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TAMPA ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCHED! - 10/11/08 - As you can see, the staff here at Tampa Bay Film has been a bit busy the past week. Yesterday, it finally happened. Our new second-generation online film festival launched as a stand-alone web site, and our first-generation online film festival built into the Tampa Bay Film site directories was finally retired and will now be maintained as an archive (we don't want to give the search engines any bad links, you see, so those old files have to stay up). Menu links and online film festival links on the Tampa Bay Film, the Tampa Film Showcase, and the Tampa Film Blog sites were redirected to the new Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival site, instantly giving the new site the flood of Internet traffic that we all enjoy. This new online film festival should be far more successful than the old one, which was a hit and has dominated the Tampa film festival market, both online and event-based, for over a year now. In the wait between now and the launch of the Tampa film Showcase Tampa film festival and professional networking event series, we are expecting the new second-generation online film festival to exceed the success of the first one, and our online film festival is on track to competing with the Tampa film festival events. Being able to compete with event-based Tampa film festivals with an online film festival and no current film festival event of our own is impressive, and it will really get interesting when our Tampa film festival event series, the Tampa Film Showcase, finally debuts. Som how does all this tie together? We can't say yet, as it is a secret, but we can say that we are working hard and that we are taking our time setting up the foundation and support infrastructure for what is to come.
It's about time, too, because a lot of us are tired with the substandard, sleazy practices we've had to endure in the Tampa indie film scene. We cannot wait for the day that there will be a professional Tampa indie film community, and it is one of our goals to help establish and build one. We are investing a lot of time, money, and resources into this.
Five years from now, things will be different. Things will be better. Tampa filmmakers will be respected for the films that they make instead of being used as pawns in the schemes of others to attract their competition to Tampa Bay so it can be used as a production location instead of supporting the efforts of local filmmakers. The Tampa indie film workshops where aspiring filmmakers learn the bad habits of failed filmmakers will take a back seat, too.
You probably noticed that the Tampa Bay Film web site obtained an overhaul today, too. This was needed to correct some old design flaws and to enable Tampa Bay Film to keep up with and blend in with the high design standards of our new second-generation online film festival site. We're looking good, although our new picture / image templates are a bit over-designed. We will have that corrected sometime tonight, so don't get used to the new picture format that you now see.
Expect an overhaul of the Tampa Film Showcase site shortly, too, although we're not in too much of a hurry to do that right now. The film festival still does not have a venue, and the web site won't need to be updated much until the Tampa film festival events. We're sure that aspiring competitors are studying the site to learn as many of our ideas as they can right now, too. Good luck. The main M.O. and our great ideas are not up there yet. Wouldn't we be shooting ourselves in the feet if we published some of the revolutionary ideas before we were in the position to utilize them and work with them ourselves?
No fluff here. No smoke. What we are sitting on is a true revolution, and what we are working on with change everything. Not only will we revolutionize the Tampa indie film market, but the ideas that we introduce and work with will change the way indie films are done and worked everywhere else in the world, too.
For now, our foundation settles and our support infrastructure grows. A revolution is coming. Indie film will never be the same again.

TAMPA ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL - 09/27/08 - Excelsior! Design work on our new Tampa Online Film Festival is complete, and work is coming along nicely. We finally got to see the actual site on our studio workstation this morning, and it is even better than we expected. A Raptor 3 class site like this one, the design is much better and the site format is much more refined. Expect a major makeover of Tampa Bay Film soon after the launch of our Tampa Online Film Festival so we can keep up with our better-looking offspring (Yes, this is what Tampa Bay Film should have looked like back when we launched- the new site makes ours look old and outdated by comparison, and highlights our design flaws, as you will soon see). Since we haven't added any films to the old online film festival on Tampa Bay Film this year, we have quite a long list of indie films to add to the new one. The site should be running in a Beta version by tomorrow (although it won't be online yet), and should launch on October 1, 2008, with at least twenty films online and over one hundred indie films playing online 24/7 by the end of the year. Our first online film festival, which is here on the Tampa Bay Film site and launched with it on January 11, 2007, was incredibly successful, putting a competing online film festival out of business and giving Tampa film festivals a run for their money. Our new Tampa Online Film Festival will be a stand-alone web site interconnected with Tampa Bay Film. It is our second generation online film festival with the latest technology, and incorporating the refined ideas of what we learned from operating the first one. Speaking of the first one, it will be maintained as an archive on Tampa Bay film, as we have too much search engine traffic going to it and need to keep the old directories active. By default, all online film festival links in the old online film festival and throughout Tampa Bay Film will route to the new site, and visitors will be able to toggle between Tampa Bay Film and our new Tampa Online Film Festival site with the click of a button (since we have to do a full code refresh to update the menu, we might as well overhaul the design of our entire site at the same time, as it won't take long to do). In 2009, the new Tampa Bay Film Tampa Online Film Festival will be important for reasons that we cannot yet disclose, and we expect it to become the most effective online film festival in Florida, outdoing most film festival events. Everything is proceeding as we have planned and envisioned.

