TAMPA
BAY INDEPENDENT FILM
The
standard of independent filmmaking in Tampa Bay
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The thumbnails above, which are for our online film
festival, are now active. Back in 2013, it was planned to move our online
film festival here on the Tampa Bay Independent Film web site. Recently,
in 2016, it was decided to create a new web site and branding for a global,
not regional, online film festival, although local Tampa Bay independent
films are emphasized. That online film festival, The
Connected Film Festival, launched on Wednesday, October 4,
2023. It is the official online film festival for the Tampa Bay Independent
film web site.
LATEST
ADDITIONS AND NEWS
NOTICE:
Preparing existing independent film resource web sites for next-generation
industry and talent resource web site upgrades as new web sites are built
and deployed.
Local Indie Film War entering its 16th year. Passinault authorizes a dramatic
increase of resources and web sites to work toward defeating toxic filmmakers
and to resolve the conflict.
Indie film conflict should be resolved within five years as new checks
and balances, as well as standards, are about to be introduced to the
Tampa Bay market; Passinault indicates that market is full of amateurs,
they do not know what they are doing, and it is weak, planning on rebooting
it. -
11/09/23/1501/
With the recent launch
of The Connected Film Festival, after seven years of delayed development,
and the recent restoration of capabilities to build and maintain web sites,
which had been in limbo since 2017 and is now fully operational, again,
we are in the process of upgrading existing web sites with next-generation
formats, tools, tactics, resources, and content, while building and deploying
brand new next-generation web sites such as Tampa Bay Indie Film, Indie
Film Auteur, Film Scams, Florida Independent Film, Florida Indie Film,
Florida Film Review, Tampa Film Review, and many more.
Existing actor and talent resource web sites are also being upgraded to
next-generation talent resource web site standards, and will assist actors
and talent in evaluating local filmmakers and their productions to determine
if they should work with them.
Many filmmakers will be cut off from actors and talent.
Passinault has stated that the Tampa Bay indie film war, which started
in late 2007, is now entering its 16th year, and should be resolved within
five years. He had left some filmmakers alone for the past nine years,
after addressing them bullying and slandering a contributor back in 2014,
and then giving one of them a domain name free of charge a couple of years
ago, online to be blamed for something that he had nothing to do with
after he gave them the domain name. With Passinault announcing in 2023
the start of production work of his own independent films, two “actors”associated
with the filmmakers began harassing him on social media and tried to get
him to make concessions that would have made his independent films too
expensive to make. Passinault did not fall for it, and he realized that
the filmmakers were behind the attacks, which convinced him that the war
was far from over, especially with filmmakers and their “fans”
attacking Passinault after he posted his opinions on his social media
wall about their films that he had seen, even after he didn’t name
the films or the filmmakers..
Checks and balances and professional standards will be introduced to the
Tampa Bay market.
NOTICE:
This site officially rebranded Tampa Bay Independent Film. Thumbnail array
leading to our online film festival, the Connected Film Festival, which
is on a separate, affiliated web site, is now active and online. -
10/07/23/1328/
Today we officially rebranded
this web site, which had been the Tampa Bay Film site since 2013, Tampa
Bay Independent Film. Our online film festival, the Connected Film Festival,
which launched three days ago on October 4, 2023, is now operational,
and we activated our thumbnail array above to link to the featured film
section of that web site.
NOTICE:
New remastered Tampa Bay Film online and operational. About to be updated
with new content. -
04/02/23/2031/
The new remastered Tampa
Bay Film site has been online now for almost four weeks,
launched on March 6, 2023. It is about to have new content added.
The Florida Film Blog and other independent film support web sites will
be launched in the Fall of 2023.
NOTICE:
New remastered Tampa Bay Film site about to launch, but with a design
based on the Tampa Film Blog site, although the remaster of the original
site was done. Tampa Film Blog site from 2008-2012 resurrected and is
now online. -
03/08/23/0303/
Yesterday, with the design
and the coding of the remastered Tampa Bay Film site done and with adding
content underway, we were looking at the old Tampa Film Blog site, as
the original plan was to add that old content to the new blog on Tampa
Bay Film over time. Upon looking at it, with the Templates to the images
lost and some of the information dated to when it was posted, we decided
to simply buy the domain name again and to relaunch the old site, as we
didn't want to bother with it (The same thing may be going on over at
Frontier Pop, which will resume updates and the monthly publication of
issues before Polyvinci begins the publication of its monthly issues and
Deranged Fanboys begins its weekly publication. There is little point
in doing the lost issues. Frontier Pop will probably be reset, with the
old content remaining on the site, but not emphasized or referenced from
the new issues). The Tampa
Film Blog is what it is, and while we may go through
it over time and clean up old links, we won't be doing much with it but
making it available. New blog posts will be on Tampa Bay Film,
This site will soon be updated as Tampa Bay Independent Film. Reviews,
such as film festival coverage, will be removed from this site, updated,
and then published on Tampa Bay Film. We have different plans for this
site which will over lap with Tampa Bay Film and the other independent
film resource sites.
At any rate, while looking at the Tampa Film Blog site, we realized that
we liked the design and the buttons, as well as the colors, better, and
the thumbnails on the remastered original site were pointless, and we
decided to remove them. That's when we decided to go with an updated version
of the Tampa Film Blog design, knowing that it would only add a day or
two more of development time.
Now we go with an announcement that we didn't include in the title header
above for this post.
Passinault is now making films, and he is getting attacked by people associated
with filmmakers that he has issues with over those films. Passinault has
left these people alone for the past seven years, and they keep running
their mouths, spreading lies about him, blaming him him for things that
he didn't do (Passinault gave one of them a domain name, and the filmmaker
turned around and name dropped him in a social media post, blaming him
for something that happened that Passinault had nothing to do with. The
filmmaker and Woods then blocked Passinault. What's funny about that is
that someone else, and not Passinault, was responsible, and we have no
idea who they are, but its conformation that people out there hate them
for whatever reason. Why the filmmaker would have blamed Passinault after
Passinault gave him the domain name didn't make sense, however, but the
accusation was not appreciated, as Passinault had been trying to let things
settle down over a period of several years and make peace with these people.
We now see that this isn't possible, and we now choose to follow through
on plans to impose checks and balances on the market that these people
are going to hate, because they will be forced to deal with them).
These attacks will not be tolerated.
That's a reason why we decided to resurrect the Tampa Film Blog. We will
also be doing something that will have some dramatic effects on what these
people do and what they have done. We predict that they will soon make
some of the films that they have done unavailable for some weird reason,
and it will be amusing.
The bottom line is that we don't care what these people think. We will
never work with them, and they have made it perfectly clear that they
will never work with us. The truth is that we don't need them, and never
will.
There will be no peace, and these filmmakers will be held accountable
for what they do.
NOTICE:
Working on the "new" vintage Tampa Bay Film site and the next
generation online film festival, the Connected Film Festival. Advanced
independent filmmaking formats defined and now testing. -
03/05/23/0315/0337/
We are
now building these two sites, with an updated layout design for the new
online film festival. This site will become Tampa Bay Independent Film
once the "new" Tampa Bay Film site is online. We are also working
on Indie Film Auteur, which will be our main independent film resource
site. We have two other local independent film resource sites in the works,
as well. In other news, this one being a local note, Passinault has begun
production of independent film, completing a nano indie film, and, yesterday,
on March 3, 2023, he had several breakthroughs which tie in directly with
recent investments in independent filmmaking gear and research, which
make independent film production easier, lower cost, faster, more innovative,
and higher in quality and content than most independent films made now,
without the logistics and the large crews. What do you suppose will happen
when you can make more films faster that are higher quality? It would
be like the advent of the modern assembly line as compared to a company
building one thing at a time. Passinault was able to justify the thousands
invested into gear over the past five years because he is integrating
video into his businesses and other web sites. Unlike most independent
filmmakers, as well, he is truly independent, able to make high quality
independent films by himself faster and with more innovation; he is not
dependent upon others to make films, and this is a major advantage. Another
major advantage that he has is that he can produce independent films without
attracting attention on location (thanks to his two decades of experience
as a location photographer), and doesn't have to work with unions and
doesn't need red tape such as permits (We would like to see a law that
states that you require a permit and what the penalties are, as we haven't
been able to find any, although this is moot when it's tough to prove
that an independent film is being made and, after it is done, where it
was done, in the case of things such as actual locations, and not views
from public locations). These new types of independent films are classified,
and are trade secrets. Additionally, there is evidence that filmmakers
have been ripping off the few ideas for independent films that Passinault
has posted on social media. He will no longer be announcing what he is
working on publicly.
NOTICE:
Checks and Balances to be imposed upon local independent filmmakers with
an armada of effective new web sites, including over a dozen independent
film review web sites. -
01/06/23/0309/0441/0456/ - 01/07/23/0020/
Local
independent filmmakers and Tampa Bay are about to discover that the party
is over, and that they will be held accountable for what they do and HAVE
DONE. They will no longer be able to do whatever it is that they want
to, especially if it is at the expense of others; they will no longer
get away with exploiting actors and talent and slandering others to discredit
them. We are working on a large number of brand new independent film review
sites, for starters, all with content written specifically for each site
under pseudonyms made for that site. Each and every local film will see
multiple reviews on all of these sites, and those reviews, although written
differently, will all arrive at the same conclusion (there will be legal
disclaimers about the use of pseudonyms, as we don't want people to get
the wrong impression that all of these people are different people, especially
if we have advertising on the sites, although we won't reveal who these
writers are, as we don't want them harassed and attacked). Additionally,
and this is a big one, we will start asking, and getting people to wonder,
if the independent films that are available cross the line and are obscene.
If a local jury of peers could determine such films are obscene (and they
probably would), we will suggest that those filmmakers and anyone involved
be reported to law enforcement and the District Attorney for investigation.
Remember that freedom of speech is not protected if the content is determined
to be obscene. Some independent filmmakers may see fines and jail time
for the fantasies that they are obsessed with being made into films. We
think that they will look at their catalog of independent films that are
being sold and start yanking them off of the market, as it would be the
smart thing to do. Is it worth the risk?
We really do
support local independent film, but remember that support doesn't mean
supporting everything. If anything goes, nothing matters, and there have
to be standards. If you are cultivating a garden, do you allow the weeds
to grow? Think about it. If independent film in Tampa Bay is to be taken
seriously, things need to change. It's time to take out the trash.
NOTICE:
Updating and Migrating Web Sites. New Web Sites being built. Passinault
now making independent films. -
01/06/23/0309/0329/0347/0426/0441/ - 01/07/23/0020/
We are
in the process of updating web sites for 2023 and migrating them to a
new server (this site was already migrated, which is why it has been updated
recently). While we have to wait for later in 2023 for these older sites
(this one) to be overhauled and upgraded to next-generation talent resource
site standards, as we have to build and deploy a lot of new web sites
(and these old sites, such as this one, are being monitored by hostile
parties. We don't want to tip our hand on the rather nasty surprises,
which we have been working on since 2007, too early; good luck finding
most of the new sites, as you have to know specifically what their actual
target audience is looking for with the specific keywords being used to
find them) before we can do much with the older legacy sites, there are
a few exceptions. Without tipping our hand or revealing what we have been
working on, this site will be re branded Tampa Bay Independent Film by
January 11, 2023, the day that an updated, new Tampa Bay Film site that
emulates the classic design of the original site will be re launched under
its domain name (right now, Tampa Bay Film .Com forwards here); the newest
version of Tampa Bay Film will be a lot like Tampa Bay Modeling in design.
Expect the 1,600 page Tampa Film Blog, which has been intentionally kept
offline for over a decade, to be republished on that site over time (we
can't add too much content too quickly, as we want the search engines
to drink and savor every delicious word and properly index the blog content.
It needs to be read and referenced). Film festival reviews that were also
done for Tampa Bay Film will be published on this newest incarnation of
Tampa Bay Film, too (all of the Tampa Bay Film branded images on this
site will be removed from this site and will be used on Tampa Bay Film).
Keep in mind that the "new" Tampa Bay Film site is a secondary
resource web site and is expendable; we are not going to push that branding,
as it is contested. Tampa Bay Film will be a scrappy web site with powerful
scam-fighting tools and resources, as well as information, and will be
optimized to fight .
In related
news, our new main independent film resource web site, which will be revolutionary,
will be Indie Film Auteur (.Com), and will launch in a few weeks. Locally,
the main regional independent film resource site will be Tampa Bay Indie
Film, which is a brand new web site that will also launch in a few weeks.
