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NEWS 08/30/11 - We know that it sounds like a broken record of sorts, and we’ve even lost count on how many times that we’ve been pushing back the launch of our film festivals and indie film events, but keep in mind that all of these schedules are dependent upon each other, as all of the events are interconnected. We also want the resources in place to do everything right so that we can deliver consistent quality and effective support for Tampa filmmakers. It will be worth the wait, we can assure you all.
Of course, the near-collapse of the economy in late 2008, and the continued recession, continue to limit what we’ve been able to do, and have added to our delays. This will change, as our resources will soon be in place, and will enable our events to thrive even in a recession. These events WILL eventually happen. Once the first film festival event debuts, it will set apart a chain of events and dates that are pretty solid; one reason that we keep pushing everything back is that we need to have the resources to not only pull off one film festival series, but all of them so that the schedule of interconnectivity and lead-ins is not disrupted. This is a lot more than just launching one event series, and it is a bit more complicated. It’s required, though, and frankly, we would not want it any other way. This is what Tampa filmmakers and indie filmmaking in Tampa Bay needs, and it is an example of the resolve that we have toward supporting independent filmmaking in Tampa Bay!
The primary linchpin of this whole parade getting underway is the production of the indie films of C. A. Passinault, which will be produced under his Dream Nine Studios production company, as well as his other indie film companies. Our film festivals, especially the Reverence Film Festival and the Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional networking event series, need Passinault films to show. Just about all of the initial Passinault independent films produced the first three years of his “official” filmmaking career (Passinault has worked on indie films since 1993, so he is actually a filmmaker with a lot of experience, which will soon be obvious) will be short films and experimental films, and these are important to not only build a portfolio of indie films to obtain the investors and the high-end equipment which will be needed for ambitious feature film projects, but Passinault intends to inspire a new generation of Tampa filmmakers by producing good, even revolutionary, independent films utilizing basic off-the-shelf equipment at very low cost. This will demonstrate value in indie filmmaking, and will open the door for a new generation of filmmakers in the Tampa Bay market to make some of the most innovative independent films in history. These filmmakers will put Tampa indie film on the map!
Once Passinault begins making his films, the way will be paved for the beginning of our film festivals and indie film events. Passinault has indicated recently that he may be able to start production of his first films in early 2012, using solid HD cameras like the Canon HF series and off-the-shelf, often re purposed, gear. ALL of these filmmaking efforts will be heavily documented on Tampa Bay Film and our sites so that other filmmakers can also make their films using the same low-cost, but effective, production techniques. Tampa Bay Film encourages aspiring indie filmmakers to become their own self-contained film school, and to teach themselves filmmaking while being inspired, and educated, by the efforts of other indie filmmakers in the Tampa Bay area, as well as elsewhere. Those efforts will not be without professional guidance, either, as Tampa Bay Film will be the only film school that you will ever need, and we are free. While we will not be making any guarantees, nor will we assume any potential liability for Tampa filmmakers, we intend to document everything that we do as filmmakers, and make our tools available here for our use, while allowing other filmmakers to also utilize what works for us for their projects. That’s a win/ win for everyone, unless you are looking to exploit Tampa filmmakers, or are trying to run a film school or any film festival which does not have the best interests of Tampa indie film in mind.
Currently, based upon the production schedule of C. A. Passinault, we now have a tentative schedule in place for our film festivals and events. Keep in mind that these dates are not official, and that they can change at any time, and without warning (although the relative schedule is set). They are currently looking good, though.

1. Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival
This launched in January 2007, and it is still going strong. After a relaunch in 2008 as a stand-alone web site, the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival is currently the most effective film festival in Florida, with more “attendance” and higher viewings of its indie films in its playlist than all Florida film festivals combined! Open 24 hours a day and seven days a week, and accessible anywhere that there is an Internet connection, there are lots of people watching films on our online film festival at this very moment, from all over the world!
No other online film festival in Tampa Bay, or in Florida, even comes close, although a few have been spotted trying to compete, and some have appropriated our ideas, which we see as an acknowledgment that we’re the best.
The Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival has a strong future ahead, with incredible upgrades planned. It will be interconnected with, and will tie into, all of out film festival and indie film events, too.

