but Nolan is taking his time posting it,
so it may be a while longer. As soon as it is made available, I will be
featuring the film (which is titled some weird French word that escapes
me right now) on the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival.
There are not going to be many films made in Tampa this year, so I encourage
everyone to try to see every single one which comes out. This year, I
am also looking forward to seeing the Redner documentary and the Film
Ranch film “Brainjacked”.
Concerning the online film festival, I’m prepping the latest batch
of additions and some new sections, such as the online film workshop.
For most of the rest of 2009, the online film festival and the talent
job / audition boards on my talent resource sites will see most of the
updates, while many of my other sites will be updated as-needed. This
is because I will be spending a lot of my time doing shoots and writing
screenplays, stories, film project treatments, and books (I will not be
doing a lot of content work on my resource sites for a while, although,
if I do, the modeling resource sites get priority). The film project treatments
and the screenplays will be done in preparation for the imminent start
of my indie film production work, which I’m working toward beginning
late spring or summer.
Regarding the books, I have two big ones that I will be working on. The
novel, Frontier 4, is a project that I have been working on since my late
teens. It’s not as marketable as the other project, however, and
I don’t have a book deal for it, so it will be pushed back as my
second book. The main book project is a modeling book, which I do have
a book deal for. This isn’t one of those custom flix-style, Amazon.Com
self-publishing deals, either, because a big publisher has optioned it.
It seems that the publisher likes what they read on my modeling resource
sites, and they called what I write “a work of genius” and
“revolutionary” for the modeling industry. It’s taken
me a few months (well, actually over a year) to figure out a balance between
the book and my modeling resource sites, because I don’t want to
“give away the store” and put a lot of my book content on
those free sites. Some of my latest, most effective, and proven ideas
will be reserved for the book. The modeling resource sites will contain
their usual useful information and modeling career tools, but not as much
as the book will have. The modeling scam chapter in my modeling book is
looking like it will be huge, and will my chapter about modeling and the
Internet. Just remember that Independent models are not necessarily Internet
models, and everything in the book does not require the Internet, although
the Internet makes some things easier. If the Internet ceased to be, the
modeling revolution would still happen without it.
I expect to have the modeling book (and maybe even the novel) finished
this year. This could lead to a delay with my film projects, and that
may work out just fine since I need films for my film festivals, and the
earliest that I could have a Tampa film festival because of this requirement
is fall 2010. That film festival would serve as a lead-in for the Tampa
Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional networking event
series, and this could debut as early as January 2011. Of course, there
is a third film festival series in the works, too, an annual Tampa film
festival, and I couldn’t launch that one until there were a run
of at least eleven Tampa Film Showcase events, so I’m looking at
early 2012 for that one.
At any rate, expect the modeling book to be extremely controversial when
it is published. It pretty much makes the
established modeling industry obsolete, and is going to be very different
from any modeling book ever published (I know, because I have read them
all, and I disagree with a lot of the old-modeling industry propaganda
in those books). Since everything in the book has been proven to work
(I learned a lot from professional models who book work without going
through agencies over the years, and enhanced what I learned by improving
those concepts), expect modeling agencies and the mainstream modeling
industry to hate it, as it takes their leverage away and empowers models
to take charge of their own careers. I look forward to introducing balance
to the modeling industry and changing it. I look forward to the inevitable
televised debates on national television programs, which I intend to win.
It will revolutionize the modeling industry, put modeling agencies in
their place, and cripple modeling scams.
Just wait to you see what I have planned for the Indie film industry.
It is in need of a revolution, too, and I have some ideas and concepts
which have a good chance of doing just that. My Tampa film festivals will
be important components of what I have planned. As far as I am concerned,
the revolution in indie film begins here in Tampa Bay. It’s perfect
for that, too. Good location, lots of talent, lots of production potential,
weak indie film scene starving for new ideas, no Hollywood interests to
get in the way, amateur filmmakers who can be undermined, etc. Tampa Bay
is the perfect place to become Hollywood East, and let me tell you that
it will never happen if the Tampa film scene continues to copy what everyone
else does and keeps doing what it has been doing. It’s time for
a change.
Other news. I published a nine page entry which I composed on Tampa Photography
Blog last night. A few days ago, I updated the Tampa DJ Blog, which has
information about a new computer system that I am now building to support
my media projects (this includes indie films). Two days ago, I did a lot
of work on my Tampa advertising agency web site, and it only has a day’s
work left on it before it is ready for launch. Today, I will also compose,
and publish, a new post on my Tampa Photographer Blog, which has anecdotes
of my latest adventures as a photographer, including a report (and pictures)
of my job as a judge for the Miss Gasparilla pageant. I had to put on
my casting director’s hat for that one, because I was the sole judge
for the talent competition.
This weekend, I will be spending time in Tampa at an event with my models.
I’ll post about that on the Tampa Photographer Blog next week.
Oh, and Tampa film festival reviews. I almost forgot to report on that.
I intend to cover several Tampa film festivals this year, and will be
reviewing them. I also have enough information to compose a review for
the Gasparilla International Film Festival, and I may use my archived
notes to review all of them, one review for each year. Ah, and I’m
not forgetting the 2009 unauthorized review of The Tampa Film Review,
which was only one event in January. I will visit Ybor sometime next week
to obtain photographs for the review. Expect those reviews on Tampa Bay
Film, and, as a final note, I have two other projects in the works about
The Tampa Film Review. One will be a five year summary review of The Tampa
Film Review (TFR 2004-2009 - I may even post film programs for every single
event and link to the relevant reviews of films on Nolan’s site),
and there will be a parody story of an alternative Tampa Film Review titled
“The Tampa Film Review goes green”, which brings our merry
cast of characters to an outdoor setting.
Well, it is time to work on my Tampa Photographer Blog, and then work
on some photography-related projects. I have to finalize a series of service
agreements (contracts) and get new marketing material ordered next week.
I’ll post more on the Tampa Film Blog when I get time.
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