Enjoy!
We have spent
the past five years, starting in 2017, investing in new computers and
support infrastructure to keep up with all of our web sites. All that
work is done. Prepare for lot of new web sites (redundancy is planned
in the construction and deployment of these new resource and support web
sites, some of which will be specifically created to fight scams and to
impose checks and balances upon markets and industries. Although cutting-edge
and 100 times more effective than our current sites, these sites are also
expendable, as they are low-cost and easy to make and maintain. We can
lose many of them and still keep on slugging it out) and lots of content.
A year from now, everything will be different, and better. This site,
as one of many examples, will be upgraded to next-generation talent resource
web site standards, with new content, tools, and tactics, by then. Oh,
and our new and improved online film festival will be online in a few
weeks. It will be called the Connected Film Festival. Keep checking back;
these are exciting times, and we look forward to expanding our support
of independent film in Tampa Bay. One more thing.... Passinault has invested
in thousands of dollars for independent film production infrastructure,
bringing down the cost of making innovative, high quality independent
films to practically nothing, with films being made quickly, efficiently,
and cost-effectively. He is working on some 4K films right now, and has
THREE independent film production rigs, including a stealth rig that can
be used to produce quality independent films discretely. He can make innovative,
high quality, revolutionary independent films quickly and inexpensively,
and can make over six ambitious short films a year and dozens of nano
films (a good film can be done in less than a week. The secret to making
good, cost-effective independent films is to write a good script and to
write it with realistic, inexpensive production in mind, which doesn't
mean cutting corners and compromising quality). He will be making films
in 2023, and they will debut free of charge on the Connected Film Festival.
New standards in local independent film are about to be set!
NOTICE:
This Tampa Bay Film site is about to change. -
06/02/22/1929
This
site, now known as Tampa Bay Film, which it has been since 2013, is about
to become Tampa Bay Independent Film. Tampa Bay Film will relaunched under
its domain name, mainly as an archive site, although it will be upgraded
as a responsive, mobile-friendly web site which will look like the original
Raptor Class site, and will be updated. We have another site, too, Tampa
Bay Indie Film, which will be brand new. Thus, this site is about to become
three.
There are more sites on the way, too, all using the latest next-generation
talent resource web site tactics and formats, and all being responsive
and mobile-friendly, including sites for new and established independent
filmmakers, independent film review sites, and independent film scam-busting
sites. We even have sites coming which will help filmmakers navigate the
dangers of networking with other filmmakers, which is an ongoing problem
with filmmakers trying to sabotage and slander anyone whom they feel that
they can’t compete with.
This is all coming the Summer of 2022.
NOTICE:
Tampa Bay Film to become three different, but related, web sites.
- 03/09/21/0432/0515
We know
that it has been roughly 3 ½ years since our last update, but a
lot has been going on behind the scenes, as the independent film conflict
in Tampa Bay is ongoing and continues into its 14th year.
There is now end in sight for the war, and we are actually dramatically
increasing assets to wage it, with the Tampa Bay Independent Film sites
to incorporate next-generation talent resource site formats, tactics,
and resources, that new standard secretly in development since 2007. Ironically,
much of that development resulted from what was learned in the experiences
of the indie film war, as it was much more fierce than any conflict with
modeling and talent scams, as the players took it personally and fought
back any way that they could.
The indie film war proved to be extremely valuable in developing next-generation
talent resource sites.
Then we come to why the site is going to become three different, but related,
web sites.
Tampa Bay Film has been our brand since 2006, and we will continue to
maintain that brand, although there are potential conflicts from something
with a similar brand, consisting of a rearrangement of words, that we
are going to be in vigorous conflict with, and that brand has been in
play just a little longer than ours. Because of that, the Tampa Bay Film
brand is not as strong as it could be, and we don’t want to put
all of our proverbial eggs into that basket. If we were to operate under
that branding and continue to build it, it would be too tempting of a
target to go after in ways that would up the stakes, and we don’t
want to be an easy target, as we don’t want to be silenced. That
is the reason that the site will become three.
It’s also the reason that we haven’t had any updates on the
site for several years, as we had to come up with a solid strategy before
we did a lot of work on the site, which will now be sites. You don’t
put a lot of work into something that you would later have to undo or
change.
When Tampa Bay Film launched in January of 2007, It was a web site under
its domain name. By 2012, however, that site took some damage in search
rankings because of things that were done to it by our opponents, which
is why we moved the site under the Tampa Bay Independent Film domain name
in 2013. That move proved to be very successful over the years.
Soon, in 2021, Tampa Bay Film will be relaunched as a stand-alone web
site under its original domain name. As this site will be smaller and
more belligerent than the other sites, it will be more... Expendable.
It will also be built to fight, and will have some serious teeth to back
up its bark, a tough little site that will be built to wage war. Of course,
the past eight years have also restored that domain name to be used as
a stand-alone site, again, instead of forwarding to the Tampa Bay Independent
Film web site.
The “new” Tampa Bay Film site will look like the original
site, but will be built as a clean sheet from the ground up with the latest
tactics and content under the hood. It will also be a responsive site
which is mobile-friendly, using the cutting-edge upcoming Raptor 4 variant
of the Raptor Class site (used by other scrappy talent resource sites
such as Tampa Bay Modeling), with three different layouts for desktop,
tablet, and mobile (smart) phones, the layout instantly configuring to
the best layout depending upon the device being used to view it.
Tampa Bay Independent Film will be rebranded to match its domain name,
and will become the main independent film resource and directory web site
for the Tampa Bay region, and it will be more review orientated and won’t
be into fighting scams as much as Tampa Bay Film will be (and some other
sites that we are working on, such as Film Scams). It will be massive
site, with a lot of information on the local independent film industry,
the players, and the films.
The completely new site in the works to be added to the trio will be our
upcoming Tampa Bay Indie Film site, which will be more upbeat and positive.
It won’t touch anything that is outright controversial or inflammatory,
and will be the main marketed web site
More on this, later.
NOTICE:
Local Independent Film conflict to enter its 10th year.
- 10/16/17/0615
The independent
film war between Tampa Bay Film and some players, including new opponents,
in the Tampa Bay independent film scene is now going into its 10th year.
This ongoing conflict, which began in 2008, fulfilled most of its goals
by 2012, after four years, crippling our opponents. With no one willing
to sit down and reach a resolution, however, the conflict continued on
as a cold war for several years, and then warmed up again in 2015 with
renewed conflict with the successors of some of our original opponents.
There is no end in sight, and Passinault recently approved new tactics
and resources toward a fight which may last at least another decade, as
toxic elements in the local independent film scene have to be kept in
check even after most of the current players have left the stage.
Passinault has sworn that he will do whatever it takes to ensure that
what happened to him does not happen to anyone else, and this ongoing
conflict will accomplish that.
With the new tactics, Passinault will remove the names of filmmakers from
anecdotes and direct criticism from Tampa Bay Film and our affiliated
web sites, switching to the pattern analysis system used by his other
talent resource web sites (Content on at least two sites publishing anecdotes
about several filmmakers will be removed and the content will change).
This will help remove the perception of bias and axe grinding, boosting
credibility, especially with the coming reviews, and will enhance our
ability to do something about the issues with the market and with the
industry.
This will be especially important with more aggressive tactics that will
be used, such as calling scams, well, scams. We want to enhance our leverage
and reduce the risk of our opponents being able to hit us back; we will
enhance our effectiveness in a sustainable, cost-effective manner while
reducing our risk.
Next-generation talent resource web site tactics, tools, and resources
will be directly adapted to Tampa Bay Film, the Tampa Bay Film web sites,
and our upcoming independent film resource web sites, such as Independent
Film Revolution, which will be our new main independent film resource
web site.
With the new tactics and the commitment of dramatically expanded resources,
we will shift the fight in 2018, our 10th year of conflict, from making
specific parties accountable to addressing the market and the industry
as a whole, and it will force our opponents to change what they do. They
will be forced to change the way that they do things, because if they
do not the behavior patterns that we will warn people about will stick
to them, defining them, and will prove us right. Likewise, independent
filmmakers will be forced to up their game in order to compete with the
new generation of talented, skilled, professional independent filmmakers
who will prove to be extremely tough to compete with.
They will have no choice.
Speaking of filmmakers and of independent films, Passinault has announced
that he will be making independent films and video games about his experiences
with local independent film, which should prove to be interesting. Names
and likenesses will be changed, however, and everything will be declared
“coincidental”, although many will wonder how much is true.
Also, we will be working with our sister talent resource web sites and
our audition, casting, and job web sites to discourage actors and talent
from getting involved with high-risk, low quality independent films. Many
local filmmakers are going to find it to be very difficult to get anything
done because they will be cut off from people, and they are welcome.
NEWS: New Security
Protocols in Force. Tampa Bay Film now secondary site. -
10/16/17/0614
IEffective
immediately, new security protocols are in place for our independent film
projects.
Tampa Bay Film is also no longer our main independent film resource web
site. That has changed.
Security protocols engineered for Aurora PhotoArts, including the ones
for the secret Shimmerworks research and development program, have been
ported over to and adapted for the independent film projects of Matchhead
Films, Throat Ripper Films, and any related independent film production
businesses, both current and future. Likewise, the documentation protocols
for the independent film work has been ported to and adapted for Aurora
PhotoArts.
All of our business assets are in synch.
What this means is that the independent film projects of our production
companies, while they will still be heavily documented, will be highly
classified and kept secret. The video, photographic, and technical documentation
will keep our options open to how to use that material, such as tutorials,
but if we do ever release that to the public it will be long after the
project has been produced.
In other news, Tampa Bay Film is no longer our main independent film resource
web site. It is still important and will still ne updated with new content
and tools, but we have new independent film resource web sites on the
way which will take over the function of being our main web site.
That site will be Independent Film Revolution.
Tampa Bay Film, Florida Independent Film, and Tampa Film Revolution will
become Independent Film Revolution web sites.
Crowd
Funding Independent Horror Films: Don’t Cry 200 Tears. Make It Happen.
- 11/12/16/0623
Tampa
independent horror filmmakers Marcus Koch and Joe Davison try to raise
money for 200 Tears, the sequel to their cult classic 100 Tears, while
Chris Woods succeeds in raising enough money to complete his film, Chaos
A.D. .
NOTICE:
Preparation for Passinault’s
first films underway. Taking out the local independent film trash and
predatory film schools to pave the way for the next generation of local
filmmakers, the establishment of the first independent film community,
and the founding of a genuine, respectable, groundbreaking independent
film industry in Tampa Bay. -
11/07/16/0607
NOTICE:
Segmented Content Structure. Additional Web Sites in Development.
- 10/17/16/0617
Tampa
Bay Film, and our additional support web sites, will be organizing information
in different categories, and will cross reference all relevant information
to make is easy for our readers to use our web sites as a research tool.
As an example, general information about filmmakers and their films will
be published in the filmmakers section. There will be links to reviews
of the filmmaker, as well as their films, in the review section. Production
companies (Regardless of if they are licensed or not) will also cross
reference with additional relevant content in other organizational categories.
This information, however, will not link to our other web sites, to avoid
the issues that came up in 2012 with the array of Super Raptor web sites
which Tampa Bay Film was then using. Redundant information, to avoid duplicate
content issues, will be rewritten for each web site.
Oh, and a lot of additional web sites are coming, many of them built for
and specifically optimized for targeted keywords, and these web sites
will have no competition (they will be online in an uncontested search
environment, and will be at the top of search results for those key words
by default). Some of the new web sites, with no need for a built-in online
film festival like the Revolution Class web site which Tampa Bay Film
currently uses, will be mobile-friendly, as well.
NOTICE:
Local Independent Film conflict to enter its 9th year.
- 10/17/16/0540
In 2007,
Tampa Bay Film was not welcomed by the local independent film scene when
it launched in January of that year. The online film festival launched
with the site, and it quickly came into conflict with a copy cat online
film festival started by two filmmakers. The Tampa Bay Film Online Film
Festival defeated that upstart rival in short order, however, within a
few months, as it proved that it was up to the challenge presented by
the copy cat online film festival (speaking of which, the online film
festival ran for several years successfully as the top Florida film festival,
and it has been offline since this new Tampa Bay Film web site came online
under its new operating domain name in 2013. The online film festival
will soon return).
