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TAMPA FILM SCAMS Tampa
Bay Film Scam Analysis Database TAMPA FILM SCAM SCENARIOS - TAMPA FILM SCAM ALERTS - TAMPA FILM SCAMS PUBLIC RECORDS SEARCH - TAMPA FILM SCAM TIPS - REPORT A TAMPA FILM SCAM Tampa Film Scam Threat Index 80% : The professional integrity of the Tampa indie film scene is LOW. At this time, you have a high risk of being scammed in the Tampa indie film scene. You have an 80% chance of encountering an unprofessional, or unethical, Tampa filmmaker or party in the Tampa indie film scene who does not have your best interests in mind, and who will scam you! Use extreme caution! State Of The Tampa Indie Film Scene 01/31/09 - Currently, there is no professional Tampa indie film community in the Tampa indie film scene. The main Tampa indie film clique has lost dominance, and many of the unprofessional operations have ended, due in large part to the successful interference by Tampa Bay Film. There are very few professional Tampa filmmakers in the Tampa indie film scene, and most of the filmmakers are insecure amateurs who form cliques, and who cannot tolerate criticism. Currently, many of the Tampa filmmakers cannot be trusted, as they will slander perceived competition, in an attempt to undermine their credibility, and steal whatever they can from them. Tampa Bay Film recommends that you get to know who you are dealing with before you work with them, and that you check references who are unrelated to the filmmaker (i.e. References who are not close to, or who are not affiliated with, them). Use caution with everyone in the Tampa indie film scene, and use our Tampa Indie Film Risk Analysis system to aid you in determining if they are legitimate professionals before you consider working with them, or collaborating with them. Remember: It is much easier to steal from someone or to undermine their professional credibility if you work closely with them, and you are who you associate with. Tampa Bay Film, at this time, cannot recommend any organized Tampa film networking efforts, as the ones that we see are set up to exploit their members and to sell them services that they do not need under the guise of "networking". Welcome to the 2009 Tampa Bay
Film Tampa Film Scam Analysis Database. It is our sincere hope that you
will study 1. A Tampa Film Scam Scenario Front-End Menu 2. Tampa Film Scam Alerts 3. Tampa Film Scam Term Menu All content on the Tampa Film
Scam Database is cross-linked contextually to relevant feature content
on Tampa Bay Film and our ally resource web sites, as well as all of our
Tampa film job boards, Tampa talent audition boards, and other resources. The Tampa Bay Film
Tampa Film Scam Analysis Database is a brand new film scam-fighting resource
using the latest scam-fighting technology. While this is the first scam
definition database and scam-fighting resource for Tampa Bay Film, it
is actually a 2009 second-generation scam database resource based on the
new technology developed for the new Florida Modeling Career modeling
resource web site. This is an all-new tool for filmmakers and indie film
professionals, and it is far more advanced that the older 2003-era scam
databases in use on Tampa Bay Modeling and Independent Modeling. Eventually,
these sites will be retrofitted with the new second-generation scam analysis
databases and tool sets, but for now, we have the first. This is the first
of many which are coming. These second-generation scam analysis databases
are scheduled to be added to Tampa Bay Acting (which will be working closely
with Tampa Bay Film in our war against Tampa indie film scams), Tampa
Bay Modeling, Independent Modeling, Independent Acting, Independent Talent
Network, Advanced Model, and the original Florida Modeling Career, which,
as of January 25, 2009, is the most advanced of the modeling resource
sites, and the newest. Tampa Talent Scams, a resource sites focusing on
combating Tampa talent and entertainment industry scams, is an enhanced,
expanded version of the second generation scam analysis database, and
will pioneer the upcoming third generation, as well as new, and experimental,
scam-fighting tactics. Tampa Film Scam Scenario Menu Welcome to the Tampa Bay Film
Tampa Film Scam main menu. This is a scenario based menu where you match
a scenario, or question, close to your own so we can assist you with identifying
the Tampa film scam which you have observed or encountered. Our Tampa
Film Scam Analysis Database shows the activity patterns, or behavioral
patterns, of scams, since you are what you do, and it is very difficult
to later the patterns exposed here to cloak the scam. 1. A free Tampa film networking group contacted you and wants you to join. 2. You are an aspiring Tampa filmmaker, and you want to learn how to make films. Should you invest in a Tampa film workshop instead of a school? 3. You are an aspiring filmmaker who wants to learn how to make films. You've done the workshops and didn't get anything from them but a lighter wallet. You now want to go to film school! 4. You are an experienced Tampa filmmaker looking for other filmmakers to network and collaborate with on Tampa indie film projects. You attend a film networking group meeting, and are pitched a film production workshop which you don't really need. 5. You collaborate with a group of Tampa filmmakers. You do a good job on a film project and don't do anything wrong. Soon afterwards, you hear rumors being spread about you by some of the filmmakers which are slanderous and are meant to undermine your credibility. 