2. Underground Film Festivals
2012, assorted schedules as needed.
The first Tampa Bay Film underground film festivals, which are tiny, usually invitation-only film festivals, are scheduled to debut in 2012. They will be covered here on Tampa Bay Film like any other film festival event. Underground film festivals include our now-tentatively branded Tampa Bay Film Review and the Halloween Drive-In series, as well as others.

3. Reverence Film Festival
Fall 2013, and every year thereafter.
A hybrid film festival utilizing theme event technologies, with an exploitation and horror film emphasis (In the spirit of Saints and Sinners film festivals, the Halloween Horror Picture Show film festivals, the Horror and Hotties film festival, and the Ladies of the Night film festival), this will be our first film festival event. The Reverence Film Festival will be the best horror and exploitation film festival ever done in the Tampa Bay market, and it will set, and maintain, the standard. It will also be one of the most innovative, and unique, film festivals ever done, with some really fun features not found anywhere else.
One reason that some Passinault films need to be done before all of this can begin is that the Reverence short indie film, by Passinault, will become a regular feature of this film festival series. Of course, the first Reverence Film Festival will also serve as a marketing lead-in to the debut of our Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and networking events.

4.Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional networking events
January 2014, and every month thereafter.
The Tampa Film Showcase will be the backbone of all of our film festivals and indie film events. It will be just as important as our advanced annual film festival series, the Frontier Film Festival, which the Tampa Film Showcase leads into. Although the Tampa Film Showcase is a smaller monthly film festival series, it is expected to be able to put large annual film festivals in their place by demonstrating that they are not nearly as cost-effective. Professional networking, too, will be a major component of the Tampa Film Showcase. Many features of the Tampa Film Showcase are still highly classified and secret, and will not be revealed until the event series debuts.
Although short indie films will be the emphasis of the Tampa Film Showcase, it will also screen feature films. Many of the films which are screened at the Tampa Film Showcase will become a part of the official selection of the Frontier Film Festival on the following year. A little secret: the Frontier Film Festival will become a major source of independent films for the Tampa Film Showcase, an example that you need an annual film festival to tie into your monthly film festival if you want a supply of good films to show consistently.

5. Frontier Film Festival
January 2015, and every year thereafter.
This is our flagship film festival, and it will be a large, advanced annual film festival. The Frontier Film Festivals is designed to go head to head with the Gasparilla International Film Festival, the Sarasota Film Festival, and the Sunscreen Film Festival. The Frontier Film Festival is designed to dominate them all, and become the standard in annual film festival events for Tampa independent film and independent filmmaking in Tampa Bay. This is redundant, however, as it is expected that the Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festivals, which lead into the Frontier Film Festival, will also dominate the larger annual film festivals.
Of course, there has to be at least 12 Tampa Film Showcase film festival and networking events before the Frontier Film Festival can finally debut. The Frontier Film Festival also has to debut before we can kick off the Tampa Film Conference, too. See how all of these schedules are dependent upon the other film festivals and events?

6. Tampa Film Conference
Spring 2015, and every year thereafter.
This is a very special independent film event series, and it will become the core of innovation in indie filmmaking in Tampa Bay. This will also be the key for Tampa filmmakers to becoming worldwide leaders in independent film. This will also become an important event for the upcoming Tampa indie film community, once it is established.
Frankly, we are surprised that no one else has thought of an indie film conference for Tampa filmmakers before we did, but on second thought, most of the others do not really have the best interests of Tampa filmmakers and indie filmmaking in Tampa Bay in mind, now, do they?
Although the format and features of the Tampa Film Conference are completed, details at this time are classified, and are very secret.

7. Other Frontier Stage Productions and Frontier Event Planning Events
2012 and ongoing.
All other event projects of our event and production companies will also be interconnected with our film festivals and indie film events, which will lead to unmatchable support. More on this, soon.