TAMPA FILM BLOG - Our Tampa Film Blog is the most popular indie film related blog in the Tampa Bay Market, and Tampa Bay Film site director C. A. Passinault tells it how it really is. The most recent posts address the Tampa indie film clique masquerading as a Tampa film community, amateur filmmakers stealing from Tampa indie film professionals, unprofessional and unethical practices in the Tampa indie film scene, crazed fan bloggers who support hate and discrimination, Tampa film networking events which are actually attempts to sell Tampa indie film workshops, low-rent, over-hyped Tampa film festivals, Tampa film festivals set up to market Tampa as a film production location at the expense of Tampa filmmakers, and more! If you don't like it, then you must be doing something wrong....

THE TAMPA FILM REVIEW - We love the Tampa Film Review! Really, we do! Don't take our word for it, though, you need to check it out for yourself. It's going on tonight in lovely Ybor city, so you really must go if you have nothing else going on. Let us know what you think about the Tampa Film Review, too. Since they moved, we may have to do another review of this exciting monthly film festival! We'd be there, but we are stuck in the studio working on our upgraded, stand-alone Tampa Online Film Festival web site. The new site will be interconnected with Tampa Bay Film once it debuts!

TAMPA ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL - It's time. Tampa Bay Modeling has been doing a lot of work lately and has been distracting our web team from working on our site. They are updated, with most updates now emphasizing the modeling job and talent audition job boards of Tampa Bay Modeling, Tampa Bay Acting, Tampa Bay Photographers, Florida Modeling Career, Independent Modeling, Independent Acting, and the Independent Talent Network. Tomorrow, August 6, we will be working on our brand new Tampa Online Film Festival, which will be a stand-alone web site interconnected with Tampa Bay film, and will replace our current on-site online film festival (the main reason that we have not added any new films in a while- but we have quite a list ready to be uploaded). Ah, yes, and our Tampa Film Scam database should be up, soon, too, along with new content ( the Tampa Film Showcase is still in the works, too). By the way, is anyone laughing at the Tampa film cafe web site, which seems to be a feeble attempt to compete with us? We have found it to be quite amusing, and see it as the Tampa Indie Film Cliques latest attempt to counter the official voice of Tampa indie film- please note that we are going to be very careful about posting ideas on our sites from now on, as these ideas tend to find their way to others under questionable circumstances. Were we up to the challenge? We were, and still are! We wish these aspiring-competitors luck!

In a few short months, everything will become clear, and they will know that it is time, once again, to retreat and return to the drawing boards!

TAMPA BAY FILM - Our Tampa indie film scam analysis database will be reformatted following the launch of the enhanced modeling scam analysis database on the upcoming Florida Modeling Career web site (a Florida-regional version of sister site Tampa Bay Modeling; Tampa Bay Modeling has seen a lot of media coverage lately with television news stories on the web site and their models showing up on television programs). We would also like to take the time now to clarify some details of association which may come up. Tampa Bay Film is not associated in any way with, nor do we support, Paul Guzzo, Pete Guzzo, Daniel Brienza, the so-called "Film Crew Cafe" web site, the Weekend Film crew, The Tampa Film Review, the "Tampa Bay Film Industry And Actors Network" (mistakenly called the "Tampa Bay Film And Actors Network" by one of Paul Guzzo's Tampa indie film letters, which prompted this clarification), or the Tampa Weekend Film School. There was also a Tampa film commission sponsored Tampa Bay Film Forum held in Tampa last year that we had nothing to do with at all, and we didn't even know who the participants were. We request, as a professional courtesy, that these people add disclaimers whenever they use the terms Tampa Bay Film or the word showcase when it is used to describe any Tampa film festival, as it may confuse people as well as infringe upon our properties. While we recognize potential conflicts, we do not recognize any of these people or their projects as a part of the Tampa indie film community, and this is one reason that we do not support them in any way. If it is their intention to copy what we do and use some of our marketing terms, then this is going to stop now; we strongly suggest that they use other terms and titles to describe what they do. Tampa Bay Film owns and operates the Tampa Film Showcase, which is the only monthly Tampa film festival that we endorse. The Tampa Film Showcase will be the best place for production professionals and talent to network with each other, too.

