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Sunday, October 18, 2009 - 8:30 AM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
Some Thoughts About Film Festivals And Work
I took a break from Tampa Bay Modeling today. It's Tampa Bay Modeling's birthday, after all. There is a lot of work going on right now, and it is obvious that much of it will not be up today (I spent hours yesterday working on a "bad job" section where I made fun of bad modeling jobs and scams. It became obvious that I would have to rewrite the modeling job ads so that the authors would not perceive that I was directly attacking them, which is a no-no with the site. Scam and bad business patterns should be exposed, yes, but specifically targeting and attacking people, no. I may be stating the obvious, but some of those people are bad people, and provoking them to come after me is not something that I am inclined to do). The site has seen tremendous progress lately, however. Oh, and happy fifth anniversary, Tampa Bay Modeling. I'll get the press campaign going by next week, Monday the 26th. That gives me a few more days to get things rolling, such as the modeling job section and the core modeling job board on Independent Modeling. Today, however, I'm giving Tampa Bay Modeling a rest, and will take some time to finish up on Tampa Bay Film. Although I won't be updating the site a lot for the next few months, there will be some material added. I also need to get the other Tampa Bay Film sites up, which will require some picture editing to be done today. The sites have to be completely up so that the search engines have time to index them before the busy work next year.
I have to move all the Tampa Bay Film reviews to Tampa Film Review, and that will require for that site to be completely up. I also have to get Tampa Film Festivals completely up, and upgrade the Tampa Film Showcase site. With my first underground film festival next week, and another rolling out in less than two months, Tampa Film Festivals needs to be online as a full web site. Ironically, each film festival site will not be a section on Tampa Film Festivals, although they will exist in a subdirectory under TampaFilmFestivals.Com (kind of like Tampa Bay Film used to be a directory under TampaHub.Com. For example, the Reverence Film Festival would be TampaFilmFestivals.Com/reverencefilmfestival/index.html, with links to it from the main Tampa Film Festivals site directories. This way, each film festival promotes the others, as they will all use the Tampa Film Festivals for branding, marketing, and operating purposes. When people go to the Tampa Film Festivals site which every film festival will brand, they will see the other film festival sites, too. Brilliant, and it enhances the effectiveness of all the film festival properties). There will actually be complete, uniquely designed, self-contained web sites on Tampa Film Festivals, exactly as if they were independent web sites with their own domain names. Each site will be different, and each will link back to Tampa Film Festivals and the other Tampa Bay Film sites. I sure hope that certain people in the Tampa filmmaking scene are reading this, and are learning that I really know what I am doing.
My companies will be producing a lot of different film festivals, and they will all tie into each other one way or another. We will have more Tampa film festivals than all of the other Tampa film festivals, combined. We will seize, and control, the Tampa film festival market, as it will be in the best interest of Tampa indie filmmaking. My backbone film festival property, the Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional networking event series, will be a small, but aggressive monthly film festival. The Tampa Film Showcase will be more advanced than even the largest Florida film festivals, and although it will be smaller, it will be scrappy,and more effective; the film festival series has more than enough teeth to take on large film festivals such as the Gasparilla International Film Festival and the Sarasota Film Festival. The Tampa Film Showcase will be relevant for Tampa filmmaking, and it will be more fun, and more interesting, than other film festivals. Our programming will be more creative, too, as I will take a page from the magazine publishing world and program the festival by the quarter. If your film is selected to play, expect to wait a couple of months for it to be in that program (I will be programming two events ahead, to give us lead time. There will be none of the hack jobs and last minute curve balls that made The Tampa Film Review so chaotic. This is going to be a professional film festival series which will set new standards for film festivals). The Tampa Film Showcase will also have a selection process. I will not bore the audience with badly-made films (although we will support those other films in ways that I cannot go into right now, for those who want to see them). We will only show well-made indie films worthy of the "showcase" description, and we will not have to compromise, or skimp on our film standards, because we will have plenty to choose from. There is a lot more, too, but I can't go into it right now. I may not even be able to tell-all a year after the Tampa Film Showcase debuts. Some things will remain trade secrets.
Eventi Stage, my stage
production company which split from my event planning company (and which
is waiting for me to build them a web site, since Eventi Events
has the original site, and Eventi Stage is now a separate company.
I had to split the company because licensing, usage, and production 
requirements
were so different that they were not compatible) I should be able to make
them a new Diana Class site before the year is out!), will become
a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization. Eventi Stage will
be producing, and working, all of our film festival properties. Although
they are non-profit productions, I do see film festivals as a professional
business, and we will run them aggressively and professionally. They are
non-profit ventures with the goal of supporting, promoting, and growing
Tampa indie filmmaking. You all really have no idea of what is coming,
and what all of this will do to the Tampa indie film market. It's going
to be like a swarm of smarter, smaller, more effective, and more cost-effective
film festivals. It's going to be very hard for large, bloated film festivals
to contend with what we will be doing. Hell, even the tiny low-budget
underground film festivals will be better, and more effective, than a
lot of so-called film festivals. Take the Tampa Bay Film Review,
for example. This underground film festival will be a series of private
events, but will outdo The Tampa Film Review monthly film festival
in every way possible. It will even have features that will give the large
Tampa film festivals a reason to get on the ball. One slogan of the underground
film festival is "We'll remind you that the TFR really sucked",
as the tiny event will be everything that the defunct TFR (The
Tampa Film Review) was supposed to be, and more. Another slogan,
which I love, is "You are not invited". I love it,
especially after someone told me that it was "dickish". Oh,
ironically, it seems that I have quite a few readers on her, because I
am beginning to see others tinker with the idea of underground film festivals.
Since they were my idea, shouldn't I get royalties?
So, I am in the mood to finish editing pictures, and to get some of those site up to where they need to be.
Oh, and a thought. I just read some of my film festival reviews. Is it me, or do I tend to get off topic a lot? I'll have to do something about that. Next year, we will be covering Tampa film festivals and Tampa indie film on a level which has not been seen before, and I'd rather stay on topic. I will have to figure out a way to cover the films as well as the film festival. It looks like my film festival adventures will become team efforts, as it will be too much for me to do alone. Expect more people to join me in our agenda (it's not like I don't have them already. I'll just have to give them things to do).
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