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Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 8:34 AM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
Tampa Film Showcase Top Venue, And Taking Notes
I stopped by my
top choice for the Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional
networking event series this morning on the way to the studio. I like
it. It’s large enough for my big annual film festivals (although
it wouldn’t be the best fit for the Reverence film festival), with
fire codes rated at a maximum occupancy 500 of people (the venue is over
4,500 square feet. In comparison, the State Theater in Saint Pete, which
was the venue of the Saints and Sinners film festivals, is 6,000 square
feet; the venue can handle large annual film festivals as well as the
Tampa Film Showcase), and as long as people can get past the dirt roads
and barbed wire, it’s a great location. It’s a nice facility.
January 2012 isn’t that far away. This could be the venue (and,
at that time, I’ll be sure to verify if it is the same venue as
the one which I am talking about, now.)
I talked to Shelby Mcintyre a few days ago, and we were talking about
venues. He suggested that I use a movie theater, but I told him that it
wouldn't be ideal. It would be great for showing movies, but not for much
else. Additionally, movie theaters can be confusing, with limited potential
for branding. Professional networking will be a very important part of
the Tampa Film Showcase, so the venue selected has to be good for watching
movies and networking, and it’s preferable that both can be done
in the same room (it will make sense once you see how I have this planned
out). This said, the Tampa Film Showcase could be done at a venue of around
2,000 square feet, but we would need a maximum occupancy of at least 250.
Don't take these stats as fact for now, too, as nothing is official ,yet.
I will say that, if we had to do it at a venue identical to the original
coffeehouse venue that The Tampa Film Review used at the beginning, and
toward the end, that, although we'd take a hit on occupancy, we would
be able to achieve all of our goals; showing both Pete Guzzo and Paul
Guzzo what would have been possible had they organized The Tampa Film
Review (Coffeehouse Film Review) properly. Regardless of what venue is
ultimately used, the Tampa Film Showcase, when compared to The Tampa Film
Review, will reveal just how flawed the old monthly film festival was.
People are going to wonder why they put up with the flaws of the amateurish
film festival after the Tampa Film Showcase sets the standard (If I had
made a wiser decision about what I invested in in late 2007, I would already
be making films, and it is possible that the Tampa Film Showcase would
have launched in 2008, and would have gone head to head with The Tampa
Film Review; in that scenario, my superior Tampa Film Showcase would have
driven The Tampa Film Review out of the market, and they would have shut
down in humiliation. I wish that I could have made that window. History
would have remembered The Tampa Film Review as a failure, and everyone
would have known that it failed. As it stands, they had no competition
from the Tampa Film Showcase, and Paul Guzzo was able to spin it as the
conclusion of his run; he shut it down with some believing that it was
a success. As it stands now, the Tampa Film Showcase will launch three
years after The Tampa Film Review ended, and it will take time for people
to realize that The Tampa Film Review was over hyped and overrated, and
that it was a flawed film festival which finally failed. The Guzzo Bros,
in my opinion, were not able to fix what was wrong with The Tampa Film
Review. Although they made some improvements, it was a case of too little,
too late. In late 2008, The Tampa Film Review became untenable, and the
Guzzo Bros quit; without competition (which would have highlighted the
shortcomings of the TFR), Paul Guzzo was able to spin it as the end of
a successful monthly film festival. I suppose that I will have to wait
a while longer before I am able to demonstrate, and prove, that The Tampa
Film Review was deeply flawed, and ineffective. In the future, people
will remember it for what it really was; they will wonder why they spent
five years putting up with the ineptness and the flaws of The Tampa Film
Review. Paul Guzzo claimed that he could not continue to do his monthly
film festival because they could not do it half-ass, which is ironic,
in my opinion, because I believe that the main problems with The Tampa
Film Review was that it was done half-ass all along! With the final Coffeehouse
Film Review (CFR) in late 2005 (just before they moved to another venue
and remained it The Tampa Film Review), they were not even close to having
all of the bugs ironed out, and they had almost two years to get the film
festival running right! When it ended after a five year run, The Tampa
Film Review was still flawed, and that is a testament that organized events
such as film festival should be left to professional event planners, and
not mere filmmakers (mental note to myself: Get those CFR/ TFR reviews
done!).
Anyway, I’ll be spending the rest of the morning working on indexing
the film blog content, and printing out review notes. This weekend, I
have to do a shoot with models, and over an event. Other than my camera
gear, I will have little on me (I will be writing on my Palm TX PDA using
a fold-out pocket keyboard, as I cannot take a computer where I am going.
I'll later transfer the text files to a computer, edit them in Wordperfect,
and then format it in Dreamweaver. I've been creating content for web
sites for years doing it this way). I’ll have a lot of downtime,
though (at least 14 hours), so I will be writing reviews for Experiment
7 (film), What Women Want (stageplay), TFR 2009 (film festival), TFR 2004-2009
guide (film festivals), CFR/TFR 2004 (film festival), CFR/TFR 2005 (film
festival), the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival 2009 (film festival),
and 99 (film). With that last film, I’m watching Reservoir Dogs
in the studio at the moment, so I’ll put that on next to refresh
my memory. I’ll get screen grabs next week.
All of the reviews, with the exception of the play review, will be published
on the Tampa Film Review Tampa Bay Film site next week, and referenced
from the Tampa Film Blog.
I have to go. Mr. Blonde is about to dance with a police officer to the
song “Stuck in the middle” (Actually, this scene
reminds me of the movie "Swimming with Sharks", another
great movie!).
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