C. A. Passinault, the founder of this web site, experienced slander and
discrimination from a group of independent filmmakers, and they quickly
found out that they started a fight with the wrong person. By the end
of 2007, war was declared, and the Tampa Bay independent film war began
in January 2008 with a scathing review of the many problems with the flawed
monthly film festival, the Tampa Film Review.
Passinault began to criticize the filmmakers and ask questions.
The first two years of that war were tough, but the Tampa Film Review
finally shut down in January 2009 as, in our opinion, a failure, and a
blogger who endlessly kissed the butts of local filmmakers was finally
inspired to quit. In 2011, a pop culture web site, a source of much of
the trouble, could not compete with Passinault’s Frontier Pop web
site, and the editor quit.
The independent film war cooled down by 2011 and 2012, and it was seen
by many that the conflict was over, with Tampa Bay Film and Passinault
victorious.
Hostility toward Passinault and the site continued, however, and he had
some rather unpleasant encounters with filmmakers in 2011 and in 2012.
A situation of unending hostility and conflict remained, although Passinault’s
opposition was disorganized and broken, at best.
In 2014, with some of Passinault’s opponents regrouping, and another
local filmmaker being bullied by them, Passinault stepped in and told
them that he would put them in their place, again, if they did not leave
the filmmaker alone.
The result was a renewed conflict, which Passinault and Tampa Bay Film
won, again.
2016 has been interesting. A filmmaker attacked Passinault on Facebook
for no reason, and filmmaker Stephen Biro also cursed Passinault out months
later, in September, on Facebook; these attacks were unwarranted and unprovoked,
as Passinault had been polite and pleasant to both filmmakers, and even
helped some out. After looking into some things, Passinault had some revelations
about some of the mysteries of 2007 that sparked the original conflict
of 2008, as well as some other things.
That is when we decided to suspend support of the local independent film
scene, and Passinault decided to increase working against some of the
parties involved.
Tampa Bay Film has been conducting ongoing operations against elements
of the local film scene in 2014, for two years, now, and there is no end
in sight.
Passinault has decided to increase activity aimed to clean up the local
independent film scene to pave the way for a genuine independent film
community in the near future. Additional Tampa Bay Film web sites are
in development to assist in these operations, which include upcoming sites
Florida Independent Film and Independent Film Revolution.
Passinault has committed to the ongoing conflict as long as it takes,
and plans on making independent films and other projects covering the
problems with local independent film; the world will know what happened.
.
NOTICE:
Working on restoring content. Reviews and blog posts coming.
- 10/17/16/0436
For some
reason (we cleaned up some files back in July and may have accidently
deleted some content and links), some complete film festival reviews were
removed from the site, and we are looking into restoring that content.
We are also working on a lot of reviews, and have literally hundreds of
reviews planned.
Tampa Bay Film will be THE web site to find our more about independent
films made in the Tampa Bay area and to read reviews and other information
about them.
Although it is our opinion that Chris Woods is barely an independent filmmaker
anymore, because we do not think that his Sleazebox trash are worthy of
the term independent films, we will be reviewing all of his “films”,
and will make sure that everyone knows about our opinion about that work.
There used to be a time, back in 2009, when Chris Woods was the most talented
and promising independent filmmaker in the Tampa Bay area, with works
of genius such as White Lie and Spaventare (Spaventare being the one which
he removed any mention of Passinault from in a recent compilation, which,
in our opinion, is unprofessional and one of the worst things that a filmmaker
can do). It is also our opinion that Chris Woods was corrupted by peer
pressure when he began working with John Miller, and that Woods demonstrated
that he was a follower who would sell out to what Miller wanted to do,
making Woods one of the worst filmmakers in the Tampa Bay area, as he
lost “his” voice when it came to his work. It is also our
opinion that his Sleazebox brand, which we can’t seem to find any
mention of as a licensed business (correct us if we are wrong, and we
will retract that. There are lots of other Sleazebox businesses out there,
however), was perfectly named, too.
That said, Chris Woods is still the best editor in the local independent
film scene, as that is what is does all day, every day, at his day job.
Going back to web site content, archived blog posts from the old Tampa
Film Blog will soon be added on a regular basis, as well.
NOTICE:
Film Festivals, Events, and Assistance Suspended. -
07/23/16/0457
Effective
immediately, the film festivals and events of Tampa Bay Film, as well
as our assistance to most local independent filmmakers in the Tampa Bay
area, have been suspended.
While Tampa Bay Film supports independent film in Tampa Bay, we do not
believe that supporting most current local independent filmmakers is supportive
of independent film, as we do not believe that most of them know what
they are doing (Being able to make an independent film does not count)
or actually support independent film. Most of those filmmakers, in our
opinion, support the bottom of the barrel of independent film and their
own agendas, more often than not at the expense of others. Most of them,
too, in our opinion, attack and discriminate against talented supporters
and filmmakers whom can actually advance independent film in Tampa Bay.
This has been an issue since 2006, and it will not go away anytime soon
as long as insecure, petty, neurotic, unprofessional, unethical, no-talent
independent filmmakers are in the majority.
One local “filmmaker” is promoting the Tampa Bay area as “the
gore and sleaze capital of the world”, which is not something that
independent filmmakers should be proud of. If the industry is to ever
take independent film in Tampa Bay seriously, we need to define ourselves
more appropriately with a wide range of genres and good, cost-effective,
innovative independent films in those genres.
Catering to the lowest common denominator is a mistake, and it would be
a mistake to define independent film in Tampa Bay that way. These fools
either don’t care or don’t comprehend, and that is bad for
local independent film.
Recently, another independent filmmaker, a good one, attacked me out of
the blue on Facebook, with no provocation (I did not start anything with
him, and had always treated him with respect and was friendly with him).
He basically stated that I was “not important”, and also attacked
me with a series of attempts at insults. Well, everyone is important,
and no one should ever be discriminated against; this filmmaker, in my
opinion, is an idiot and a follower who is easily lead by others. I suspect
that he not only listened to the lies that others spread about me, but
that he also suspected that I persuaded an actress to avoid a role in
one of his films (That has actually happened a few times with more than
one filmmaker. Actors contact me and want my opinion about whether a role
is good for them or not. In more than one instance, the filmmaker thought
that they were negotiating with the actor, when they were, in fact, negotiating
with me by proxy, pretty much the same way that I have done televison
interviews by proxy through models and talent and gave them the answers
to the topics; my words, their voices. In one instance, the actress texted
my words under her name exactly as I instructed to the filmmaker. These
were negotiations which had outcomes which the filmmaker did not want,
like, or appreciate, and it changed the course of several independent
film projects. I will not say if the suspicions that this filmmaker had
are true or not, but whatever happened had to happen that way). It was
an undeserved and unpleasant interaction, although the debate that he
started was easily won by me. I basically stated I did not answer to him,
too, and this was all too true.
I will also be withdrawing my assistance to most local independent filmmakers,
especially when most of them repay help with slander about you (the last
two film projects that I was involved with, as far as I know, were OK,
however). I have better things to do.
That said, I will still be reviewing independent films and will be attending
some film festivals to cover them for Tampa Bay Film, although I will
be covering only one film festival this year.
The Tampa Bay independent film war that was fought from 2008 until 2012,
and won by Tampa Bay Film, will continue. We will continue to voice out
concerns about independent film in Tampa Bay, and will also mobilize our
sister talent resource site to assist us in cutting of unprofessional
filmmakers from actors, talent, and crew (Tampa Bay Talent, Tampa Bay
Acting, Tampa Bay Auditions, Independent Acting, Florida Actors, Tampa
Bay Entertainment Industry, Florida Independent Film, Florida Entertainment
Industry, Independent Film Revolution, Tampa Film Revolution, and other
sites will join us in this long term campaign to educate actors, talent,
and others about independent film in Tampa Bay).
We will prepare the Tampa Bay area for a new generation of independent
filmmakers who will actually advance independent film in our market. -
C. A. Passinault
- 09/30/16/0421
NOTICE:
Tampa Bay Film Updates Resume. Supporting Independent Film.
- 07/13/16/0545
We waited
a few years before we moved content from the Tampa Film Blog to this new
Tampa Bay Film site. Now is the time.
We will begin regular updates with content from our archives, of which
there are over 700 pages. We will also soon publish the remaining reviews
of film festivals and reviews of things such as independent films.
We have a massive library of local independent films. We have watched
most of them. Sadly, the reviews won’t be ones that the filmmakers
are going to like, as it is our opinion that the majority of independent
films now being made in the Tampa Bay area are absolute garbage, with
no artistic merit or quality whatsoever. This is going to change, as it
is our opinion that no one respects independent films made in the Tampa
Bay area, nor do they respect local independent filmmakers, and that this
lack of respect is well deserved.
We support independent film. We really do. It is just that you cannot
support something if you support everything (something that Lisa never
understood), especially elements which undermine that support. Like someone
cultivating a garden, the only way that you are going to have a successful
and productive garden is to do some weeding. You simply have to be selective,
and to call things as you see them, which, in our opinion, is actually
how they are.
The following is our professional opinion.
Chris Woods used to be a good independent filmmaker. He has a lot of talent
and was actually making some good independent films (Bleed was a decent
film, and both Spaventare and White Lie were brilliant. Another great
Chris Woods film, done under his Icon Film Studios brand, was To Live
is to Die). He is also undoubtably the best film editor in the Tampa Bay
area. What is tragic, however, is that, in our opinion, he sold out. His
most recent films have been absolute trash (Whatever happened to his independent
films which had good stories such as POP? Did he simply give up?). It
is our opinion that his actors, too, other than four of them, are terrible,
and that they have no talent or skill; which may explain why he wants
them to take their clothes off. An actress recently told us that the work
that he is doing is “revolting”, which probably explains why
Woods has to cast the same “actors” in the his films over
and over again. In our opinion, he can’t get real actors, other
than the four who are actually good, and all of those are men.
We have seen better acting in adult films, which shouldn’t be allowed
to have acting.
Don’t take our word for it, however. Feel free to go to the Sleazebox
web site and check out films such as “Naughty, Dirty, Nasty,”,
“$kumbagz”, and “Amerikan Holokaust” (that latter
film which, in our opinion, has a woman eating out of a dog bowl who looks
like road kill). See these “actresses” “act”,
and make up your own mind. Good luck making those women scream queens,
Woods! (Disclaimer: We are not endorsing these films or recommending that
anyone watch them. We merely want people to judge for themselves. Our
suggestion to go check out the films is not literal, and is not advice).
We would not cast his actresses in independent films if someone paid us,
because it is our opinion that they would cripple the films, and this
is coming from someone with over 23 years of experience as a casting director,
as well as professional experience as an actor.
Chris Woods is not going to like our reviews of his latest films, which,
in our opinion, are his way of living out his fantasies. Although Woods
has done some things that may lead some to believe that we have an axe
to grind, we simply don’t. We need to tell it how it is; if Chris
Woods actually made a good film, we would be absolutely happy to give
that film a good review. We will certainly qualify the opinions that we
express in our reviews, too, so that our readers can see how we arrived
at our opinions; that our opinions are qualified.
The only way that we can establish a productive independent film community
and, eventually, an industry here in Tampa Bay is to do some weeding.
We may not be able to support what filmmakers like Chris Woods are doing,
but we know that there are independent filmmakers who will become established
in the coming months and years who will be worth supporting, and those
filmmakers will force people like Chris Woods to shape up and to make
good independent films in order to compete.
Tampa Bay Film is in the exciting position to see this all unfold as time
goes on, and we will do our part to support independent film in Tampa
Bay.
In other news, we are planning on getting our online film festival online
and operational again by the Fall of 2016. Each film will have an associated
film review and other supporting content.
- 07/13/16/0545
NOTICE:
As we prepare to resume updates on Tampa Bay Film.......
- 06/13/16/0732
First,
we had an article in the Tampa Bay Times about the Tampa Bay area being
the “hottest cult horror movie scene in the country”,
and we really have to wonder about some things.
Do we really want independent film in Tampa Bay to be known for horror,
cult, and exploitation films? While there is nothing wrong with these
films in general when they are produced by filmmakers whom are actually
talented, it is our opinion that the lack of quality independent films
in our market has opened the door to the garbage of independent film.
This is going to change. In many ways, through, we are glad that low-rent
fanboys-turned independent filmmakers are making their fantasies come
to life on the small screen. When real independent filmmakers make quality
films in our market, they will literally have no competition.
There will be future independent filmmakers which will produce some truly
quality and innovative films in the genres of cult, horror, and exploitation,
however, and it is our opinion that those fimmakers will not be the current
ones. In anticipation of those future days, we have thought ahead and
have invested in a series of domain names, which also have the bonus of
blocking a group of no-talent fanboys from the use of those names.
