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01. Forward
recap: The demise and the rise of the support of independent film in Tampa
Bay.
02. The
Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and Shelby McIntyre’s UnBanned. Propaganda?
03. Supporting
independent film in Tampa Bay.
04. Halloween
Horror Picture Show 2013 Review.
05. Meet
and greet at the film festival Lobby for the Halloween Horror Picture
Show 2013.
06. The
Halloween Horror Picture Show 2013 Film Festival Event Scorecard.
Halloween Horror Picture Show 2013
Supporting independent film in Tampa Bay
At any rate, I’m getting off topic, but that’s how I feel
about it. They do not help their cause when they alienate the audience
which is not a part of the choir whom they are preaching to. I don’t
think that the gay and lesbian film festival supports local independent
filmmaking, either, and that’s a problem.
We need to stop selling out independent film in Tampa Bay!
We need to stop taking the easy way out. We need to stop fighting among
ourselves and support each other (and although I did not do anything wrong,
nor did I start anything with anyone, I am working toward overcoming my
differences with some people). We also need to run the troublemakers out
of the market, because they are no use to anyone, including themselves,
and undermine any potential independent film community that some of us
are truly working on establishing (I am far more than just words. I am
sincere about this, unlike some of those bastards out there exploiting
the good name of independent film, using people, and who are only out
for themselves).
We need to work on making independent film in Tampa Bay something
worth talking about and respecting, and on exporting films instead of
importing the competition of independent filmmakers.
In my opinion, the Gasparilla International Film Festival (I hate that
name, as it rips off Gasparilla, in my opinion, a Tampa Bay tradition,
and it is not original at all. I grew up here in Tampa Bay and am proud
of my local community, and doing something with branding which, in my
opinion, rips off the Gasparilla name and tradition rapes my fond childhood
memories of attending the Gasparilla parades with my family. Thank you
SO much for disrespecting and exploiting my childhood, and a Tampa Bay
tradition, you unoriginal and creatively-bankrupt bastards!) and the Sunscreen
Film Festival do not support independent film in Tampa Bay, and that is
just..... Sad.
Independent filmmakers need to give those film festivals something to
support! Most importantly, they need to, themselves, support film festivals
which support independent film!
This is why true independent film festivals are important, and why seeing
the return of the Halloween Horror Picture Show is great.
In 2009, when it was clear that the Halloween Horror Picture Show was
not returning, I started tinkering around with the idea of small
film festivals which supported independent film, including
underground film festivals, which is a concept
which took on a life of its own (more about that, shortly, as I did invent
the concept of underground film festivals, locally). As a protest about
the HHPS not returning, I came up with an inexpensive “film
festival in a car” concept called the “Halloween Drive-In”,
and everything was set. The catch, however, was that you needed four people
to pull it off, and the cancellation threshold for such a film festival
was low. With the Halloween Drive-In, all three of my participants cancelled
at the last minute, and I could not pull off a film festival in a car
with just myself.
So, this underground film festival was kicked around for a few years,
and never happened. At least I acquired a lot of really good horror DVD’s
from it (and it was ready to go on October 10, 2010; 10/10/10. My friends
cancelled at the last minute, and that is why I could not do it; it is
the ONLY reason that it did not happen).
Recently, a film festival in Vancouver bought the domain name for Halloween
Drive-In, and I can no longer even call it that (although I always thought
that the hyphen in “Drive-In” was awkward, the reason that
I did not have the domain name before they bought it). Although I am not
happy about it, I’m sure that I will come up with something better
to call it. I always do.
At least my heart was in the right place, and that horror film festival
in a car underground film festival WILL eventually happen, and I’m
thinking in October 2016, SEVEN years late.
Of course, with the Halloween Horror Picture Show now back, the original
inspiration for that horror film festival in a car is no longer there,
but there are many other reasons to pull it off, including showing support
for independent films, as well as proving that film festivals don’t
have to be pricey, pretentious affairs. Also, and mark my words, such
a film festival will be really, really cool. You’ll see.
Around that time, in 2009, I also came up with an underground
film festival where a group of industry peers and people representing
the target market of independent films would gather at any place, such
as a living room, and have a private independent film screening and group
peer review of those films, kind of like a watch party with a
lot of opinions expressed. Unlike a watch party, though, this underground
film festival, like the others, would be covered like an ordinary film
festival event, however, so the cost-effectiveness goes way up as far
as promoting, and supporting, independent film. Covered after-the-fact,
such a film festival could go toe-to-toe with even the largest film festivals.
