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Fandomonium
in Tampa Bay Event and Film Festival 001
01. Introduction
02. The
Journey into fandom begins
03. The
story of the swag bag
04. Role
call
05. Independent
film screening
06. Interviews
07. Photography
shoot, closing and event score card
Fandomonium
in Tampa Bay 001
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Introduction
A
Tampa Bay Film exclusive!
Words and pictures by C. A. Passinault
Additional content credited to supporting contributors with permission
and full promotion.
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There will be
another review of Fandomonium in Tampa Bay in an upcoming issue of Frontier
Pop covering the pop culture and fan angle, ironically several months
after the event, while this review on Tampa Bay Film focuses more on the
film festival and the independent film angle; we will link to it when
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more information.
After
over four days of uploading videos and editing pictures, I can finally
write this review of Fandomonium in
Tampa Bay.
I am getting ahead of myself, however.
Allow me start from the beginning.
Fandomonium in Tampa Bay had a strong legacy before it even began, as
its organizers have the pedigree of having produced the best independent
film festivals and events in the Tampa Bay area over the past 12 years.
Rick Danford and his partners at Renegade Films started out with a series
of four legendary film festivals for the horror fans, Saints
and Sinners, starting in 2002. Danford later went on to
produce the annual Halloween Horror Picture Show
film festivals starting in 2002, which ran until 2008, and then stopped,
until they resumed in 2013 (and I need to get all of those reviews up,
in time, and I will. The search engine caches have been cleared of the
old review content on the old Tampa Bay Film sites, and they will be enhanced
and republished on this new Tampa Bay Film site, soon; probably over a
series of several days, or weeks, in a row). Danford also did one of the
greatest independent film festivals in the past ten years, which he used
to debut his excellent short film, Alarum, in 2008; the Ladies
of the Night double feature. What made that one-off film
festival awesome, more than anything, however, was it was what I consider
to be the great swan song of the old guard, as well as
a prelude to what was to come in independent film, as it was in the midst
of a crashing economy, and 
EVERYONE
seemed to be there. There were even actors and production crews from large
feature independent films, which mainly would be Brainjacked, which was
then in production, in attendance, as they took a break from the rigorous
filmmaking process to attend. Indeed, the only people in independent film
who were not there would have to be Chris Woods, Shelby McIntyre, Paul
Guzzo, Pete Guzzo, Terence Nuzum, Nolan Canova, and a few others, as everyone
else was there (Although, to be fair, Lisa was there to cover it for Nolan’s
site, and her coverage was OK, but not up to her usual high standards,
IMO. I know that as an avid reader of her usually excellent independent
film blog, that I was... disappointed. Some other people told me the same
thing, too, as recently as this year! Also, IMO, she seemed to do a lot
of ass-kissing in her “review” with people whom she seemed
desperate to be friends with, which did not surprise me at all, because
it was her usual M.O.). Mike Christopher was there, too, although it would
be another six years before we would talk and actually meet. My friend,
entertainer and model Ann Poonkasem, also attended, as did Somali Rose
and Krista Grotte. It was a very special film festival, and a lot of fun.
Speaking of legendary one-off’s, another awesome independent film
festival was 2007's Horror and Hotties by Andy
Lalino. Everyone seemed to be at that one, too, with the exception of
Nolan, Terence, the Guzzo twins, and that blogger, Lisa Whateverhernameis,
who no longer blogs. Chris Woods and Shelby McIntyre were there, and were
cool. I hung
out with Chris Woods during that film festival, and it was a lot of fun;
Woods, regardless of what he is doing now, is actually (or was) a cool
person. Alas, however, although Lalino went on to do the brilliant one-off
GASP independent film festival under the Gasparilla International
Film Festival, or GIFF, umbrella, there would never be another
Horror and Hotties film festival, at least up until the present.
There needs to be. I would also like one of those Horror and Hotties shirts,
because they are collector’s items.
That pedigree is what made me especially excited about the news that Danford
and Lalino had teamed up to start a new event and film festival series,
Fandomonium in Tampa Bay.
Sunday, June 22, 2014 was the date, with the time being from 1PM to 5PM.
The place was the Tampa Pitcher Show, the venue for Halloween Horror Picture
Show 2013 and a number of independent film screenings and fundraisers
to help the venue go digital.
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