6. When you stand up to a filmmaker who is spreading rumors about you to others, you're portrayed as someone making insane allegations. Although you have proof of what they are doing, they deny it and claim that you are imagining it. 7. You work on a Tampa film with other filmmakers and some of your ideas are used. They claim all of the credit for your ideas, and you get a minor screen credit for something else, if at all. 8. You submit your film to a Tampa film festival which requires a submission fee. You pay the money, and don't get so much as a rejection letter back. 9. You submit your film to a Tampa film festival, and you have to pay a submission fee. They don't select your film for their festival, although several others do play your film, and it receives several awards from some prestigious film festivals. 10. You are an actor, and you are invited to audition at a casting for a Tampa indie film project. You audition, but at the audition the filmmakers try to sell you services. You don't get a part, but learn that other actors are out a lot of money because they paid for services to be considered for a role in the film. 11. You are an actress who auditions for a role in a Tampa indie film. After the audition, the director contacts you and sets up a private meeting with you. You meet with him (or worse, her), and he (she) offers you a role, but first he'd like to hang out with you over drinks to decide the best role for you. They ask you to meet them at their place. 12. You debate with a Tampa filmmaker over a Tampa film issue, and they don't stick to the topic, since you are winning the debate. The filmmaker throws a slanderous rumor in your face about you in an attempt to undermine your credibility so that other filmmakers won't listen to what you have to say. 13. A Tampa filmmaker accuses you of a crime or tries to portray you as mentally unbalanced. You are a law-abiding citizen with no criminal record and lots of professional references. 14. A Tampa film festival has a competition for indie films. You pay a fee and enter one of your short films. Although your film is better than most of the other films, you don't win. Later, you find out the winning film was by a filmmaker who is friends with the film festival's organizers. 15. You work with a group of Tampa filmmakers who describe themselves as being the Tampa indie film community. You have a disagreement with one of the filmmakers, and the rest gang up on you for no reason. 16. A group of filmmakers work together in a Tampa film association. Although some of the filmmakers have bad reputations, the others give them credibility. You wonder if you should work with them. 17. You are a Tampa actor or a model. You go to an offer for film auditions or modeling jobs, and are instead sold some overpriced photography or headshot services. You never find out if there were really any jobs. 18. A Tampa filmmaker makes some claims of working on well-known films. This enhances their credibility, and they benefit from it. Later, it is found that the filmmaker isn't as good as they were supposed to be, and that the claims that they made were false. 19. You work on a Tampa film, and regret it after your ideas are stolen, and promises made to you are broken. 20. You refer an actress to a Tampa film who is cast in a leading role. The filmmakers claim discovery of the actress, and no one knows that the acting referral came from you until the actress sets the record straight. Oh, and after you refer other actresses to other films. 21. You decide to invest in a Tampa film project as a producer. You do not get appropriate credit for your involvement, and the filmmakers cheat you out of your return on your investment. You're out a lot of money, with little to show for it. 22. You're an actress who has been cast in a leading role in a Tampa indie film. The director insists that you appear on screen nude or in a degrading context. There is no pay for working on the film, and the screenplay is awful. You don't see the film doing well, if it sells at all. 23. You are a filmmaker who is well-respected, with a great reputation. Another Tampa filmmaker is angry with you because you criticized him, and Photoshops your head onto a naked body, emailing it to a lot of people. The headshot that they used of you was from when you were under aged, which means that they created child porn with your picture........ 24. A Tampa filmmaker shows up drunk at a film festival and states to several people that they want to assault you to the point where you are dead. The filmmaker, after making death threats, then tries to convince everyone that you are a psycho. You have done nothing wrong, although you have disagreed with them in the past. You also have a great professional reputation, lots of references, and a lot more credibility than they do. 25. A Tampa filmmaker emails you and threatens to assault you in the email. You have done nothing wrong, and have not done anything to them. 26. A Tampa filmmaker
pretends to be your friend to your face. You later find out that the filmmaker
was causing you a lot of trouble behind your back. 28. A Tampa newspaper article misrepresents a story about Tampa indie film. It is obvious that the reporter either did not do their homework, was lazy writing the article, or had decided to write a propaganda piece which in no way was objective. Most of the people who they interview in support of the subject are directly associated with it, tainting the objectivity and the tone of the article. This misleads the readers of the newspaper. 29. Some Tampa filmmakers collaborate with a much more successful filmmaker. This enhances their credibility, and they are able to get the backing for some of their projects because of their association with the filmmaker. Once they get to the point where they feel that they have made it, they cut ties with the filmmaker who they used, badmouth the filmmaker, and compete against them using what they learned from them. Tampa Film Scam Analysis Database Tampa Film Networking Allegedly
A Pitch To Sell Workshops For more, check out Tampa film networking scams, Tampa film workshop scams, Tampa film job scams, and Tampa film school scams. Tampa Bay Film 01. Tampa Film Networking Scams
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