NEWS 08/26/11 - Prospect of perpetual war in Tampa indie film increases dramatically upon discovery of evidence which galvanizes our agenda and which provokes our strongest response yet; Tampa Bay Film prepares for years of conflict.
(The evidence that we are referring to, however, remains classified, because our response is on the down-low right now, also a secret, and revealing that evidence would make it easy to figure out what we did).
While we declared the Tampa indie film war to be over three months ago, we just did something that may force it to start all over again (but it had to be done). Regarding the efforts of others, all of this has happened before, and it looks like it is happening again. Additionally, we discovered something a few weeks ago which is quite inexcusable, and it proves that the Tampa indie film clique had malicious intentions toward Tampa Bay Film from the start.
While we are not declaring war anew, it does look like this perpetual war in Tampa indie film will continue, especially after some people figure out what we have done (hopefully, it will take a couple of months for them to figure it out; we are sure to be condemned for our actions when they do. What we did is perhaps the most blatant move that we’ve done since this war all began in 2008, and it is guaranteed to get some people really mad, although it is a fitting response to what we have discovered). Historically, our three month break will look like a hiccup in this overall lengthy campaign, an aggressive campaign for change in Tampa independent film. The Tampa indie film war will last for many years to come, and we are gearing up to support a prolonged effort.
In related news, many of the Tampa Bay Film sites are gaining ground in our efforts to clean up our inconsistent SEO performance. This is especially true with the Tampa Film Blog. A few weeks ago, we were set to scrap the existing Tampa Film Blog, use it as an archive, and start all over again (which is when we discovered something which pretty much made the prospect of peace in the Tampa indie film scene nearly impossible). After some thought, however, we decided to continue with the existing Tampa Film Blog, and so far, it has made some progress. The Tampa Film Blog should be where it needs to be in just over a year from now, with new posts, content, and referenced links from other Tampa Bay Film sites. The other Tampa Bay Film sites will also see a large influx of new content, and the meta site configuration of the sites will finally see its potential.
There are several new Tampa Bay Film sites, too, which don’t fit on the right-side menu of the present Super Raptor configuration; the Super Raptor configuration supports eight sites in a meta site configuration, we are up to at least twelve right now, and it could go as high as sixteen by the end of 2012. This is why all of the Tampa Bay Film sites will be among the first to receive new Dreadnought Class web sites, which is expected by the end of the year. Tampa Bay Film and its sites will all share the same design, too, for maximum continuity; the meta site will basically become one huge web site, with each site being a dedicated section under its own domain name. That design, too, will be a radical departure from the design that Tampa Bay Film has basically had since in launched in early 2007; our fifth anniversary will see an entirely new look, and concept, in resource web sites.

NEWS 08/09/11 - Tampa Bay Film and the Tampa Bay film site network emerges from its three month hiatus (and review/ planning) to resume updates, with more content added to the main Tampa Bay Film site, new posts on the Tampa Film Blog, indie film reviews on our Tampa Film Review site, and a large upcoming update on the Online Film Festival. The online film festival will see the addition of a lot of new films in the coming weeks, too.
While the Tampa indie film war was declared over three months ago on the Tampa Film Blog, and it is technically over, it’s not going to seem like it is. We call it as we see it, and there is no way around it. Tampa filmmakers whom have talent, and whom are actually good won’t have to worry about anything, but since the majority of Tampa filmmakers are so bad that they should consider giving up, they are not going to get good reviews from us (We are not Lisa. We don’t mindlessly and blindly praise and promote filmmakers, regardless of their work, and our opinions and reviews can be taken seriously. Tampa indie film needs a strong dose of the_truth, and reality. We don’t want to be popular, and that’s not our goal. At the end of the day, we have to be able to respect what we say and do, and that’s all that matters).
In related news, with the famine of decent Tampa films being produced now, our network of film festivals is on hold. Don’t expect to see our first one until 2013 at the earliest; more about this will be published on the Tampa Film Blog.