Also, a convention of sorts has come to our attention, and that event,
coming up in August 2016, is Tampa Bay Screams.
We have no plans on attending or covering this event, but encourage others
to check it out and make up their minds for themselves. Is this what will
put independent film in Tampa Bay on the map? Do you want our area to
be known for films like that?
Let us know what you think.
In other news, we are working on getting the rest of our film festival
reviews up, as well as getting our online film festival back online. We
are also working on adding tools and resources to Tampa Bay Film.
- 06/13/16/0748
NOTICE:
Chris Woods removed Passinault from the credits of Spaventare, and people
deserve to know why. -
12/24/15/0541
We
do not want to call anyone out or trash them. Except for in this case
(and we are not trashing them), especially since there is indisputable
proof, and this filmmaker is going to be known for what he did. We have
never seen any filmmaker do this to a contributor to any local independent
film project before, and it is inexcusable and outrageous.
THIS IS WRONG! PERIOD. THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST THINGS THAT AN INDEPENDENT
FILMMAKER CAN DO TO SOMEONE WHO HELPS THEM, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF MAKING
UP LIES AND SPREADING THOSE LIES ABOUT THEM.
Since Chris Woods, in our opinion, does not want to be professional about
this and refuses to discuss it like a responsible adult, we are going
to make a big deal out of it; the deal that it deserves to be, as it is
our opinion that it directly reflects upon the character and the integrity
of the filmmaker. After all, if he did this to Passinault in his attempt
at revisionist history, what will he do to others?
If Woods wishes to make this a legal issue, we welcome a call from his
Attorney, especially since there are now copyright issues regarding the
use of pictures taken by Passinault, too. Woods does NOT have permission
to use the pictures that Passinault took if Passinault is not credited
for those pictures and for his help, which were the terms of use for Passinault’s
contribution. PASSINAULT OWNS THE COPYRIGHTS TO THESE PICTURES! These
pictures are used in a bonus features gallery on the DVD of the Make Them
Die Sleazy compilation, a reissue of the Spaventare film (and it is our
opinion that Sarah is probably thrilled about being in such trash company
on that compilation, which is full of poor films with roadkill actors,
as her credit was also used in the credits of the compilation as a whole,
which is NOT what was agreed upon when the film was made. Expect context,
reissue, usage, and credit agreements/ contracts/ releases to arise from
this fiasco, and these forms will be made available free of charge to
print out and use here on Tampa Bay Film, as it seems that people like
to find loopholes to exploit if allowed, again, in our opinion).
In 2009, back when they were talking and before Woods got mad at him for
some unknown reason, Chris Woods was talking to C. A. Passinault about
a short independent film that he was working on. That independent film
was Spaventare.
Woods was aware that Passinault was friends with an actress from an MTV
series that he had been watching. That actress was Sarah Bray, who had
been a headshot client of Passinault years before, and who later became
friends with Passinault before she briefly moved to Los Angeles. Sarah
later moved back to the Tampa By area.
Woods asked Passinault if he could get in touch with Sarah and have her
perform in his latest film. Passinault, aware that Woods had a solid catalogue
of quality, innovative work in independent film with classics like “Bleed”
and “To Live is to Die”, agreed to do so.
So, Passinault talked to Sarah about acting in the film, and he vouched
for Chris Woods. Sarah agreed. Woods also asked Passinault to do still
photography on the set, which Passinault agreed to.
Chris Woods has a history of padding credits in his films; he would thank
the Crickets chirping in the lawn outside his apartment if they were relevant,
in his mind, to the production of the film, in our opinion. With Spaventare,
which is a classic and something to be proud of with a cast of two and
a crew of four, Woods did something that was a bit odd. He credited all
of the people in a photograph, a photograph used as a visual prop on a
computer screen, as “actors” (Jerry Caldarise, Francesca Grarrido,
Kerry Hunt, Melissa Webb, and Suzanne Wieland, despite what the credits
claim, DID NOT ACT IN THE FILM!) , and credited Corinne Broskette from
the Venue Actors Studio, some casting director associated with them, as
part of the casting team. The result was that the cast of two suddenly
became a cast of seven in the credits, and a casting director who had,
in our opinion and to our knowledge, as she may have supplied the photograph
for all that we know (and this would NOT have warranted a “casting”
credit, just like those padded names in the cast credits had nothing to
do with actual actors who acted in the film) had nothing to do with the
film or its cast shared casting credits with Passinault and Woods.
It is our opinion that this “credit padding” is an attempt
to make people think that the production was larger and more important
than it actually was, as in the old saying “a cast of thousands”,
and that it would be extremely problematic if this information was used
to sell the film, as information used to sell anything has to be accurate
and not misleading in any way.
The truth of the matter was that Passinault, who is also an experienced
casting director, cast half of Spaventare, and there would not have been
a Spaventare, as it currently is, without Passinault, who directly referred
Sarah to the production. Woods brought Rod Grant into the production,
and that was it. The actual casting was evenly divided between Passinault
and Woods. Those extra five “actors” and the extra casting
director were, in our opinion, just as much as a phantom as the spectre
that Grant played, but in a literal, and not fictional, sense.
Going back to the credit issue pertaining to Passinault, Chris Woods DID
originally, and properly, credit Passinault in the first release of Spaventare,
and this can be confirmed both online, in the few areas in which the film
is online, as Woods took it down from his Youtube channel, and in the
Spaventare “bonus” short in the DVD for the Brainjacked independent
film from the Film Ranch, a really good independent film which Chris Woods
edited (it is also our opinion that Chris Woods is the best independent
film editor in the Tampa Bay area, but that is beside the point of this
post, and being an excellent editor does not excuse him from this issue).
When Woods teamed up with John Miller and formed The Sleazebox, which
is, in our opinion, notorious for producing some of the worst and most
crass independent films ever made in the Tampa Bay area (one film, in
particular, crossed the line of good taste, and we are wondering if it
is breaking obscenity laws. That film is Amerikan Holokaust, and we are
glad that we are not connected to that film in any way, which, in our
opinion, we consider to be garbage), he and Miller decided to do a compilation
of short independent films. These short independent films would consist
of the Sleazebox shorts and some of Woods' short films, which included
Spaventare.
- 03/30/16/0130
NOTICE:
Dealing with local independent filmmakers. -
11/17/15/0609
Although we will be
reviewing all aspects of the local independent film scene here on Tampa
Bay Film, and will be having fun with the reviews of things of poor quality,
we have seen enough material, such as independent films, lately, to be
able to decide on a policy here at Tampa Bay Film.
We will no longer allocate resources to calling out people and in doing
anything to them which can be perceived as an attack. Those operations
end, now.
We simply don’t want to trash anyone.
First of all, these people do a far better job of undermining themselves
than we could ever do. Others arrive at their own conclusions about these
people and their work on their own, without us having to say anything.
There are professional actors who want nothing to do with some independent
filmmakers, and that alone is good enough for us.
Secondly, calling these people out by name mainly states the obvious,
and when they do fail, which they will, they blame us for it. We will
no longer set ourselves up to be a scapegoat for their failures, and when
they fail, we want them to realize that they alone failed, and no one
else was responsible for the issues that they are having.
Thirdly, our credibility is in question when it looks as if we have an
axe to grind. We don’t, and form now on, we will avoid situations
where it looks like we are attacking anyone.
Opponents do a good enough job on their own making themselves looks bad.
NOTICE:
Updating support content. -
11/17/15/0553
While we are writing
reviews for film festivals and independent films, we are going to be updating
support content, with profiles for subjects such as independent filmmakers
and local independent film production companies.
We are going to start with the existing tags here on the front page, and
then will make content sections for the tags at the bottom of the page.
These content sections will link to other relevant sections such as reviews.
We will be covering as much as we can about the local independent film
scene.
In other news, we will have more reviews up this week.
NOTICE:
Get everything in writing when dealing with independent filmmakers in
Tampa Bay! -
11/11/15/0535/0615
Passinault is having
an issue at the moment where a filmmaker, for petty, and mostly unknown
reasons, cut him from the credits of a film where Passinault did still
photography and also cast half of the film; both the still photography
and the casting credits have been cut from a version of the film which
is in a compilation, and Passinault is no longer mentioned at all.
An attempted, friendly phone call last night (11/10/15) was met with rudeness
as the filmmaker hung up on Passinault, and Passinault, who owns the copyrights
to the photographs, which are being used by the filmmaker, may refer this
matter to his attorney, since cutting him from the credits is a violation
of the terms of use of his work, and may imply to the audience that the
still photography and the casting were done by the filmmaker, which is
completely incorrect, misleading, and unacceptable.
We live in a world here in the Tampa Bay independent film scene where
people use people, lie to them, steal from them, victimize them, and then
vilify their victims by slandering them. This will not stand.
One thing will result from this, for sure. It is now our opinion that
some independent filmmakers cannot be counted on to follow through on
collaboration agreements, and they cannot be trusted. Others will lie
to you and backstab you. Others will simply steal from you and then spread
lies about you in an attempt to discredit you further.
This is NO WAY to build an independent film community here in Tampa Bay,
and it undermines local independent film.
We will now recommend that everyone who collaborates or works on any independent
film project in the Tampa Bay area get everything is writing, and insist
that releases and written agreements are signed before working on any
independent film. We will make these releases, agreements, and documents
available free of charge here on Tampa Bay Film.
NOTICE:
Blog and News sections resume updates. -
11/03/15/0224/0237
Effective immediately,
we will reduce overall content added to the front page, and will resume
posting in our News and Blog sections on Tampa Bay Film. Long posts will
be formatted and published in the relevant sections.
This is to properly organize the site and prevent content overload on
the front page. It will also make it easier to navigate and use, especially
with all of the reviews that will be published on our site, which will
mainly be film festival coverage and reviews, as well as independent film
reviews. It also looks like we will be covering and reviewing our own
film festivals starting in 2016, beginning with the Coffeehouse Film Review
monthly film festivals and professional networking events.
All 1,000 + pages of the old Tampa Film Blog will be updated and added
to the Tampa Bay Film Blog, one post at a time, starting next week, too,
in addition to new posts.
NOTICE:
Researching copyright law in relation to film festivals and reviews, as
well as fair use. -
10/31/15/0551
This directly affects
our Sunburn Film Festival underground film festival and peer group review.
The Sunburn Film Festivals will be underground film festivals legally
defined as private viewing within a private residence, and not publically
marketed, or open to the public. The underground film festivals are only
covered as film festivals after the fact.
We will not be censored by filmmakers who are afraid of being reviewed
and with getting bad reviews, and will legally fight any challenges.
Filmmakers publically marketing themselves as filmmakers are public figures,
as well, and can be publically criticized.
Before we begin these underground film festivals, we will also obtain
an Umbrella License for exhibition from the Motion Picture Licensing Corporation,
or MPLC. This license will also cover our public film festivals and events,
and all parties submitting their films in our public film festivals and
events will be required to sign a legal waiver and a release permitting
the exhibition of their work, as well as the review of their work. We
will retain an attorney whom is an expert in entertainment and copyright
law for any legal issues, and all activity will be strictly performed
under our LLC.
Any films which, in our opinion, undermine the integrity of independent
film and may be in violation of State and Federal laws will be brought
to the attention of law enforcement and the appropriate authorities, which
include independent films which may be in violation of obscenity laws.
All reviews of independent films on Tampa Bay Film will be done from private
viewing, and the material used in the reviews are under fair use.
We will legally protect ourselves from unethical and unprofessional retribution
in layers of defense, and reserve the right to take legal action against
any party who violates our rights to freedom of speech, as well as our
rights under the freedom of the press.
All content in reviews are opinions of the reviewer, unless specifically
stated otherwise.
In order to improve the independent film scene, and the market, in Tampa
Bay, we must work to make everyone professionally accountable for what
they say, do, and for the work that they do. There have to be standards
of quality established and maintained. This is one of the jobs of Tampa
Bay Film.
OPINION:
The state of independent film in Tampa Bay 2015. -
10/30/15/0426
The following is our
opinion, and, hopefully, a wake up call for local independent filmmakers.
We really want to see you succeed, and we really want to be able to support
your work, but, ultimately, it is up to you. It is your choice.
While watching some local independent films while working on the review
for the 2015 Halloween Horror Picture Show film festival,
the thought that comes to mind is “What kind of crappy independent
film hell are we in in the Tampa Bay area?”
