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Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 4:00 PM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
Weeding
It’s been a busy month.
I’ve been working on infrastructure and have spent a lot of my time
on Independent Modeling. I will be doing a lot with the Tampa indie film
scene and with Tampa Bay Film in May, however, and will return to form.
As I ponder what needs to be done, I am thinking of different things.
For starters, about how weak most of the Tampa indie film scene is, and
how this is going to change.
Now, I really don’t want to go bashing anyone, but there are some
things which need to be said, and there are things which need to be done.
I’ve been involved with the Tampa indie film scene since late 2005.
Since then, I have met most of the people who make up the scene, and know
just about everything which is going on (many people talk to me, and I
am a damn good listener). I was smart about how I became involved with
the Tampa indie film scene, and over the years, I cut through a lot of
the B.S., and know how all the players really are. I’ve experienced
discrimination, and have been slandered. Unlike most, however, I fought
back, and had the resources to do so. Just about everyone who started
trouble with me have come to regret it, and they will continue to regret
it in the future, not because of what I will do to them, but because I
won’t have anything to do with them. Hey, they did it to themselves,
and have only themselves to blame.
Those who backstabbed me, and who caused me trouble, are idiots. They
certainly messed with the wrong person.
You see, I’m going to be the best thing going on in the Tampa indie
film scene. I’m still working on completing the foundation of what
is to come, and, unlike others who have claimed that they are helping
the Tampa indie film scene, I actually am sincere about my motives. What
is most amusing to me, however, is that many of these so-called Tampa
filmmakers screwed themselves. They underestimated me and what my people
are working on. It’s a lot like meeting someone at a party and disliking
them because you are jealous of them for some reason or you are intimidated
by them because you perceive them to be competition. Because you don’t
like them, you are rude to them and spread rumors about them. You regret
it later, however, because you realize that you made a mistake by attacking
someone who is a potential employer, and you messed up the job interview
without realizing that you were being evaluated the entire time.
I’m not going to go out of my way to do anything to anyone who was
unprofessional with me. I’m not going to go out of my way to help
them, either, even when they are begging for my help. I’m a firm
believer that you reap what you sow. Although many of these Tampa filmmakers
don’t realize it yet, they need me a lot more than I need them.
As a matter of fact, I’ve evaluated them for a while now, and have
determined that I’m better off without them. I have not been impressed
with them, and am convinced that, if the Tampa indie film scene were to
continue on without some serious intervention, that it would not be any
better off in the next five years. You will still have the same crappy
films being made, and the lack of progress because so-called filmmakers
play politics and work to undermine each other.
For the most part, it is time to reboot the entire Tampa indie film scene
and cut our losses. It is time to cut off all the trouble makers and discourage
their efforts as filmmakers by leaving them on the outside. It is my dream
to see these fakes fail and give up, because they are only out to help
themselves at the expense of others, and are making the Tampa indie film
scene look bad.
That’s not to say that everyone needs to go. I have a list, and
although that list is a short one, those on that list have earned my respect,
and will receive my full support, as well as the support of the infrastructure
that is being built.
Now, I am sure that most Tampa filmmakers will not have a clue about what
I am about to publish here, especially with the lack of business skills
that they have exhibited over the years, but they will not be able to
compete against what is coming. This market is about to expand, and the
filmmakers who don’t have what it takes will find themselves outnumbered.
They will be outnumbered by a new generation of filmmakers who will learn
by the examples set by me and my people. This new generation of indie
filmmakers will use the Tampa Bay Film site as their bible, and they will
be unstoppable. It is inevitable, and new blood must be brought into the
film scene; revolution and growth is impossible with the current dead
wood clogging up the Tampa indie film scene.
I have no desire to sell them film classes or to run a film school. I
will be too busy making films and working indie film to teach it, and
I will teach by default by leading by example. I will also ensure that
this new generation of Tampa indie filmmakers will be independent, and
they won’t be dependent upon me to succeed.
Some of you may be wondering how this is possible? Allow me to explain.
I am going to expand the Tampa film scene by revolutionizing it and the
way that it works. I will inspire new filmmakers to get involved by utilizing
Blue Ocean business tactics (look it up, if you are able to comprehend
business).
One of the complaints that I often receive about the Tampa Bay Film Online
Film Festival is that many of the indie films featured on it are not from
Tampa. Currently, that’s unavoidable. If I were to stick to “Tampa
films only”, it wouldn’t be much of a film festival, and it
would cripple it as a indie film marketing and promotion platform. While
is does put an emphasis on Tampa films, and this will work well in the
future, at the current time, there just aren’t enough Tampa indie
films available to carry a film festival. Also, of those Tampa films that
are available, few of them are any good. This will change, but not without
a lot of work. Not without revolution.
So, what’s up with all of those indie films on the online film festival
from all over the world? Well, for the most part, many of them can be
done here in Tampa. The primary reason for including them is to inspire
Tampa filmmakers to make great films, and to open their eyes to the possibilities
of filmmaking.