NEWS 05/08/11 - International Independent Film Site Planned
A new web site project, an international indie film web site which will tie into every aspect of the Tampa Bay Film sites, is planned. This new site, planned for launch in late 2011, will be a new Dreadnought Class web site, the Dreadnought Class site being a late third-generation site design class with full upgrade capabilities to fourth-generation designs, designed to initially augment, and then replace, the Raptor 3 and Super Raptor Class sites as front line resource sites which are optimized for defending against and combating scams. Although the Dreadnought Class site has the latest scam fighting and professional support resources built in, it also features modular expandability, as well as the interlinked arrayed web site meta site capabilities of the Super Raptor Class sites, the Venus 3 Venus Class sites, and the Mosaic Class sites (of those three, the Mosaic Class site being a cutting edge site design class used by Aurora PhotoArts and Eos MediaArts; it will also be among the most numerous, with over 24 planned to be online within a year). The Tampa Bay Film sites will also be converted to Dreadnought Class sites afterwards, with the plan being that all sites would be converted, and synched, by mid 2012, just in time for the first Tampa film festival events to launch.
The Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival, which, despite its Tampa Bay geographical branding, is officially a worldwide international film festival, will become the official online film festival of this new web site.
The prime mission of this international indie film site will be to inspire innovation in independent film worldwide, as well as promote Tampa Bay Film and an indie film innovation resource and support the Tampa indie film scene and the upcoming Tampa indie film community as a leader in independent film.

NEWS 05/08/11 - Best Tampa Film Festival Named for 2011
The best film festival in the Tampa Bay market, in our opinion, is the Sunscreen Film Festival, easily beating out the Gasparilla International Film Festival and even the Sarasota Film Festival. Although programming and organization are similar, the Sunscreen Film Festival has the edge. One thing that impressed Tampa Bay Film above all else with the Sunscreen Film Festival is the original name and branding, as well as a top-notch graphic logo. They are certainly not derivative, and they don’t capitalize on a Tampa tradition like the Gasparilla International Film Festival does.

NEWS 04/28/11 - Finished and uploaded content for our new filmmakers section, which will help investors evaluate Tampa filmmakers. Also finished our production company section. These are RECOGNIZED Tampa filmmakers and Tampa indie film production companies.
We also overhauled the popular Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival, which, for the past three years, consistently proved itself as the top platform for the promotion and marketing of independent films. Since the online film festival is up and running 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, and is available on the Internet via an array of devices everywhere in the world, our viewing numbers are much higher than all Tampa Bay and Florida film festival events combined.
The overhaul and upgrade of the online film festival was primarily geared to addressing the issues of filmmakers pulling their films without warning, as well as other issue which made films unplayable. This will no longer be the problem that it has been, because we will NOT REMOVE any film without the express written permission of the filmmaker (and since we often have to have proof that it is really you, filmmakers may expect to be required to call us, too, which is up to our discretion). Filmmakers who rudely pull down their files without informing us, putting a hole in our playlist, will find that their film will not be automatically removed from the online film festival, and that it will be moved to our new Graveyard channel. The reason for this is to maintain search results position for said film, and that the filmmaker will be inspired to replace their film file and make it playable again when they get lots of complaints that all search inquiries lead to our online film festival, when their film does not play when people try to watch it (and, as a result, the viewer then proceeds to watch other films which do work). When the filmmaker also notices that we are the top result for search inquiries for their film, and that it does not play, they will then see the logic of making sure that it is playable. Of course, we also try our best to maintain the integrity of our playlist and our main indie film channels on the online film festival, and we don’t want our viewers clicking on a bunch of films which do not work, which is the reason that we have a Graveyard channel. The Graveyard channel is for maintaining search positions for indie films which do not work, while allowing us to remove the film from the general playlist so that our viewers can watch films which do work.
This is the key to stabilizing the integrity of the playlist on the online film festival so that we can add a lot more films in its present incarnation, and make the process cost-effective as far as our time goes. Also, we expect some filmmakers to try to pull their films when we review them, and want to discourage this practice. Because it is more difficult to make us “go away” now, we’ve added a Dumpster channel for the worst films playing on the online film festival, and will soon be reviewing as many films as possible on the online film festival, linking to reviews on the Tampa Film Review Tampa Bay Film site; the reviews linking back to the films.

NOTE 04/20/11 - The Tampa Film Review site, a Tampa Bay Film site, which has been on hiatus for much of last year, will begin seeing large updates. Upcoming reviews are as follows:

100 Tears
The Marcus Koch / Joe Davison mixed bag slasher/ gore/ snuff indie film is about to receive the most comprehensive film review that it has ever received, and this will become the definitive review for the film on the Internet. Film reviewer C. A. Passinault has spent months, and countless viewings, compiling 15 pages of notes and studying the film. Passinault also has knowledge of the film which no one else has, including anecdotes which people who worked on the film are not even aware of.
The review for 100 Tears may clock in at 20 pages.