While some are watchable, and maybe even entertaining in spots, many are
a chore to watch, and are more unpleasant than anything else, even if
technically competent, which are the exception and not the rule.
Seriously, the independent film scene here is weak, with nothing but bottom
feeder, wannabe horror and exploitation films filling up the roster of
independent films being made here; it has been like that for the past
15 years, and, if something isn’t done, it will always be like that!
Even some of the best films ever made here would have a difficult
time competing with independent films made elsewhere. We
should know, because we buy, and watch, a lot of independent films and
movies. We study them. So should you.
Don’t any of you guys want to make a career out of this where you
can make a living doing what you love? Don’t you want to make independent
films that you can really be proud of?
You guys need to get serious and do something, before someone else does
it and you are left behind.
This is our opinion, but no wonder large film festivals such as Gasparilla
and Sunscreen don’t respect many of these
films. We would not, either. Actually, we don’t, and it makes our
job tough, because, with many of these films, we don’t want to give
them bad reviews.
Our opinions about these films, if you can call them that, are not just
ours. We have been getting complaints about local films for a
long time. The people that you want to work with
talk to us. Serious and professional actors
don’t want to get involved with the local film scene
(and we are working on a program to cut off some filmmakers from actors
and talent, which we have been effectively doing for a while now). Just
yesterday, communicating with a local actress, we ran some names of some
films that we were going to review by her. Her response was
that the names were horrible. We explained to her that we
considered those films to be the sewer of the independent film scene in
Tampa Bay (and they were Sleazebox releases,
for those who are wondering, which, also in our opinion, is a perfect
name to describe these films), and she said that it sounds like it (She
didn’t even want to watch them, let alone act in them,
and from what we have seen, it is our opinion that those sell outs need
good actors in their films). When the branding, the art direction on the
packaging, the script, the acting, and the independent film all suck,
you have problems, and a lot more problems than our opinions and about
having to worry about getting bad reviews. Even worse, we have had actresses
complain about local filmmakers wanting them to go topless or nude in
their films. Our advice? No independent film in the Tampa Bay area is
worth that if you have not done it. Actresses which have kept their clothes
on need to continue to keep their clothes on. Actresses which don’t
have issues with that need to be selective about the films that they do
and the context of their appearance in those films.
Something tells us that, in 2016, when our Sunburn underground
film festivals and peer group review events are happening,
that these independent films are going to get mauled, and mauled viciously.
There are also reports that local independent filmmakers are not making
the money back for their investors, for those films which have landed
investors. This is why those filmmakers are having a difficult time making
more films.
Seriously, things need to change, and they have to.
Please understand that we are not out to trash independent films in the
Tampa Bay area, even if we have issues with local filmmakers. For example,
in our opinion, we have issues with filmmaker Andrew Allan, but think
that his film Brainjacked is the best independent
film ever made in the Tampa Bay area. We really do support local independent
film and want it to succeed, as well as be respected. It’s just
that we would not be doing anyone any favors if we blindly liked and supported
everything, and it would, rightfully, undermine our credibility.
If you make a good film, we will admit it and will praise it, regardless
of our personal feeling toward you. If not, well, you are going to hear
about it from us, and you really need to think about upping your game.
This is true, especially, when we say that we are going to
start a second independent film scene, a professional one,
which will be populated by a new generation of HUNDREDS of
talented, innovative, hungry, aggressive independent filmmakers.
These filmmakers will be using our tactics, and are going to seize control
of the market. If the current independent film scene has any
hope to compete with our upcoming independent film scene, they need to
seriously shape up, because the Tampa Bay independent film market is going
to change.
NOTE: This is a quick post
on the front page of Tampa Bay Film. It will soon be expanded into a full
article.
NOTICE:
Working on reviews. -
10/29/15/0512
We attended and covered
the Halloween Horror Picture Show last Sunday
(We thought about doing the same with the “Florida Horror
Film Festival” the Sunday before, but didn’t
think that it was worth our time and effort. We will still do a write
up of film festivals that we have not attended, however, gathering information
from people who attended and then weighing in our opinion). We are now
working on the official review for Halloween Horror Picture
Show 2015, which should be up this weekend; support video
files from this event were uploaded and published on our Youtube account
last Monday, and can be viewed now; these reviews include a brilliant,
epic interview by Krista Grotte, who simply
stunned us with her inteview.
Reviews for Halloween Horror Picture Show 2014,
the first Rise of the Dead film festival, and
Rise of the Dead III should all be up next
week.
Reviews of independent films are also coming, including the films running
on our online film festival and independent films
from our massive, and growing, archive of independent films produced in
Tampa Bay. Chris Woods is not going to like
our Amerikan Holokaust and Naughty,
Dirty, Nasty reviews, which, in our opinion, are among the
worst independent films ever produced in Tampa Bay, and neither will those
“women” who he has convinced can be “actresses”.
Naughty, Dirty, Nasty is truly pathetic, too;
we haven’t been able to watch it all, yet, as it is extremely stupid,
and kept putting us to sleep.
On the plus side, Joel Wynkoop's Slasher Weekend
was a pleasant surprise, and we think that Brainjacked
is the best independent film ever produced in the Tampa Bay area.
REVIEW/ FILM FESTIVALS:
Fandomonium
in Tampa Bay. -
10/24/15/1045
Tampa Bay Film editor C. A. Passinault made a second journey to visit
the Tampa Pitcher Show to experience the first Fandomonium in Tampa Bay
event and film festival on Sunday, June 22, 2014. This review, exclusive
to Tampa Bay Film, contains cool pictures, video clips, and a review of
the event and some of the independent films.
TAGS: Reviews,
Film Festivals, Fandomonium in Tampa Bay, Rick Danford, Andy Lalino, Marcus
Kempton, Joel D. Wynkoop, Tampa Pitcher Show, C. A. Passinault
REVIEW/
FILM FESTIVALS: Halloween
Horror Picture Show 2013 Film Festival. -
10/22/15/0514
The review for the Halloween Horror Picture Show 2013
is now up, after a two year delay from us, and a five year delay from
organizer Danford. The videos, which we need to organize and do small
write ups of, will be added to this review later (although they are already
up on our Youtube account), as well as more information about the photographs.
We understand that it looks kind of sad that we are just now publishing
the review for HHPS 2013, but it will look better in a day or two as we
finish and publish more recent reviews which are almost complete and will
be finished in days, if not hours.
Check back tomorrow, that is, after you read this review.
The text for this post will change, soon.
NOTICE:
Sorting out technical problems. -
10/23/15/1511
We are experiencing technical problems with our file uploads, one of which
is in the case context of our links, which Dreamweaver should have adjusted
automatically. We also have issues with our formatting (which is weird)
and with missing files.
Please be patient. This should be resolved by tomorrow. We are working
hard to update the site.
We are obviously going to have to change around some directories, so if
you do manage to get to a working review or content, please do not book
mark it. - Updated 10/23/15/1534
NOTICE:
Passinault allocates resources to Tampa Bay Film web site.
- 10/23/15/0617
Today, Tampa Bay Film Director and Editor C. A. Passinault allocated up
to 25% of his web site work to Tampa Bay Film, which would make Tampa
Bay Film and his Frontier Pop web site his most updated web sites in the
near future. Tampa Bay Film will be his most updated web site, and new
talent resource site tools and technology, including scam fighting tools
developed by his other talent resource sites, such as Tampa Bay Modeling,
will be deployed on this web site; these tools are proven and effective.
Passinault has indicated that unethical and unprofessional elements in
the local independent film scene started a fight with him back in 2007
with slander and credibility attacks, and that this did, and will not,
stand; these people, whom, in our opinion, have bullied other potential
competitors and crippled the independent film industry in Tampa Bay, messed
with the wrong person, an individual of integrity with a backbone who
stood up for himself and the rights of others. Additionally, Passinault
did NOTHING wrong, and did not start this fight. He finished it, though,
and did so quite effectively, while continuing to do the right thing.
Although he has since defeated most of the offenders and has put them
in their place, much work needs to be done. Passinault is determined to
help bring balance, order, and accountability to the local independent
film scene, which includes using his other talent resource sites to regulate
the supply of talent which independent filmmakers need for their films.
Good filmmakers will get support. The others will find it more and more
difficult to obtain support for their projects.
Additionally, Passinault has decided to start a second independent film
scene in the Tampa Bay area which will directly compete with and undermine
the current independent film scene, with the good filmmakers spared and
encouraged to join the winning side, which will be us. That second independent
film scene will lead to the founding of the first professional independent
film community in the Tampa Bay area, a professional independent film
community which will look out for the best interests of independent film
in our area and consist of professionals genuinely supporting other professionals.
The independent film war in Tampa Bay, which is a war of opinion, ideas,
and change, which was started in 2008, will continue. Passinault has a
growing list of people in the independent film scene whom he will not
work with or support, although they will be covered and addressed as long
as they are active in the local market. If they do good work, they have
little to be concerned about. If they don’t, they will be scrutinized.
Everyone will be known by what they do.
Passinault has also stated that he will make independent films and documentaries
about the local independent film scene, in order to entertain while educating
the general public about all aspects of independent film in Tampa Bay,
which includes the history.
Every single independent film, film festival, and independent film related
subject in the Tampa Bay area will be reviewed and covered on this site,
our opinions will be known, and we will qualify our opinions.
Tampa Bay Film is going to be very relevant, and talked about, once we
start talking, because we have a lot to say, and we are not going to shut
up. Tampa Bay Film, in fact, will see so many updates that search engines
may have a difficult time keeping up, that is, if that was a factor anymore.
Passinault has stated that this web site and the cause for change and
improvement in the local independent film scene will be aggressively promoted
and marketed from now on.
Tampa Bay Film will also deploy additional web sites to assist us in our
mission. A new, secret web site for local independent film is now in the
works for 2016, and it will work with Tampa Bay Film in our mission.
This site has been idle for too long. This site is about to come to life
and become a force of nature. All aspects of independent film in Tampa
Bay will be known to all, and we will fight for change.
NOTICE:
Working on reviews. Mobile-friendly update. Working on marketing tools.
Preparing to relaunch online film festival. -
10/22/15/0424
We are currently working on finishing and publishing some overdue film
festival reviews, which will catch up the site. We are working on coding
and formatting adjustments, right now, to make this Revolution Class site
as mobile-friendly as possible (something which delayed work on all of
our related web sites for several months this year), which will pave the
way for aggressive updates and content additions. Tampa Bay Film marketing
cards and other marketing tools are also being developed. We are also
preparing to launch the online film festival, which will launch with a
selection of 16 initial independent films and reviews tied into those
film selections.
Once regular updates commence, we will be adding new reviews, articles,
and archived content, such as updated posts from the old Tampa Film Blog,
regularly (Passinault decided that those posts, as inflammatory as they
are, will be republished as-is, with mistakes corrected and additional
content added, as certain parties have to be accountable for what they
have done, and his opinions about certain things will stand).
Once the online film festival is online, we plan on adding at least three
films to the online film festival, as well as the reviews for those films,
every week, which means that the online film festival will have well over
100 independent films and reviews for those films online by the Summer
of 2016.
Information for subjects in our directories will be published at regular
intervals, which means that information listed in our directories, which
include subject term links below, will be published on the site and will
be fully operational by 2016, as we head toward our 10th anniversary in
2017.
Additional Tampa Bay Film web sites are also in development.
For now, we return to our work on the film festival reviews, which should
be done by either this weekend, or by next week; we will publish the film
festival reviews and link to those reviews here on the front page as they
are finished and published.
NOTICE:
Legal restructuring for Tampa Bay Film and Passinault business properties.
- 10/22/15/0225
Officially, Tampa Bay Film is changing ownership. Currently, the web site
is owned by Christopher Passinault, AKA C. A. Passinault. Soon, it will
be owned by his primary LLC. This is required to reduce potential liability.
Tampa Bay Film is not a legal entity, and it is not a business/ DBA. It
is an industry resource web site and online film festival, and the branding
is a trademark. As such, it will be owned by the LLC, soon.
