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BAY FILM
INDEPENDENT FILM NOTICE
November 7, 2016
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
Long
delayed over the past decade, Tampa Bay Film Editor C. A. Passinault has
spent a lot of time building support infrastructure that he needs in order
to make independent films, much of which was done in 2015 when he invested
heavily into getting his audio and multimedia production studio up to
speed, and is now finalizing production infrastructure to make a series
of short independent films covering a wide range of genres. These independent
films will make up a portfolio of short independent films which he can
use to pitch investors for the production of state of the art feature
films using cutting-edge equipment, much of that equipment also needed
for event and interactive theme event support for his event planning company,
as well as video content for the Internet.
Those more ambitious feature films are years off, however, as Passinault
realizes that his filmmaking career is a long-term investment, much like
his investment into Tampa Bay Film and related support infrastructure,
and that he needs to take his time and do things right before attempting
to make a living in independent film. Until then, he will be supported
by his powerful, market-leading photography and design services business,
his event planning and production business, and his stage production business.
His independent film and production work will also benefit with the in-house
support of his businesses, such as retaining what he considers to be the
best photography and design company in Florida, Aurora PhotoArts, which
he owns.
Although the production work will be kept highly secret for some time,
the production work of all of his films will be the most heavily documented
out of any films or movies ever produced in Florida, as it will be used
to create inspiring instructional content for a FREE online film school
in the future, primarily published on Tampa Film Revolution and on Independent
Film Revolution. This will serve to inspire a new generation of independent
filmmakers to start making independent films, filmmakers that the Tampa
Bay area will need to establish the first real independent film community
and to, eventually, establish an innovative and productive local independent
film industry where filmmakers and their projects will be justifiably
respected, and which the Tampa Bay market will finally export independent
films instead of being seen as some location for Hollywood to do another
dumb movie, an industry where all filmmakers benefit. It will also serve
to undermine and cripple predatory film school schemes operated by failed
filmmakers at the expense of aspiring filmmakers, which has been a problem
for years, and is a symptom of a weak and dysfunctional independent film
scene. These predatory film school schemes teach things which are practically
useless to new filmmakers, as they teach the Hollywood way, and the result
is that they make money at the expense of those interested in filmmaking
because those “students” become discouraged and never become
independent filmmakers. As a result, the core group of “filmmakers”
keeps any potential competition beat down and out, crippling the local
film scene, undermining any hope of establishing a film industry, and
continuing to do as they please, mostly at the expense of others.
With Passinault experiencing discrimination and slander from many of the
current players in the local independent scene, he has washed his hands
of it and has condemned most of it. With so-called filmmakers catering
to the lowest common denominator with cheap, pointless, bloody exploitation
and “cult” films, which is in no way representative of what
a real independent film scene should be, Passinault has determined that
we need a new independent film scene with a new generation of independent
filmmakers, and that the trash needs to be taken out.
This said, Passinault is not against grindhouse, cult, horror, and related
genres. He just doesn’t think that the current efforts are being
done right, don’t do the genres justice, and do nothing to help
establish a genuine, professional independent film scene. In preparation
for a new generation of filmmakers who will do those genres justice, Passinault
has invested in properties blocking current filmmakers from what they
need, reserving them for what is coming, and is conducting an aggressive
campaign to undermine what is here, now. Passinault now owns a large portfolio
of domain names, too, all .Coms, including, but hardly limited to, Florida
Horror, Tampa Bay Arthouse (what independent films primarily need to be
in order to establish and maintain a thriving local independent film scene
and industry), Tampa Bay Grindhouse, Tampa Bay Horror, Tampa Bay Horror
Film Festival, Tampa Bay Film School, Tampa Bay Film Workshop, Tampa Bay
Entertainment Industry, Independent Film Revolution, Florida Independent
Film, Tampa Bay Film Community, Florida Arthouse, Florida Grindhouse,
and Florida Entertainment Industry.
Once established as an independent filmmaker, and once he has several
good films behind him, Passinault will expand on his free online film
school with FREE collaborative independent film production workshops,
with practical instruction in cost-effective filmmaking which is actually
relevant to independent filmmaking, and not the Hollywood way of making
movies, which most aspiring filmmakers do not have the resources to do.
These free workshops, which are superior to the predatory film schools
even if they cost more, will destroy the market for the predatory film
schools and put them out of business. They will open the doors for hundreds
of new independent filmmakers to begin making films in the Tampa Bay area,
which is exactly what our area needs.
Passinault has also instructed his network of powerful talent resource
web site, many of which are used by professional actors and talent, to
educate actors and talent what to avoid in independent film; essentially,
most of the current filmmakers will be cut off from actors and talent
that they need to make their so-called “films” with, and there
isn’t anything that they can do about it except try to clean up
their act.
Anyone wanting to cater to the garbage of independent film, creating trashy
exploitation and so-called “cult” films, are going to produce
themselves right out of business, as they will not be able to compete
with what is coming, and some creative and revolutionary independent films
created by a next generation of independent filmmakers, independent filmmakers
which have long been discriminated against and attacked by the neurotic,
insecure amateurs whom make up the majority of the current independent
film scene; those amateur filmmakers will be displaced.
True support of independent film, Passinault realizes, is not to support
everything; something that people such as Lisa the blogger never comprehended,
as she, in our opinion, blindly supported anything called an independent
film and anyone calling themselves a filmmaker. To support independent
film is to be selective about what is supported, and to do some weeding,
or culling.
A garden full of weeds is never productive.
Passinault is also introducing some checks and balances into the local
market which will keep current filmmakers in check.
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