Brainjacked
This film, which is much better than 100 Tears, will be split into three features clocking in at over 30 pages. The review itself may be over 12. Like 100 Tears, the Tampa Bay Film review of Brainjacked will become the definitive review for the film on the Internet.
The three parter will include:
1. The Review of Brainjacked (No spoilers, for film fans)
2. Brainjacked Production Review (Spoilers - Production Critique)
3. Brainjacked Lobotomized: Enhancing a classic (Spoilers - Ideas which could have made Brainjacked better/ one upping)

Passinault, as an entertainment professional and a writer, will also be deconstructing films and putting out ideas which the filmmakers can learn from to make their next efforts better.

NOTE 12/31/10 - We are about to add THREE more Tampa Bay Film sites to the network, which will make a total of 11 Tampa Bay Film sites, although one of them will be a crossover annex site interlinked with DJ Frontier properties. Two of those sites will be new, advanced Marquee Class sites for two of our film festival properties, which are 3rd / 4th Generation web sites with full compatibility with the standard Tampa Bay Film Super Raptor Class site format used by the existing eight Tampa Bay Film Sites. Those new Marquee Class film festival sites will be for our flagship annual film festival, the Frontier Film Festival, as well as the annual Halloween/ Horror theme film festival, the Reverence Film Festival. The third site, the crossover annex site, will be a Super Raptor class site for the Tampa Music Festival. The Tampa Music Festival will replace the music video channel on the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival, so design synch and continuity with our popular online film festival is critical. The online film festival and the music festival will have a tight interconnectivity, as it will be both an extension of the online film festival and a part of the DJ Frontier web site array. In related news, we are looking at adding a 12th Tampa Bay Film site to our site network in 2011.

It's all about community. It's all about support. It's all about establishing new, professional standards in Tampa filmmaking. It's about making people accountable for what they do and say. There are eight Tampa Bay Film web sites in our Tampa Bay Film site network. Each site has its own domain name, and can be directly accessed, for your convenience, directly by its individual domain name, as well as from each site. You may navigate between the Tampa Bay Film sites by using the menu on the right. Tampa Bay Film is set up this way so that we can be an easy to use resource for anyone interested in indie film, and in advancing independent filmmaking in the Tampa Bay market. We are the authority on Tampa independent film, and also work to set and maintain market standards. Essentially, all eight Tampa Bay Film sites make up one huge meta site, but each individual site in the collective has its own unique sections and content. Use the menu on the left to navigate within each site. The Tampa Bay Film sites include Tampa Bay Film, the Tampa Film Blog, the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival, the Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional networking event series, Tampa Film Festivals, Tampa Film Review, Tampa Film Conference, and Tampa Film Community. For more information on each Tampa Bay Film site network web site, please keep reading (information about this site, Tampa Bay Film, can be found below the other site descriptions. Thank you.).

All Tampa Bay Film sites are branded and marketed under Tampa Bay Film, and are directly accessible from TampaBayFilm.Com, which is the main site.

TAMPA FILM BLOG - 08/29/11 - Can be accessed directly at TampaFilmBlog.Com. The Tampa Film Blog: Where Tampa filmmakers unite. News. Opinions. Knowledge. Power. Read, Post, Promote, Debate, Inquire - It is up to you! Have an opinion or something to say? Have, or know, some indie film news? Need to promote your latest project? Do you have an indie film announcement? The Tampa Film Blog is the first professional blog for the tampa indie film scene. We don't cheerlead, and tell it how it is. We also make a sincere effort to only support things that are good for Tampa independent film. The Tampa Film Blog is the most widely read, and respected, source of information on Tampa indie film. Our blog also contains much more information which is relevant to the advancement of Tampa indie film than other blogs (unlike so-called blogs which hype their friends and don't tell you the entire story. Do you want information on what is really going on, or do you want to read a bunch of propaganda?).