Two of Passinault’s businesses will also be organized under the
Limited Liability Corporation, as well as his other businesses as they
come online. Eventually, his independent film production companies will
also be organized under the LLC, which will be when production of his
independent films and video games begin in 2016, and all businesses will
be appropriately licensed or have their current licenses adjusted. Passinault
will own three separate independent film production companies, each with
specific markets in mind, all organized under the LLC, with each brand
targeted differently (Experimental films, general independent films and
arthouse/ different genres, and horror/ grindhouse. Two of the names for
the production companies are currently classified. Passinault also owns
the .Coms for the terms for Tampa Bay Arthouse, Tampa Bay Grindhouse,
etc, planning ahead to control the market for those terms, and those will
soon be owned by the LLC, as well). Also, Passinault will cross license
his intellectual properties across different media, with unique intellectual
properties developed specifically to play to the strengths of the format
of the media; for example, many of his independent films will also have
video game counterparts.
Additional LLC’s are being optioned at this time to segment liability
and to spread out risks.
All copyrights attributed to Tampa Bay Film, which is not technically
a legal entity, will be updated to reflect the appropriate ownership as
soon as possible. Regardless, all copyrights are in force, and are owned,
by default, by Christopher Passinault, unless otherwise stated; all copyrights
attributed to Tampa Bay Film, which is a trademarked intellectual property
and is not a legal entity, are the current property of Christopher Passinault,
until the transfer is complete and it is otherwise stated.
You know what they say about glass houses. Prepare yourselves. We mean
business.
NOTICE:
Rumors of Passinault filmmaking preparations. -
07/03/15/1011
After years of delays, there are now rumors that C. A. Passinault is acquiring
the equipment which will be needed to create his first solo independent
films. Long a staple of independent film work in Tampa Bay since 1993
in all crew positions, support roles, and as a technical director and
actor, as well as audio, there are now rumors that his first film projects
are underway.
Sources report that Passinault will begin with a series of short films
covering a wide variety of genres produced as cost-effectively as possible,
putting many bloated local independent film productions to shame, and
making them look extremely inefficient and ineffective. Passinault has
indicated that every aspect and detail of the production of the films
will
be documented, demonstrating to aspiring independent filmmakers that you
can get started in the industry with minimal resources. This free independent
film “school” will be key to creating a new generation of
independent filmmakers whom will outnumber and displace most of what is
there now; a new generation of independent filmmakers whom cannot be ignored.
These new filmmakers will be key to finally establishing the first independent
film community in a local film scene that needs to be redone. Passinault
has also indicated that he will pour resources into independent film workshops
and a Tampa Bay Film School which will all be offered free of charge,
undermining and crippling schemes to make money at the expense of aspiring
independent filmmakers.
Passinault has stated that his first independent films will be shorts,
shot with minimal equipment, crew, and cast; some of his first films will
have crews with as little as three people. This will be done to demonstrate
what can be done, and what will be done, and will serve as a foundation
to inspire hundreds of new filmmakers in the Tampa Bay area. As an experienced
professional writer, in addition to his other professions, Passinault
has already started working on scripts in short films in the genres of
drama, comedy, romance, documentaries, exploitation, grindhouse, and even
horror, as well as a mix of one or more genres. These shorts films will
be used for a portfolio to pitch investors with in the future, and this
“start small and work toward large productions” strategy will
be the bible for the new generation of independent filmmakers in Tampa
Bay.
With Passinault now doing preproduction work, investing in basic filmmaking
gear, but concentrating on his photography business, which will be needed
to fund his films, it is reported that his first films will begin principle
photography as early as Spring 2016. Passinault has also hinted at an
independent film format which will be introduced to the market, and will
be used by other filmmakers.
Passinault has also been experimenting with new tools, such as Drones,
since 2014, although his first films will not use that technology.
What is known is that all Passinault short films will premier on the Tampa
Bay Film Online Film Festival, and eventually the network of film festivals
which Passinault is developing.
Production details of all of Passinault’s films will be covered
and published on Tampa Film Revolution, Tampa Bay Film, and on a new,
secret independent film site which will also be a Tampa Bay Film site.
There is more. During the Spring of 2015, Passinault invested in a lot
of .Com domain names for what is coming, which include, but are not limited
to, Tampa Bay Arthouse, Tampa Bay Grindhouse, Tampa Bay Horror Film Festival,
Coffeehouse Film Festival, Florida Horror Film Festival, Florida Horror
(which is for sale for six figures), Tampa Bay Auditions, Tampa Bay Actor,
Tampa Bay Film Workshop, Tampa Bay Film School, and much more. Arthouse
is especially important to note, as Passinault has stated that this is
what independent film is supposed to be, and will be in Tampa Bay.
Passinault has also stated that a lot of work has been done to develop
resources to address the slander and the discrimination in the Tampa Bay
independent film scene which he has personally experienced, and which
he is convinced is one of the main reasons that there is no independent
film community, yet. These resources will be used to protect new filmmakers
so that they can become established without interference from insecure,
unethical filmmakers.
Passinault has also stated that he will monitor the market, and has the
ability and resources to address it, which includes cutting off offending
filmmakers from actors, talent, and other resources that they need to
make films (he has already done so). These same resources will be used
to support new and professional filmmakers as we work together to cull
the market and to establish it.
NOTICE:
Tampa Bay Film is updating. -
05/22/15/1058
We are almost done with a side project, and then can resume work on Tampa
Bay Film.
June is going to be a big month for Tampa Bay Film, as we catch up, begin
frequent updates, and get the online film festival online.
Thank you for your patience.
REVIEW/
FILM FESTIVALS: Halloween
Horror Picture Show 2013 Film Festival. -
04/21/15/0959
After a five year hiatus, Rick Danford finally resurrects
the legendary Halloween Horror Picture Show, and the film festival is
set to screen on September 28, 2013. Tampa Bay Film editor C. A. Passinault
literally gets lost finding the out-of-sight venue as he investigates
the beginning of a new chapter. This review, a Tampa Bay Film exclusive,
contains videos, pictures, and, of course, a review of the film festival
event.
TAGS: Reviews,
Film Festivals, Halloween Horror Picture Show 2013, Rick Danford, Joel
D. Wynkoop, Shelby McIntyre, Tampa Pitcher Show, C. A. Passinault
#:
#UnmatchedOnlineFirepower
#NoParity #NoCompetition #MarketDominance #SituationalAwareness # UndermineAndDisruptOpposition
#InnovativeConcepts #IndustryRevolution #BusinessIsWar. #NextMove.
- 09/04/14/1500
REVIEW/ FILM FESTIVALS:
Rise of the Dead Film Festival. -
04/21/15/0959
Rick Danford’s premier Zombie film festival, and
the first of its kind, Rise of the Dead debuted on Sunday, August 17,
2014. Tampa Bay Film was there, and our review of this Tampa Bay horror
film festival is now available for human consumption.
TAGS: Reviews,
Film Festivals, Rise of the Dead, Rick Danford, Krista Grotte, Marcus
Koch, Joel D. Wynkoop, Tampa Pitcher Show, C. A. Passinault
REVIEW/ FILM FESTIVALS:
Halloween Horror Picture Show 2014 Film Festival. -
04/21/15/0959
Rick Danford’s premier Zombie film festival, and
the first of its kind, Rise of the Dead debuted on Sunday, August 17,
2014. Tampa Bay Film was there, and our review of this Tampa Bay horror
film festival is now available for human consumption.
TAGS: Reviews,
Film Festivals, Rise of the Dead, Rick Danford, Krista Grotte, Marcus
Koch, Joel D. Wynkoop, Tampa Pitcher Show, C. A. Passinault
REVIEW/ FILM FESTIVALS:
Rise of the Dead 2 Film Festival. -
04/21/15/0959
Rick Danford’s premier Zombie film festival, and
the first of its kind, Rise of the Dead debuted on Sunday, August 17,
2014. Tampa Bay Film was there, and our review of this Tampa Bay horror
film festival is now available for human consumption.
TAGS: Reviews,
Film Festivals, Rise of the Dead, Rick Danford, Krista Grotte, Marcus
Koch, Joel D. Wynkoop, Tampa Pitcher Show, C. A. Passinault
NOTICE:
Tampa Bay Film is updating. -
04/07/15/0930
Excuse the delay, please. We are working hard to get Tampa Bay Film up
to speed in the next 72 hours. We spent all morning on Monday getting
support videos online at Youtube for our latest film festival reviews,
which was much longer than we had planned. These videos will be embedded
in support, annex pages interconnected with the reviews.
Links will be added to the film festival reviews when they are up, at
which time this notice will be shoved down below those review notices,
and the front page of Tampa Bay Film will be cleaned up. Once that happens,
we will allow the site to sit for a few weeks for all of the content to
settle, which is needed to optimize our SEO efforts; the SEO efforts for
this site have been on target, as this site is performing exactly as planned..
The online film festival is scheduled to come online toward the end of
April, with 16 initial independent films showing and reviews for those
films published in our review section, and we will begin frequent additions
of content at that time, with at least 4 independent film, and reviews
for those films, added every week, as well as lot of content, such as
content from the old Tampa Film Blog, added to the site almost daily.
Tampa Bay Film business cards, marketing tools, and even swag bags for
use at film festivals and events will also be ordered toward the end of
the month, and are being designed now, and we are even looking into designing
and ordering official Tampa Bay Film shirts.
ADDED:
Main menu updated. "Auditions"
section added. -
09/08/14/1500
We changed our main menu today, and added an auditions section.
Although we are working on a large Tampa Bay Auditions web site for all
kinds of auditions and casting notices for actors and talent for everything
from stage plays and theatre to independent films, and we also have audition
boards on Tampa Bay Talent and on Tampa Bay Acting, we are working on
an audition board here on Tampa Bay Film specifically for local independent
film audition and castings (Tampa Bay Auditions, once online, will feed
many job leads to our other specialized site boards, and it will be the
source).
There are no auditions listed on there, yet, but we did put a lot of information
about Tampa Bay independent film auditions and castings for actors and
talent to read, especially about which film projects to avoid. Read it,
now. Thank us, later. Keep checking back this Fall for audition and casting
information.
NEWS:
Online film festival and reviews
are imminent. -
08/24/14/2100
Check out the latest new about our online film festival,
our reviews, and more!
NOTICE:
Tampa Bay Film cards and shirts to be ordered this Fall. Online Film Festival
progress. -
08/20/14/1110
We are designing and ordering Tampa Bay Film cards this Fall, as well
as Tampa Bay Film shirts embroidered with our logo; we are even looking
into ordering swag bags with the Tampa Bay Film logo on them to give out
at film festivals and relevant events (we are sick and tired of relying
upon others and waiting for them to come up with the appropriate swag
bags for their own events. We are convinced that it isn’t going
to happen unless we do something about it, and we are taking matters into
our own hands). Frontier Pop cards and shirts are also on order, and swag
bags with the Frontier Pop logo on them for use at relevant events are
also planned.
Most of this will be in soon, as we certainly have the money, and can
order all of that now.
We are looking into designing and ordering larger interview and coverage
follow-up cards to hand out to people whom we are interviewing and covering
so that they know how their information will be covered on Tampa Bay Film
and/ or on Frontier Pop. For many events, there will be dual coverage
between Tampa Bay Film and Frontier Pop, where coverage is relevant and
appropriate, such as with the Fandomonium in Tampa Bay events (We have
the review of the first of these events available online here on Tampa
Bay Film today, in fact! A second review of this same event will be published
on Frontier Pop next month, with the review relevant to pop culture, of
course! Our review is more independent film and film festival relevant).
The online film festival should be online this weekend, with reviews of
those films to be published soon afterwards. There will be 16 films initially,
and no new films will be added until the reviews are caught up; once films
are added on a weekly basis this month, each film will have an attached
review in our reviews section for independent films as soon as the film
is added to the online film festival.
We want to start out with a strong set of films, so expect some good ones.
NEWS
NOTE: Arming Tampa Bay
Film for the possibility of continuing conflict. Arms buildup begins with
lots of
new content and the construction of a fleet of web sites; fleet to be
in position and ready for action by 2015.
- 07/13/14/1555
Check out the latest news, while we prepare for another
potential conflict in the Tampa Bay independent film scene as we continue
to wage a cold war with the opposition; we may never have to fight again,
but it won't be because we are not ready (and the new tactics mean that
we may never have to fight again in a direct conflict). Intelligence reports
indicate that hostile players are now in strong positions throughout the
market, and that they will continue to undermine the progress of independent
film in Tampa Bay by sabotaging new contenders with slander and discrimination,
which cannot be tolerated. The new Revolution Class Tampa Bay
Film sites were engineered from scratch with technology and tactics learned
from the original conflict of 2008-2012, which Tampa Bay Film won, as
well as proven technology and tactics from Tampa Bay Modeling; the sites
are tough and highly effective to a level where the opposition will be
discouraged from trying anything as we help progress in Tampa Bay independent
film.
