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A Significant Gasparilla International Film Festival (GIFF) No-Show - Boring Indie Film
Monday, March 22, 2010 - 1:35 PM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
Tampa Indie Film History Database In The Works
I finished downloading relevant content from a web site, and content from an infamous message board (a message board which is now a ghost town because of discrimination, censorship, and the support of the Tampa indie film clique; the Tampa indie film clique also in shambles) in order to research the documented history of Tampa indie film. It looks like 2006-2007 was a pivotal year for Tampa film, and the repercussions of that period are in the events of today. It was also a period which saw the launch of Tampa Bay Film, which is now seen by many as the future of Tampa indie film. Tampa Bay Film was a result of the frustration of bias, discrimination, and shady politics in the Tampa indie film scene. It was also created from the frustration of nothing actually being accomplished in the Tampa indie film scene (some of you may recall a war between Tampa Bay Film and unethical elements in the Tampa film scene from 2008 to 2009. Tampa Bay Film won, of course, and one of the casualties was the flawed TFR, which shut down in failure in early 2009- many blame me for the demise of the TFR, but I believe that it was a victim of neglect and poor planning. For the record, I never wanted the TFR to fail. I only wanted Paul Guzzo and Pete Guzzo to take the criticism constructively, like all professionals would do, and fix what was wrong with their film festival. In the end, they gave up, and shut down the TFR. While I do think that the Guzzo Brothers are good filmmakers, they've proven that they are not good film festival organizers; at least they demonstrated a need for a monthly film festival, even if they ultimately failed to pull it off). As an example, now, in early 2010, there still isn't a Tampa film community, and we have a lot of work to do before that will happen. The Tampa indie film scene is still fractured and crippled, with a lot of seriously flawed, high-profile independent films being made in a cookie cutter assembly line; films which do nothing to put Tampa indie film on the map, or to advance Tampa indie film. We expect those filmmaking efforts to implode and go away, especially when the investors behind those films find out, the hard way, that they cannot make their money back.
With all of this research being done, an official historical database for Tampa indie film is now being built, and will be published on the main Tampa Bay Film site (history, after all, is written by the victors. We'll be sure that everyone knows what happened). It's all about accountability. The upcoming Tampa Film Conference, an annual event series which is sincere about supporting, and advancing, Tampa indie film, will make all of the participants accountable for what they do, as well as facilitate the free exchange of ideas; the theft of ideas will be discouraged, and the authors of those ideas will receive their due credit. The backstabbing and the credibility attacks of the past will, as well as the other unethical activity which went on, hopefully, become a blemish of history, and stay in the past. Some of the unprofessional and unethical people of the past who have sold out Tampa filmmaking, played politics, stole things from others, and worked to advance their cause at the expense of Tampa filmmakers will not be allowed to become a part of the first Tampa film community.
Additionally, regarding Tampa Bay Film, which split into a network of eight sites in the past year and a half, the main Tampa Bay Film is lacking in content (the content for the other sites was taken from the main Tampa Bay Film site). What's coming up? The official Tampa indie film historical database, which will document who did what (I'm sure that people will want to look back and see who was responsible for things when they turn out to be bad. It's all about accountability. Also, those who refuse to study history are doomed to repeat it; we want Tampa indie film to move ahead, and not be stuck where it is now, floundering and impotent, ten years from now). I'm also working on the 2010 Tampa Bay Film indie film scam analysis database, and a series of articles and other resources for the main Tampa Bay Film site. Other upcoming articles will include an expose about the making of The Quiet Place, the failure and resurrection of the Tampa Film Network, filmmaker information profiles, a series of articles exploring Tampa indie film politics (including a series of articles about The Tampa Film Review), and more. I can't wait. This is going to be good.
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