This underground film festival, originally called the “Tampa
Bay Film Review”, eventually became the Sunburn
Film Festival, and it will begin in 2016, with several private
screenings of independent films and group peer reviews of those films
a year. The Sunburn Film Festival is the
flagship underground film festival event series for
Tampa Bay Film, and, while I understand that the Sunscreen
Film Festival may not be thrilled about the name (it was,
after all, a direct F.U. to Sunscreen the same way that Slamdance
was created in protest to Sundance), it was
never intended to compete directly with Sunscreen,
nor was it intended to take anything away from their branding.
It was also not intended to confuse anyone, which should not even be an
issue because it will not be marketed as a public film festival.
Sunburn is a small, private film festival, and Sunscreen is a large, public
film festival. Sunburn also has disclaimers all over the place
explaining this.
The irony with Sunburn, though, has nothing to do with Sunscreen. It has
more to do with Guzzo’s Coffeehouse Film Review
and the Tampa Film Review, which were monthly
film festivals which ended in 2009. You see, I originally designed the
flagship monthly film festival (NOT an underground film festival, which
is different) of Tampa Bay Film, the Tampa Bay Film Showcase,
to be a Tampa Film Review killer, and that’s not what happened,
or what resulted. You see, something like the Tampa Bay Film
Showcase takes substantial resources to pull off month after month
with consistency, and requires sponsors. As a result, the Tampa
Bay Film Showcase was delayed over the years.
Now scheduled to debut in a few years from now, the Tampa Bay Film Showcase
monthly film festival and professional networking event series is the
backbone of all of the large, public film festivals and independent film
events of Tampa Bay Film, and it will be used to screen and support independent
films, as well as for professional networking. The Tampa Bay Film Showcase
leads into the other film festivals, as well.
The irony with the Sunburn Film Festival, being a tiny,
scrappy, private film festival which can be mobilized and executed in
less than a week, and with little expense, is that it may very
well be the Tampa Film Review killer that the Tampa
Bay Film Showcase was supposed to be. The Sunburn Film Festival
is more cost-effective, as well as more effective, than the Tampa Film
Review ever was, and will be much more efficient, as well as superior
in every way. Considering that the Tampa Film Review was a PUBLIC monthly
film festival which catered to a large audience, if I were the
Guzzo brothers, I’d be embarrassed. Humiliated, even, and
rightfully so.
Of course, although the Sunburn Film Festival supports independent film,
some filmmakers will not like it. Why? Because it’s a peer group
review, and the group will give honest reviews of the films which are
screened. Some of those reviews will not be nice, and it is how it has
to be.
Going back to the hiatus of the Halloween Horror Picture Show
(and I promise that I am about to get to the actual review. It’s
just that what I’m writing about now is important, and had to be
included), I began to work on a horror film festival property, a public
film festival, which would fill the void left by the departure of the
Halloween Horror Picture Show because I feared that the HHPS was gone
for good, and would not be back.
So, I created the Reverence Film Festival, which
was named after an independent film which I worked on in 2001, as well
as a short film remake set for production soon (the short film will be
the centerpiece of the Reverence Film Festival, and the film festival
property will be built around it). Inspired by Andy Lalino’s Horror
and Hotties independent film festival and horror / exploitation fan
event from early 2007 (and I loved how Chris Woods showed up
at the Gasparilla Film Festival wearing a Horror and Hotties
shirt, as it was the opinion of many that Gasparilla did not support independent
film or independent filmmakers. It was like Woods was protesting, and
it was really cool!), the Reverence Film Festival expanded upon that with
my theme event technology to create the world’s most advanced, and
possibly first, independent film festival theme event.
Reverence is indeed unique, and it is a hybrid film festival
with no peers, and no parity. Of course, the Reverence
Film Festival is not intended to compete with the Halloween Horror Picture
Show, and the event property was designed to support it if it ever came
back.
This review is not about the Reverence Film Festival, however, and with
that festival not due to debut now for a few more years, we have plenty
of time to wait. It will be cool, and it will be worth the wait, but the
Halloween Horror Picture Show is also cool, and this is what this review
is about.
Welcome back, friend!
NEXT: Halloween Horror Picture Show 2013 Review.
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