NOTICE:
Free Independent Filmmaking Workshops to be produced under Tampa Film
Revolution. -
07/20/14/2056
News today over at sister site Tampa Shootouts revealed that the event
branding would be redone, and that Tampa Workshops would be eventually
closed and absorbed into the new modeling and photography event business.
Although it will not be used, the rights to the Tampa Shootouts branding
will be retained, and the web site will be left online for the foreseeable
future, with a link to the new web site added to the front page when it
becomes appropriate.
This directly affects Tampa Bay Film, as our free independent filmmaking
workshops, which will offer superior instruction to what
films schools and others are offering and are trying to sell, as well
as more relevant to independent filmmaking, were going to be produced
under Tampa Workshops. The Tampa Workshops web site will be sabotaged
in preparation to abandon the domain name, now, making it useless for
anyone who may be planning to buy it after the domain name is abandoned.
Two other Tampa Shootouts related Pioneer Class web sites, which will
surely leave a gap in the registry of the successful Pioneer Class web
sites (Frontier Pop uses a Pioneer Class web site, and that site isn’t
going away. The related Frontier Society web site will soon get a shiny
new Pioneer Class web site, so new sites of that class will be built,
however), will also be sabotaged and closed.
As of now, our free independent filmmaking workshops, which will be offered
for free because we are genuine about supporting independent film in Tampa
Bay (and don’t even get into “the blind leading the blind”
argument, either, as these workshops will be run by talented, successful
independent filmmakers, which will eventually include C. A. Passinault),
will be produced under by Tampa Bay Film under Tampa Film Revolution,
which will add an entirely new dimension to that web site, soon! This
will greatly expand upon the filmmaking instruction which was originally
planned for the site, and it will become a driving force for that web
site.
Quiet
Place Remake Confirmed. -
07/12/14/1222
It turns out that rumors of a remake of the 2006 short
independent film, The Quiet Place, may be true after all, and it could
be coming on the 10th anniversary in 2016. A failed film from the Tampa
Film Network, the original Quiet Place never quite reached its potential.
It had myriad problems, in the opinion of C. A. Passinault, most of which,
tragically, could have been avoided.
C. A. Passinault confirms that a remake to The Quiet Place is indeed in
the works, and it will be a short independent horror/ creeper film with
a completely original story by C. A. Passinault called “Quiet Places”.
The film will be produced by Passinault’s independent film production
company, MatchHead Films, and will have little to do with the original
other than a similar name, and Passinault tinkering with the idea of casting
Harmony Oswald (AKA Harmony Layne, pictured to the right), his actress
friend whom he referred to the orginal Quiet Place in 2006 in a lead role,
in the leading role (this is just an idea, and has not been confirmed).
The budget and the crew of this new film is reported to be much smaller
than the original, proving that a superior, more cost-effective film can
be done with less resources.
There are also new rumors of FREE independent filmmaking workshops. Read
more by clicking the link!
TAGS: Quiet
Place remake confirmed, The Quiet Place, Quiet Places, C.
A. Passinault, Tampa Bay independent film savior, Chris Woods, Tampa Bay
independent film Antichrist, Paul Guzzo, Joe Davison, Harmony Oswald,
Tampa Film Network, Independent film workshops
Update
Log section launched. -
06/07/14/1159
The updates posts here on the front page have been moved
to the new web site Update Log section, which just came online.
We have replaced the front page updates with a “latest additions
and news” portion, where we will post the latest updates and links.
This portion will be kept small.
Reviewing the
fleet of Tampa Bay Film web sites as we prepare for ongoing operations.
-
06/06/14/1541
Currently, we have an active fleet of 12 Tampa Bay Film
sites online, most completely new, and have an additional four planned
in reserve, which may be built and deployed later this year.
The domain names, especially the operating ones, are classified, however,
and although they can be found in search results under specific terms,
we will not cross link the sites nor list them in one place. We are in
an ongoing state of conflict, and there are some out there who want to
silence us and keep us from helping independent filmmakers and talent;
we will not make anything easy for the opposition.
We recently did a survey of where we are online with these web sites,
and they are performing exactly as planned, unlike the problems that we
had with the original Tampa Bay Film sites, with the online film festival
being the exception. We are no longer making the mistakes that we did
in the early days, and are being careful to avoid making new mistakes.
We are pouring a lot of time and hard work toward making the sites as
effective as possible. All of these web sites have excellent search results
for their targeted search terms, too, as a result. This means, of course,
that many can easily find our sites, and that we have a lot of readers.
Although we are at odds with many in the current Tampa Bay film scene,
that is irrelevant. We will give everyone deserved reviews and support
regardless of how we feel about them, although the support part is up
to them. We will be the voice in independent film in Tampa Bay that no
one can ignore, and will continue to work hard to undermine ethical and
unprofessional conduct, as well as address and fight scams and low value
things in the industry.
Although we have tried to make peace on several occasions, we are now
convinced that most of the local independent film scene is flawed beyond
redemption, and we are now working toward helping others, a new generation
of independent filmmakers, compete with these people and drive them out
of business. It could be said that you should not throw out the baby with
the bath water, but for the most part, the baby left that tub some time
ago. We are now convinced the the independent film scene in Tampa Bay
needs to be torn down and rebuilt.
The independent film war in Tampa Bay did quiet down in 2013, but it is
still ongoing, and is gaining steam again. This said, we always worked
toward furthering the interests of independent film in the Tampa Bay area
during the lull, and continued to effectively work against some people
who deserved it.
The only constant, it seems, is conflict. We will stay the course and
stick to our guns, with a state-of-the-arts fleet of powerful web sites
which cannot be ignored. We are going to make a difference!
Updated Indie
Film List. Is Chris Woods Lost? -
05/28/14/1251
Added some independent film titles, most of which have
been produced in the Tampa Bay area, to our list of films that we are
going to review. Shaking our heads over the utter and total trashy crap
that Chris Woods and his partner John Miller are producing and pushing,
as what they are doing will set back independent film in Tampa Bay, in
our opinion. You guys will get the reviews that you will deserve, and
if what we have seen so far is anything to go on, those reviews will not
be nice (some of your films will be screened in front of an audience for
a peer group review, too, at an upcoming Sunburn Film Festival event,
where a review panel of industry and target market peers can give their
own opinions about the films). This pair has produced some of the worst
independent films ever produced in the Tampa Bay area, in our opinion,
with drek such as "Taste Me" and "Vomit Soup".
Has Chris Woods sold out to tasteless trash?
He used to be one of the best filmmakers in the area! With Miller's bad
influence, in our opinion, Woods has been reduced to another sell-out
filmmaker, and we wonder if he even cares about the quality of the films
that he attaches his name to. What's next?
"Johnny take me that way"?
Tampa
Bay Film. The voice of Tampa Bay independent film.
2015
INTRODUCTION
Welcome
to the 2015 official web site of Tampa Bay Film, the voice of Tampa Bay
independent film! This is an all-new web site for our eight year old web
site, and it is now operating from a new operating domain name so that
we can more effectively cover and regulate Tampa Bay Independent Film.
This new web site has re integrated our old stand-alone sites such as
the online film festival and the Tampa Film Blog (now the Tampa Bay Film
Blog), which have been improved and are now built into the new site.
Founded in 2006 and online on January 11, 2007, Tampa Bay Film has had
a rather rough development period compared to its sister sites such as
Tampa Bay Modeling. Tampa Bay Film has gone through many iterations, and
recently became a meta site (a network of 8 interconnected Super Raptor
Class sites). Some changes with the Internet, however, made that strategy
backfire in early 2012, so, in late 2012, it was decided that we would
simply start over from scratch, creating a group of at least 16 new web
sites which are not interconnected, learning from the mistakes of the
past and applying new breakthroughs (there were breakthroughs cascading
into more breakthroughs from 2012 to 2013, and we are having more every
day.... So many, in fact, that it advanced us by 10 to 20 years in a short
amount of time). The result of that is this new Tampa Bay Film site, which
uses a new late 3rd Generation Revolution Class web site, which is also
the very first 3rd Generation talent resource site in our arsenal (it's
different than the first category). Our new strategy, which we began working
on in the summer of 2012, is working, and all of our new sites are now
at the top of targeted search results, just like all through the previous
decade. The old Super Raptor Class Tampa Bay Film site was taken offline
to prepare for this new one in February 2013, and this new site went online
on March 23, 2013.
Our new online film festival will launch with 16 films, with their accompanying
reviews in our new independent film review section following shortly.
After that, we will add about 4 independent films to the online film festival
every week. The reason that we will limit the additions to 4 films added
per week is to allow the films to be properly indexed in search results,
and, with our new policy that every film has to have a review, each film
added will be immediately reviewed. If you do the math, that will be at
least 172 films added and 172 matching film reviews by the end of 2015.
By late 2015, our new online film festival will exceed the size of our
old one (which, for those of you who noticed, was dominant, and was highly
successful, for the past few years. We could have continued it, but it
was decided that it would be better if we added it to the new site, instead,
with upgrades, and took the old one offline), and our review section will
be even larger, because we will be reviewing a lot more independent films,
film festivals, and events than what is on our online film festival. Tampa
Bay Film will obtain, and review, every independent film made in the Tampa
Bay area and Florida, and those films will be aggressively reviewed.
Speaking of reviewing independent films, especially the ones made in Tampa
Bay and Florida, we will be conducting an ongoing series of underground
film festival events, starting in 2015, where a group of industry
professionals and other invited guests, some of whom are the target market
for independent films, get together to watch and review independent films.
This will be the most controversial film festival in the Tampa Bay area,
both hated and loved by independent filmmakers, and the controversy starts
with the name, the Sunburn Film Festival, which
is intended to both play off of and convey a difference from one annual,
large local film festival, the Sunscreen Film Festival,
which we have come to believe does not do enough to support local indie
film (think Slamdance as compared to Sundance,
which was founded due to anger and a backlash, and although this is comparable,
the difference here is that the Sunburn Film Festival is not a public
event like the Sunscreen Film Festival is, so it is technically not competing
with it, and it has its own purpose, although the after-film festival
coverage will be identical here on Tampa Bay Film. Confusion with
their film festival is not intended, however, despite the similar
names. Although we are not satisfied with what Sunscreen has been doing,
we do have to admit that it has a brilliant name, and it is more creative
than the derivative and unoriginal “Gasparilla International
Film Festival”, or “GIFF”,
a film festival born of questionable politics between the Tampa film commission
and some filmmakers with questionable motives, in our opinion, as we were
there at the beginning to witness its conception and formation, and it
is another large film festival that we have an issue with.) The Sunburn
Film Festival is a small, private, invitation-only event series.
Good films will be praised and promoted, and bad films, which
make up the majority of current films being made locally, in our opinion,
will be ripped apart, hence the “burn” in the title.
We will be fair, though. No longer will we have just one reviewer posting
a review on a film, although we will continue with those types of reviews,
too. We will also have groups of people reviewing films and voicing their
opinions. Although the Sunburn Film Festival is our flagship underground
film festival, not deigned or intended to be a large, public film festival
event, it will be covered just like a large film festival event, with
photographs, video, interviews, reviews, and more! This will make it just
as visible as the large film festivals, and more-so when you consider
that these small, scrappy, genuinely cool, trendy film festivals will
happen much more frequently. We plan on having a Sunburn Film Festival
event every few months, with as many as 6 per year (or even more), using
assorted media ranging from DVD’s of independent films, to indie
films playing on our online film festival. We will have a lot of people
weighing in on those films, and some independent filmmakers will not like
it, although it will give them further incentive to make better films.
There will be other underground film festival events, too, such as our
Halloween Drive-In “film festival in a car”, which
will no longer be called the Halloween Drive-In because we did not buy
the domain name and protect it like we should have, and a company in Canada
took it (we are now protecting all of our film festival, event, and underground
film festival events with domain names and stand-alone web sites, as well
as trademarks, the latter something that others should learn from). The
other underground film festivals will have specific purposes and formats,
and will not happen nearly as much as the Sunburn Film Festival events.