TAMPA BAY FILM ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL - 08/29/11 - Can be accessed directly at TampaOnlineFilmFestival.Com. The Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival: See what's playing in indie film! Our online film festival started out as a built-in online film festival built into the Tampa Bay Film site when we launched in January 2007. In late 2008, the online film festival was re-launched as a stand-alone web site, and had improvements which made it a second generation online film festival. The online film festival is still directly accessed from our site, as it is interlinked with our site like our other sites are. Since it launched, our online film festival has grown tremendously in popularity and influence. It now has a higher "attendance" (viewings of films from individual site visitors) than all Florida film festivals combined, and is the most effective Tampa film festival as far as promoting indie films. Although the online film festival shows indie films from all over the world in order to inspire Tampa filmmakers, our priority, and focus, is on Tampa indie films.

TAMPA MUSIC FESTIVAL - 04/20/11 - The Tampa Music Festival is a part of the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival. It is an online film festival focusing on music videos and the prmotion of new music.

TAMPA FILM SHOWCASE - 08/29/11 - Our main film festival site can be accessed directly at TampaFilmShowcase.Com. The Tampa Film Showcase: Watch. Network. Work Together. Our Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional networking event series has been in the works since 2007, and it is our most important film festival property, serving as a backbone for our other film festivals, and a tie-in with all of our other film festivals. The Tampa Film Showcase is currently scheduled to debut in January, 2014 (officially, it's TBA, and this is highly tentative). Why the almost-6 year development time? Because support infrastructure needs to be in place to support a film festival event which needs to be effective, uphold a standard, and be consistent each and every month. Sure, a one-off, or once a year film festival can be quickly put together. Not this one. We have a lot of details to get right, and a lot of work to make sure that it starts off strong, and keeps going strong. This is a professional event series with high standards, and it is a monthly film festival which will be so effective, that it will give the largest annual film festivals a run for their money! Unlike some large annual film festivals, the Tampa Film Showcase is one which gives priority to Tampa indie film and advancing filmmaking in Tampa. We are not about advertising the Tampa Bay market as a location to be used by outside production companies; outside production companies which would compete with Tampa filmmakers and make it hard to do films in Tampa Bay. The Tampa Film Showcase also leads into a large Tampa film festival which will tie directly into it. Another thing: The Tampa Film Showcase is not another Tampa Film Review (TFR) monthly film festival. The Tampa Film Showcase is an effective film festival and networking event which supports Tampa indie film and does not show amateur films that would only bore the audience and make the Tampa filmmaking scene look bad. Our film festivals are the new standard, and they are going to be be very effective in promoting, and advancing, Tampa filmmaking!
Due to some trade secrets that we do not wish to reveal, many aspects, and information, about the Tampa Film Showcase will not be available on the site until after it debuts. The site is currently in a beta stage, and is intentionally missing a lot of features. The site is not completely operational, as we do not wish for unethical film festival organizers to steal our ideas and dilute the impact that this film festival, and our other film festivals, will have on the Tampa Bay market. The Tampa Film Showcase, upon its debut, will be one of the most advanced, and professionally polished, film festivals in the world when it debuts. The Tampa indie film market will have some of the best film festivals in the world, and it is our agenda to help establish Tampa filmmaking as one of the best, and most innovative, independent film markets in the United States. Are we talking about a revolution in not just Tampa indie film, but independent film as a whole? We just might be! We're excited about what is coming, and so should you!

FRONTIER FILM FESTIVAL - 08/30/11 - The Frontier Film Festival - Tampa Bay Film's flagship film festival, this annual film festival is tightly integrated with the Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional networking event series, which leads into the Frontier Film Festival. The Frontier Film Festival is tentatively scheduled to debut in Q1 2015, and this depends upon the debut of the Tampa Film Showcase, as a full year run of 12 monthly Tampa Film Showcase film festival events has to happen before the Frontier Film Festival can debut.