TAMPA ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL - 06/28/08 - The Eos MediaArts Tampa advertising agency web team is finalizing details now (as well as working on their own official web site). At the moment, a lot of work is being done on Florida Modeling Career. Once launched in a few days, they will move on to our new online film festival, which should be online in July 2008. The new online film festival will improve upon the format already pioneered on Tampa Bay Film, and will clean up some features in the interface.

ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL Almost ready as Tampa Bay Film spins off a new web site - 06/19/08 - The Tampa Online Film Festival web site, which used to be the Online Film Festival embedded in Tampa Bay Film, is going to be a stand-alone online film festival web site. The Tampa Online Film Festival will utilize new state-of-the-art technology, and will improve upon our successful online film festival in every way. Both Tampa Bay Film and Tampa Online Film Festival will be densely interconnected in ways that will enhance the performance of both. Both sites will utilize the Tampa Film Blog, as well.

ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL - 05/08/08 - Details are just coming in regarding what our higher-ups have in plan for the future of the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival, which will be officially called the Tampa Online Film Festival once a new web site launches. The Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival, which debuted with the Tampa Bay Film site in January 2007, has been more successful than we could have ever imagined. Last year, our online film festival easily competed with and eliminated another online film festival, and its popularity and effectiveness is unmatched. What's coming up? The plan is to upgrade our online film festival and make it into a stand-alone web site which is interconnected with Tampa Bay Film. The new web site would look similar to our site, and would eventually be user-updated. They are working on databasing components where site visitors can fill out a form and add / update their films to our online film festival. The online film festival content would be generated with the database, and most of the features would become automated. We use the term "eventually" because the first version of the stand-alone site would be updated the way that it is now. The new online film festival format is needed to support some other big projects, too. Stay tuned.

TAMPA FILM SHOWCASE - Our upcoming monthly film festival and professional networking event, now scheduled to debut soon. The Tampa Film Showcase will work with Tampa Bay Film to set the standard in the Tampa indie film market as well as support a professional Tampa indie film community. While we do not have a venue or a schedule as of now, we can confirm that this Tampa film festival series is a sure thing, and it is our top priority. It's definitely coming.

TAMPA INDIE FILM SCENE - Check out our recent features about the infamous Tampa Indie Film Clique, which masquerades as a Tampa indie film community. See the unauthorized review of the flawed Tampa Film Review! Need to read more? Read the Tampa Film Blog, the Tampa Photographer Blog, the Tampa Photography Blog, and the C. A. Passinault Blog!

TAMPA BAY FILM WEB SITE DIRECTORY

INDIE FILMS - Our online film festival is always open! This festival is free to view or to submit films to, and while it focuses on indie films in Tampa Bay and elsewhere in Florida, we also feature independent films anywhere in the world!
OPINION - An opinion posting section for editorial content for production professionals in the Tampa Bay Indie Film market.
FILM FESTIVALS - Professional film festivals in Tampa Bay and Florida with links to relevant supporting content, reviews, opinions, and the film festivals sites.
JOBS - Film industry jobs for production professionals and casting notices for talent auditions.
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.
TALENT - Actors, models, dancers, stunt people, and professional talent contacts on the TALON Talent ONline Database.
FEATURES - Articles, reviews, tutorials, and business information related to indie film, investors, marketing, promotion, sales, and distribution.
RESOURCES - Career tools, web site links, and production professional contacts on the TALON TALent ONline database.
CONTACT - Contact information for Tampa Bay Film. Contact us to post opinions and add or remove information, content, and the films in our online film festival.

Welcome to the Tampa Bay Film site, a free resource site for the Tampa film community where we are covering indie film in Tampa Bay! 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. Our continuous online film festival doesn’t stop here, however, and continues on our ally site Independent Performer with a national online film festival. Both festivals will link to each other, and we are planning film festival events in the Tampa Bay area which tie in with the online versions. These advanced film festivals will be planned, staffed, and executed by film festival partner Eventi Events!
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 indy 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 community stronger and more marketable by helping each individual professional and organization who is involved in it.
Welcome to the new standard of indy 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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