The underground film festivals will outnumber all other film festivals
in Florida, and will be used to build buzz and support our other, larger,
conventional, public film festival and indie film event properties. Our
first public film festival event, which will be an annually held advanced
“theme” film festival event for horror and exploitation films,
will be the Reverence Film Festival, which is
currently planned for the future (we are aware now that Rick
Danford will be continuing his Halloween Horror
Picture Show annual film festival events, and we will be
completely supporting it. We will schedule the Reverence Film Festival
around the HHPS so that we do not compete and conflict, out of respect
and support, unlike other large film festivals which will surely be crippled
when they come up against our events. Our film festivals,
in our opinion, will make film festivals like Gasparilla and Sunscreen
look bloated, expensive, and less effective, and we expect them to lose
sponsors and attendance over our efforts. They will be forced
to change and adapt, or face extinction, and, let’s face it, competition
is just what they need, regardless, as it is good for the market even
if it is not good for them!). This film festival will be built around
C. A. Passinault’s Reverence independent
film theme, combined with his Realms film and
other Halloween elements. Reverence will also have musical and dance performances,
and other unique features which we cannot disclose, yet, as well as a
keynote presentation. The first Reverence will be used to promote the
Tampa Bay Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional
networking event series, which is scheduled to begin after
the debut of the Reverence Film Festival, and will be the backbone on
our film festival and independent film event properties (At this time,
January 22, 2015, we are still figuring out how our monthly Coffeehouse
Film Festival, which was created days ago, will coexist
with the Tampa Bay Film Showcase, and it is
possible that the Coffeehouse Film Festival may replace the Tampa Bay
Film Showcase; the Coffeehouse Film Festival is more efficient than the
Tampa Bay Film Showcase, as it was developed as an inexpensive, sustainable,
cost-effective monthly film festival using what we learned from developing
underground film festival technology, which was well after the Tampa Bay
Film Showcase was designed and engineered. There is enough on this subject
alone to write more than one book dedicated to it, and we will be writing
a lot about it, both here on Tampa Bay Film
and on our Tampa Film Revolution online publication).
This, of course, is not an underground film festival, and it is a public
event series. There will be 12 Tampa Bay Film Showcase film festival events
a year, which will overlap with our other film festivals and indie film
industry events. The monthly film festival and networking event series
will also lead into, and feed into, our flagship annual film festival
series, the Revolution Film Festival, which
will become the best annual film festival in the Tampa Bay area. The first
Revolution Film Festival is scheduled to debut a year after the debut
of our monthly film festival series. Our first indie film industry event,
which will be held annually, will be the Tampa Bay Film Conference,
and it is scheduled to debut a few months after our flagship annual film
festival. At that time, all of the film festivals and events will be held
regularly, and the underground film festivals will be used to fill in
the gaps with prestigious, invitation-only, small, private events. All
of our film festivals and events are interconnected (just not with their
web sites), with each other as well as our online film festival, and they
all support and promote each other for the most advanced, and effective,
network of marketing and support events for independent film in the United
States. This infrastructure and support will be needed, too, as it is
one of our goals to take out the trash and to help the Tampa Bay independent
film scene become a genuine community of innovative professionals, a respectable
industry, and a worldwide leader in independent filmmaking.
Our review section, too, will have much more than just reviews of independent
films. We will be reviewing filmmakers (including over rated Tampa filmmakers
Joe Davison and Terence Nuzum, as well as filmmakers like Paul Guzzo and
Pete Guzzo), independent film production companies like The Film Ranch
(which may be defunct at this time), Inspiration Films, and Icon Film
Studios, film festivals, independent film events, film schools, workshops,
and the Tampa Bay independent film scene (By year. We will retro-apply
and write reviews for past years, researching them, going back way before
Tampa Bay Film even existed). Our film festival coverage and reviews of
those film festivals will be extensive, and the best in Florida.
We will send dedicated, highly trained teams into film festivals to cover
and review them. We will even research and write reviews for film festivals
of the past for a complete historial record of all Tampa Bay film festivals.
We will also have huge, special sections for the Coffehouse
Film Review and the Tampa Film Review,
with large write-ups and reviews of each of those monthly film festival
events, as well as including embedded video files of all of the relevant
films which are online so that you can watch the films that were shown
at that particular CFR/TFR event, follow the reviews, and see if you agree
with the assessment. The Coffeehouse Film Review and the Tampa Film Review,
now in the domain of history, will also have their own stand-alone web
sites, with unique content about them, to ensure that everyone knows about
them and does not forget.
We will spend a few months editing and adding content to the over 600
pages of the old Tampa Film Blog, and will republish
the reformatted content here on our new Tampa Bay Film Blog.
That valuable, insightful information will not be going away. It's here
to stay, because history is very important to everyone, and you, the people,
need to know what is going on. Those who do not study history and learn
from it are doomed to repeat it, and we need that insight to pave the
way for progress in Tampa Bay independent film!
We will make everyone in the Tampa Bay independent film scene accountable
for what they say and do. We will make sure that they can be researched,
and that their successes, and failures, can be easily known. This is an
important, and crucial, step to helping the independent film scene in
Tampa Bay to be finally put on the map in the future, and be appropriately
respected as a legitimate player and powerhouse in the independent film
industry. We will help the weak and the unethical leave the market, as
they will pay for their sins. We will also support those whom deserve
it. If you are good and talented, we are your friend, an we will be a
powerful ally. If you are not, you will have to shape up or improve, or
you will not succeed. Don't worry, though, as we will give you a chance
to improve before we help your new Tampa Bay Film-enhanced competition
drive you from the market and put you out of business; We
will show you what you are doing wrong and how to fix it, and, if you
work hard and start acting like professionals, you will be able to adapt
and remain a part of the independent film scene here in Tampa Bay.
You're welcome!
Tampa Bay Film will also do our part to support and advance
independent film in Tampa Bay. We will be producing a Tampa
Bay Film Podcast series. We will be producing the most sophisticated,
comprehensive network of film festivals and indie film industry events
in Florida, as well as the United States. With our production partners,
we will also produce an ongoing series of independent film projects, and
will document and publish every aspect of the production of these film
projects so that they will serve as inspiration, and as a free online
tutorial for a new generation of talented filmmakers to follow (This will
be devastating for those who try to make money off of aspiring filmmakers
with their overpriced workshops and so-called film schools, as it is our
opinion that they will deserve it. It is also our opinion that they do
nothing to support or advance indie film in our area, and that their motives
are questionable, at best. We do not support them, and will be working
hard to undermine and disrupt their agenda. We will be producing indie
filmmaking workshops, too, workshops which are not only more
relevant and effective for making independent films here, but offered
free of charge! We’d like to see the "competition"
compete with that!). There is going to be a revolution in the Florida
independent film industry, and it will center here in Tampa Bay. We will
join with others to work hard toward making the Tampa Bay area a worldwide
leader in the independent film industry, and the most innovative indie
films ever done will be here.
10 years from now, most of the current players in Tampa Bay independent
film will no longer be a part of the scene (which will make us
very happy!), and that will be a good thing because the only thing that
most of them have succeeded in is holding back the progress of indie film
in Tampa Bay, in our opinion. The independent film scene here will no
longer be dominated by aspiring politicians who claim to support indie
film, but who's actions betray their words as they sell out their fimmaking
brothers and the film scene. Tampa Bay independent film will be led and
controlled by a new generation of filmmakers. It will be as it should
be, and as it needs to be, as it is our opinion that most of the current
players have not only failed to support and advance the scene, but that
they put their own self-serving interests ahead of the greater good, while
misrepresenting their efforts, and are responsible for crippling indie
film in Tampa Bay!
Hollywood needs to stay away from Tampa Bay, too! We do not need competition
coming here with deep pockets and undermining the independent film scene.
Don’t fall for the propaganda stating that there are jobs for independent
filmmakers with these outside productions, too, as, historically, it is
not true, and a few token gigs don’t change anything. It is also
our opinions that the current large film festivals, such as the Gasparilla
International Film Festival and the Sunscreen Film Festival are too “Hollywood”-centric,
and are used to market the Tampa Bay area as a location for outside production
companies at the expense of local independent film. It is our opinion
that local filmmakers who do not realize this (or want to realize this),
and support these efforts, are idiots with no business sense, and need
to be accountable for helping to sell out the filmmaking scene. We need
leaders, and not mindless followers! Think that we are going to stand
for this? Think again! Revolution is going to happen, and those who are
not for us, are against us, and we will drive them from the market, and
from the industry!
10 years from now, Hollywood will not think of the Tampa Bay area as a
location to be used for their next production, at the expense of indie
film. The local government will not think about importing film business
here while humoring indie filmmaking, like we believe it has been doing.
Independent film in Tampa Bay will finally be respected, and it will be
an export, as Hollywood and the rest of the entertainment world will look
here for their next film to buy and distribute.
Of course, to make this future a reality, we all need to start working
together now, and this is why Tampa Bay Film is here.
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site, along with the site map, once these sections are online and the
tags become links. 10/22/15/0424 - All links and related content will
be online by 2016.
Tampa
Bay Independent Film
Filmmaking - Filmmakers - Production Companies - Film
Schools - Workshops - Tampa Workshops
Underground Film Festivals
Underground Film Festivals - Sunburn Film Festival
Film Festivals
Film Festivals - Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival
- Coffeehouse Film Festival - Tampa Bay Film Showcase - Revolution Film
Festival - Reverence Film Festival - Halloween Horror Picture Show - Horror
and Hotties - Ladies Of The Night - Gasparilla International Film Festival
(GIFF) - Sunscreen Film Festival - Reel Terror - India International Film
Festival (IIFF) - Motion Film Festival - Festival Of The Moving Image
- Coffeehouse Films - Coffeehouse Film Review - The Tampa Film Review
Events
Events - Tampa Bay Film Showcase Networking Events
- Tampa Bay Film Conference - Florida Film Network Networking Meetings
Organizations
Organizations - Tampa Bay Film Community - Florida
Motion Picture And Television Association (FMPTA) - Tampa Film Society
- Florida Film Network - Florida Film Network Tampa Bay - Tampa Film Network
Support and Permits
Support - Tampa Bay Film Community - Tampa Bay Film
Network - Tampa Bay Film Commission - Tampa Film Commission - Saint Pete
Film Commission - Clearwater Film Commission
Tampa Bay Movie and Independent Film Production
Companies
Production Companies - Renegade Films - Enigma Films
- Metropol Productions - Icon Film Studios - Film Ranch International
- Dream Nine Studios - Pheromone Films - Ground Up Films - 1 Day Films
- TOO Productions - Guzzo Bros Films - Spicy Mango Media - Sky Brooks
Productions - Maluco Studios - Inspiration Films - Matchhead Films - Red
Gears Studios - AspectRatio235 Productions - Andrew Allan Creative
Tampa Bay Indie Filmmakers
Indie Filmmakers - Rick Danford - Paul Guzzo - Pete
Guzzo - Joe Davison - Chris Woods - Nolan Canova - Dan Torregrossa - Terence
Nuzum - John Miller - Shelby McIntyre - Jon Wolding - Chris Passinault
/ C. A. Passinault - Andy Lalino - Andrew Allan - Marcus Koch - Rod Grant
- Marcus Kempton - Dan Brienza - Melissa Webb - Sean Donohue
Independent Film Reviews
After Life - Brainjacked - The Uh-Oh Show - Demonition
Derby - Filthy - Bloody Mary - Blood Money - The Reaper - Alarum - The
Thing Under The Bed - Dimension Of The Dead - The Nightmare Collection
- The Pledge - The Web Of Darkness - Unearthed - Fearmakers - Beast -
100 Tears - Experiment 7 - As Night Falls - Frost Bite - Journey Into
Hell - I.M. Terror - 99 - Caged Dreams - The End Is Blossoming - Charlie
Wall - The Ghosts Of Ybor - Who is Delsin? - A Grave Matter - Milk Crate
Scars - Unbanned - Strip Club King: The Story Of Joe Redner - Chameleon
- Remembrance - The Trust - Red Moon - Broken Tomorrow - To Live Is To
Die - Pop - Shadow Of A Victim - Honey I’m Home - Sever - Bleed
- Spaventare - White Lie - Dark Comedy - Taste Me - Hennessy X Red - Vomit
Soup - Amerikan HoloKaust - The Sleaze Box - Mondo Socko - The Quiet Place
- Quiet Places - Mr. Engagement - PawnZ - Friendship - The Point - Reverence
- Shelters - Invisible Ink - Chuckles - Net Worth - Principle - Waveform
- Hell Walks The Earth - Burglar From Hell - Joe Vampire - Make Them Die
Sleazy (Short film compilation) - Naughty, Dirty, Nasty - Skumbagz - The
Book Of Nightmares - Death-Scort Service - Chaos A.D. - Rough Cut - Cannibal
Claus - Cherry
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