TAMPA FILM FESTIVALS - 08/30/11 - Can be accessed directly at TampaFilmFestivals.Com. This Tampa Bay Film site is a marketing site for the five main Tampa Bay Film film festival properties (although the Tampa Film Showcase has its own stand-alone web site, and domain name), additional film festivals which were are associated with, and numerous underground film festivals. The Tampa Film Festivals site also serves as a directory, resource, and a means of coverage for other film festivals. Each of our film festival properties with a web site hosted on Tampa Film Festivals will have a true stand-alone web site installed within a hosting directory, and those sites would not share the web site design template of the Tampa Film Festivals site; each film festival would have its own web site, but not a domain name, and all would be
marketed using TampaFilmFestivals.Com.
Starting in 2012, Tampa Bay Film teams will aggressively, and comprehensively, cover Tampa film festivals and every Tampa film event which we can. Tampa film festival coverage will be published on TampaFilmFestivals.Com, and these will reference the related film festival reviews published on Tampa Film Review. We will publish content on the most relevant Tampa Bay Film site, and will reference supporting content on our other sites. Film festival coverage and reviews, effective immediately, will be published separately on relevant sites, but conducted by assigned members of the attending Tampa Bay Film team for the most comprehensive coverage available anywhere. Our teams will also cover our own film festivals, including the underground film festivals (the tiny underground film festivals will be covered,and will be just as relevant, as the large film festivals. These underground film festivals are important, and may serve as a viral lead-in to out more conventional film festivals).

REVERENCE FILM FESTIVAL - 08/30/11 - The Reverence Film Festival is an annual horror, halloween, and exploitation film theme film festival. It utilizes advanced, exclusive Eventi Events / Eventi Stage Interactive Theme Event (ITE) technologies, which make it one of the most creative, and unique, film festival event series in Florida, as well as the United States. The Reverence Film Festival is a new species of film festival, and is unlike any film festival anyone has ever experienced. Tentatively, the debut of the Reverence Film Festival is scheduled for fall 2013, which would make it the first large, public film festival from Tampa Bay Film, Frontier Pop, and Eventi Stage; this first major film festival would be preceded by an array of private underground film festivals in 2012 and 2013. The first Reverence Film Festival will also, of course, serve as a lead-in for the debut of the Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional networking event series, which will debut weeks later, remember that our array of film festivals are all interconnected, and they all promote and lead in to each other.

TAMPA FILM REVIEW - 08/29/11 - Can be accessed directly at TampaFilmReview.Com. This is the general review site for Tampa Bay Film, with all of our reviews published there, including reviews for Tampa film festivals, indie films, filmmakers, production companies, film events, and more. Interviews and normal coverage would be published on Tampa Bay Film, although all content would reference supporting content published on relevant Tampa Bay Film sites. The Tampa Bay Film Tampa Film Review site features a large, comprehensive guide, with supporting reviews, for the five year run of The Tampa Film Review, or TFR, monthly film festival, which came to an end in January 2009. Currently, as of February 27, 2010, we have two TFR reviews published. Four more are on the way, and they will be published on Tampa Film Review, for a total of six TFR reviews, making Tampa Bay Film the authority on the history, and the effectiveness, of this monthly film festival series.

TAMPA FILM CONFERENCE - 08/30/11 - Can be accessed directly at TampaFilmConference.Com. This indie film industry event series is still a way off, and probably won't debut until sometime in 2015. Since it supports a professional Tampa indie film community, which has not been established yet, this probably won't happen until after a true film community in the Tampa Bay market emerges. C. A. Passinault has designed the Tampa Film Conference, and already has all of the details down, but it will be a long time before any of those details are revealed. Like most other properties which incorporate trade secrets, some details about the Tampa Film Conference will be secret even after the event debuts. The Tampa Film Conference is more classified than our film festival properties, as it addresses the Tampa indie film business. Check the Tampa Film Conference site for the information that we are allowed to give at this point- which is not much. Note that the annual Frontier Film Festivals would heavily promote and lead in to this annual Tampa indie film industry event, and that it cannot debut until the first Frontier Film Festival debuts. Of course, the debut of the Frontier Film Festival is also dependent on the first season of at least a year's worth of 12 Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional networking event series film festival events, which in turn are dependent upon the Reverence Film Festival to lead into that series, so you can see how one event leads to another. Once all events are up and running, they will be a regular occurrence.

