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Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 8:00 AM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
A Change Of Heart? Perhaps.
I've been doing a lot of research into the history of the Tampa indie film scene in the last week, specifically about The Tampa Film Review. I may have to change some of those old reviews. It seems that, when reviewing them, I reviewed them as film festivals, and not for what they were. They were public film screenings with feedback, and no film was turned away. The CFR / TFR was for all films, the best and the worst. Everyone who attended seemed to accept this, except for me.
I no longer feel that the TFR was a failure. It was what it was. For what it was, too, some of the details are commendable, as well as respectable. For what is was, the TFR succeeded. It has a solid five year run, and as someone who attended a lot of TFR events, I had fun at most of them.
My earlier reviews are a bit... harsh. I need to edit them, and add more content. As they are being reviewed as film festivals, don't expect the scores to change much, but keep in mind that I will not be harping so much on crappy films being shown and it not going anywhere. The TFR was what it was, and it didn't have to go anywhere. It was free, showed all the films which were submitted to it, and it was fun. My Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional networking event series won't be a TFR 2, and is actually a different kind of event (The Tampa Film Showcase is what I wished that the TFR would have become, but things are what they are, not necessarily what they could be.). Sadly, I don't think that there will ever be another TFR. Don't look at me, either, because I'm going to be doing sophisticated film festival. The TFR, in some ways, wasn't really a film festival. It was a free film screening event, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Additionally, I am having a change of heart regarding my perception about how the Tampa film scene is, and was. Many of the issues that I had with some people were born of a series of misconceptions and misunderstandings. We really don't need to keep this going. There is no point to it. I'm not going anywhere, and neither are the others. We are all going to have to, at the very least, try to respect each other and get along. Although I have no desire to be friends with some of these people, I will try to respect them. I really don't hate anyone. Regardless of who like and dislikes who, we can get along.
Paul Guzzo and Pete Guzzo are not bad people. They are certainly not perfect, but neither am I. I do think that they are good filmmakers. I also think that their work with the TFR should be commended, and not condemned. Just because we do not see eye to eye does not mean that we should not try to understand, and respect, each other. That's all that I ask, and it's all that I want.
There was a great war over the years in the Tampa indie film scene. Waging war, in a business sense, is what I do, and I do it well. I do not desire it, however. This has become an entrenched, ongoing cold war of mistrust and misunderstanding, and I do not believe that such a war is good for the growth of the Tampa film scene and the eventual formation of a Tampa indie film community.
Sure, I've been wronged, but am I the only one? Certainly not. We're all to blame, and we've all been victims in our life, too. It's what we do in response to what happens which actually matters, because that it something that we can control. I was wrong to fight back in the way that I did, as it only made things worse. We can stick up for ourselves and do the right thing without fighting people.
I really don't want to be perceived as the person who goes around bad-mouthing others, because that's not who I am. We can all go about our business, and work towards a better Tampa film scene. That's all that I want, and I am sure that's what everyone else wants, too.
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