I’m going to say it now. Indie filmmaking is no longer expensive,
if you know what you are doing and you are smart about doing it. I’m
even going to prove it. In a few short weeks, I will be ready to do what
I’ve been planning on doing for the past ten years. It will only
cost me pocket change, too. For less than $1,000.00 in equipment, I am
going to put together some short films which will be of higher quality
than most Tampa indie films that have been done up to this point, and
they will be impressive enough to land some investors in the future and
enable feature films to be made with the best equipment available. This
strategy has served me well in my photography business, and I sell a lot
of shoots based on the work in my photography portfolio. Want to know
a secret? When I first went pro in my photography career, back in 2001,
digital cameras were expensive. I invested in a 3.3 Megapixel Nikon, a
consumer camera, for $1,600.00 (the camera was $1,000.00, 64 meg CF flash
cards were $150.00, and the other accessories were also expensive). In
just over a year, I paid off my investment and shot circles around just
about every Tampa photographer. As a matter of fact, there were photographers
who were shooting with $5,000.00 pro SLR digital cameras, and they were
pissed off when they found out what I was using to take their business
away. I not only took better pictures than they did, but I outsold them.
Today, although digital cameras are now cheap and photographers seem to
be a dime-a-dozen, I still dominate the Tampa photography services market,
although my consumer camera wore out long ago, and I am using pro-level
cameras.
I have a feeling that history is about to repeat itself.
I’ve done the research. I’ve paid my dues long ago. I have
the resources, such as the best actors (as I have demonstrated several
times by referring top actors to Tampa film productions). I now have the
equipment that I need, and surprise, it wasn’t as expensive as they
say that it is. As a matter of fact, I will be doing some revolutionary
film projects for less than I invested with my digital photography equipment
all those years ago.
I have other things in the works. Interesting things that I cannot go
into detail over, yet. I have two more Tampa film-relevant web sites in
the works, and have four film festival properties in development (all
of the film festival properties are being designed with the Blue Ocean
strategy in mind, and are not dependent upon the current Tampa film scene
at all; current being the clue word. They will all succeed even if everyone
in the current Tampa indie film scene did not support them). Just like
photography, I will seize the Tampa indie film scene, and will dominate
in every category. I will help filmmakers who deserve my help. I will
assist with the creation of the first professional Tampa indie film community.
I will own the best film festivals in Tampa. I will inspire other filmmakers
by producing some of the most creative films ever done in the Tampa indie
film scene. I will also support these efforts with the full resources
of all of my companies and business assets.
I am serious about Tampa indie film, and supporting a film scene which
demands respect. Would you rather have Hollywood come here to do their
motion pictures, and to compete with Tampa filmmakers for resources, or
would you prefer to have Hollywood distributors come to Tampa looking
for Tampa indie films to buy?
I thought so. The irony, however, is that, despite my claims that “I
will be the one”, that most of this will come about by the efforts
of others, inspired by some things that my people and I do. I can’t
do this alone. I’m going to need the help of talented filmmakers
to put the Tampa indie film scene on the map. It’s just that I don’t
need the help of most of the filmmakers currently in the Tampa indie film
scene. Most of the current filmmakers have mismanaged and sold-out the
Tampa indie film scene, and have no place in the future market. The future
belongs to a select few now present, and filmmakers who have yet to begin.
What do I want? What everyone should want. I want the Tampa film commission
to respect Tampa filmmakers. I want large film festivals who use Tampa
filmmakers as cheap labor, and which exist to attract the competition
of those filmmakers to the Tampa Bay market, to go away. I want to see
a variety of innovative, and quality, Tampa indie films which inspire
respect. I also want to see the Tampa indie film scene grow and stand
on its own two feet. I believe that the Tampa indie film scene should
innovate and create its own Hollywood East, and not to depend upon others
to make it happen. We don’t need Hollywood to come here. We need
to build our own Hollywood East, and attract those who are looking for
films to buy instead of selling out to attract our competition here.
The Tampa indie film scene, so far, has failed. It’s time to do
something different. It is time to get rid of the self-serving fake filmmakers,
and to attract new talent for the upcoming revolution.
It’s time for change.
I’m weeding. You should be weeding, too. Choose who you work with
carefully.
At any rate, it’s back to work for me. I’ll be adding more
films to the online film festival in May. I also have the money to invest
in the best marketing material for Tampa Bay Film. My photography and
design services company will be creating some new marketing material for
Tampa Bay Film (the same resources that go into the best modeling composite
cards in the modeling industry will be used to create the best marketing
cards ever seen in the Tampa indie film scene). I will also be stepping
up efforts to cover, and review, Tampa film festivals, and will be attending
with teams to add interviews at those festivals, much like Scream @ The
Wall has done. Expect those video interviews to be available on Tampa
Bay Film in the near future. We will have that interview capability at
the end of May, 2009.
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