TAMPA FILM COMMUNITY - 08/29/11 - Can be accessed directly at TampaFilmCommunity.Com. Tampa Bay currently has a thriving, although dysfunctional, independent film scene, but we don't have an established Tampa film community yet. Sure, it's been claimed that one exists, but actions, not words, are the only ways to measure whether or not that claim is true. It's not a community when a Tampa indie film clique masquerades as one in order to discredit perceived competition, discriminate, slander people who try to get involved, steal from other filmmakers, and generally try to sabotage each other. No wonder there is so much mistrust! Tampa Bay Film, by bringing professional accountability to the Tampa indie film scene, will do its part to help take out the trash. We look forward to the day when professional filmmakers band together to form the first Tampa film community, and when it happens, our Tampa Film Community site will be there to support it. Until then, we'll use the site to address the issues in the Tampa indie film scene which undermine progress and the formation of that film community.

WELCOME TO TAMPA BAY FILM, THE VOICE OF TAMPA INDIE FILM

Welcome to the Tampa Bay Film site, a free resource site for filmmakers and the upcoming Tampa film community. Tampa Bay Film is the voice of Tampa indie film, and we are heard, and listened to, as the authority on Tampa indie film. This web site includes an extensive online film festival which is open all the time and is available to everyone free of charge. You can now view independent films from Tampa Bay and Florida from your computer and without spending a lot of time searching for them online. We are also planning film festival events in the Tampa Bay area. These advanced film festivals will be planned, staffed, and executed by film festival partner Eventi Stage!
While on the subject of our film festival endeavors, we will be covering other film festivals, reviewing them, and will publish tutorials and articles which will help to inspire film festival organizers in creating film festivals which are more effective.
While film festivals are about half of what this site is about, there is more. We also cover the marketing, promotion, and sales of independent film. This site is a resource for production professionals and talent who are involved with the indie film community here in Tampa Bay, and we have links to career tools, talent and professional contacts, investors, auditions, and industry jobs. We will even dare to ask the questions that need to be asked, and offer solutions to professional and ethical issues that may or may not be apparent.
It is our hope that we can help make the Tampa Bay film scene stronger and more marketable by helping each individual professional and organization who is involved in it.
Welcome to the new standard of indie film resources here in Tampa Bay and the driving force behind the future of independent film in the Tampa Bay market. We are your new best friend.

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TAMPA BAY FILM UPDATES AND NEWS - News and updates for Tampa Bay Film and the Tampa Bay Film site network.

ABOUT TAMPA BAY FILM - The Tampa Bay Film story, our history, expansion into the the top Tampa indie film resource, staff, mission statement, disclaimer, and terms of use. That history section is going to open some eyes, for sure. It's controversial, and also so true!

TAMPA BAY FILM FEATURES - Articles, tutorials, interviews, and more for anyone involved in Tampa indie film.

TAMPA FILM JOBS - Film industry jobs for production professionals and casting notices for talent auditions.

TAMPA FILM SCAMS - Our Tampa Bay Film indie film scam definition database is in the works and should be online shortly, along with scam-fighting tools geared for indie film makers and some educational resources for the Tampa Bay indie film community. We will help cut through the politics, the rumors, and the shady motives.

TAMPA SERVICES - Photography, event planning, web site design, design, production support, advertising, and other services are available.

INDIE FILM RESOURCES - Career tools, web site links, and production professional contacts.

CONTACT TAMPA BAY FILM - Contact information for Tampa Bay Film and our monthly Tampa Bay Film Mail Bag by Tampa filmmaker Alex Cain (Alex Cain is a pseudonym for a Tampa filmmaker).

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This Tampa indie film resource web site is dedicated to Tampa filmmaker Chris Woods, who is, in our opinion, the most talented and skilled Tampa filmmaker. His short indie film, Spaventare, filmed in Tampa Bay in early 2009, is a new benchmark for Tampa filmmaking; expect a lot of Tampa indie films in the future to follow the example set by this groundbreaking film. Not only is Spaventare, in our opinion, the best short Tampa indie film ever made, it proves that great films can be made on small budgets. Spaventare was done for less than $30.00, with a crew of three and a cast of two. Check it out on our online film festival by clicking on the link in this paragraph!

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