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TAMPA
BAY FILM UPDATES
Site
Updates and Indie Film News
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FILM BLOG
TAMPA BAY FILM
- 04/28/11 - Added
more content to the new filmmakers section (which was added in a site
code upgrade on 04/20/11) and the new production company section. Initial
Operational Capability (IOC) achieved. Currently working on support content
to be published on Tampa Bay Film and other Tampa Bay Film sites for these
sections, such as reviews on Tampa Film Review and films on the Tampa
Bay Film Online Film Festival. Speaking of which........
TAMPA ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL
-
04/28/11 - The
Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival has been upgraded with new features
to discourage filmmakers from pulling films without notification, which
makes maintaining the integrity of our playlist a challenge. Two new channels
were added, too. A Graveyard channel was added to list dead films and
films which no longer play, with the purpose of insuring that the listed
films will still maintain their search results placement and position
without plaguing the regular channels with films which don’t work
(In most cases, and this can be verified, online searches for specific
films which have been on the online film festival for at least a month
come back with the film on our online film festival as the #1 result.
The Graveyard maintains these results. If the film cannot be played, it
does not benefit the filmmaker; it is hoped that the filmmaker will make
sure that their film is playable after seeing that the #1 result for searches
of their film does not play). The other one is an indie film Dumpster
channel, which is the opposite of our Showcase channel, and is where the
worst-rated films can be found. The Dumpster is especially important now
as we will soon be interlinking films playing on the online film festival
with the reviews of the film on the Tampa Film Review Tampa Bay Film site
(If we write a review on a film, we want to make sure that the referenced
film is available on the online film festival, whether it plays or not.
Some insecure filmmakers cannot take criticism, and will pull their films
after a bad review, hoping that we will remove their film and the review.
This will not work, and we can now leave up reviews and the page for their
film on the online film festival as long as we wish to).
Additionally, a new featured film thumbnail array was installed, which
makes swapping out films easy, no longer requiring the entire site to
be refreshed. This ensures featured programming flexibility, as well as
the ability to move films which no longer play from the thumbnail array
to the indie film Graveyard channel.
In its current second generation incarnation, the online film festival
is now cleared to exceed a playlist of 100 films to 250, or more, since
the new upgrade makes the films playing on the online film festival much
more stable.
TAMPA FILM BLOG
- 04/28/11 - New
content was added to the current April 5, 2001, Tampa Film Blog post on
the main page, as well as adjustments to content in the archives. Check
it out for more.
TAMPA BAY FILM
- 03/16/11 - Although
Tampa Bay Film and the Tampa Bay Film sites are going on standby until
the summer, there are a lot of loose ends which remain to be tied up before
the sites can be put on standby (and it’s been this way for over
a month, now). This includes half-finished work on Tampa Bay Modeling,
a few film reviews to be published on the Tampa Film Review Tampa Bay
Film site, and a couple of Tampa Film Blog posts. This will all be done
in the next 48 hours, at which time the sites will be placed on standby,
although we will be spending a day updating both Tampa Bay Film (we have
to add our new filmmakers section, after all, and update the menu system!),
and the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival (have to clean up the playlist,
obtain an official count of films, restructure the thumbnail array so
that films can be removed and added without refreshing the entire web
site, add some more films, and then add at least a dozen films a month
to get the playlist up to 250 films or so) sometime in late March 2011
or April.
16 Aurora PhotoArts Tampa Photography and Design marketing and support
web sites are now in development, and they all need to be up and fully
operational by this summer; we are expecting the first five by late next
week. The work on these sites will take up most of our web team’s
time, with just enough time left over for minor maintenance on the other
sites.
In the fall of 2011, all of the Tampa Bay Film sites will receive an overhaul,
and they all will begin to receive normal updates (there is talk about
raising the limit of films on the current version of the online film festival
and capping the films available to as much as 1,000. The new user-maintenance
version of the online film festival, the next generation, will be online
sometime in 2012 as the latest. This is only a thought for now, however,
as whatever films are in the playlist would have to be phased out with
the new version, and we don’t want too many films online at that
time) . With regular updates to all of the Tampa Bay Film sites resuming
in the fall of 2011, we will be at where we need to be online when the
first Tampa Bay Film film festivals and Tampa indie film events begin
their rollout in the fall of 2012. All of the Tampa Bay Film film festivals
and indie film events will be completely rolled out, and regularly produced,
by spring 2014, if our current schedule pans out.
Web site-wise, our current web site schedule is as follows:
Array of 16 Aurora PhotoArts marketing and support sites - 03/11 to 07/11
Independent Modeling and modeling resource sites - 07/11 to 09/11
Independent Acting and acting resource sites - 09/11 to 10/11
Independent Talent Resource and Tampa Bay Talent - 10/11
Tampa Bay Film sites - 11/11
Tampa Bay Photographers and Tampa Bay Dancer - 12/11 to 01/12
Eventi Events and Eventi Stage sites - 02/12 to 05/12
Dream Nine Studios site - 06/12 to 07/12
Passinault.Com site 08/12
Please note that
this covers major web site work (the order and plan can change at any
time, without warning or announcement). Also note that both Tampa Bay
Acting and Tampa Bay Talent will support our Tampa indie film agenda;
specifically, they will both assist actors and talent with evaluating
Tampa filmmakers and indie film projects, and in weighing out which ones
are worth getting involved with. This means that, by 2012, some Tampa
filmmakers are going to have a difficult time finding actors and talent
to help them with their film, while the best ones will be able to easily
find them.
All of the Tampa Bay Film sites will be updated a lot, regularly, by starting
in late 2012.
TAMPA FILM BLOG
- 03/16/11 - Updated
the Tampa Film Blog by adding a new post for 03/09 (it was in editing
hell, and we just now finished it), as well as adding a new post about
the latest Chris Woods film, White Lie.
TAMPA FILM BLOG
- 03/05/11 - Tampa
Bay Film and the Tampa Bay Film sites have been put on hold until Summer
2011. The latest post on the Tampa Film Blog explains why, and what is
in store for the future of Tampa Bay Film. Is it over? Are we giving up?
Read it , and find out. This could just be the silence before the storm
of revolution in Tampa indie film. We might just have a plan, and a pretty
incredible one, at that.
TAMPA FILM BLOG
- 01/04/11 - Finished
updating the Tampa Film Blog yesterday. Still making adjustments. With
all of the content now organized and optimized for SEO, the massive amount
of content available will now give all of the Tampa Bay Film sites an
unbeatable advantage. We now have to organize this update section, and
the online film festival blog. Because the Tampa Film Blog is the largest
indie film blog in the United States, already has a lot of content, and
the other Tampa Bay Film sites need new content, new blog posts will be
limited for a while, with most of those referencing content additions
to other Tampa Bay Film sites.
TAMPA FILM BLOG
- 01/02/11 - Finishing
months of work organizing content on, and upgrading, the Tampa Film Blog.
Updates and blog posts are now free to resume. Expect much more content
to be added to the Tampa Bay Film sites in the coming weeks, particularly
the Tampa Film Review site and Tampa Bay Film itself. We have a ton of
indie film, filmmaker, and film festival reviews to be added to the Tampa
Film Review site. Tampa Bay Film itself will add a Tampa indie film historical
database going back to 2000, filmmaker investment and talent references,
and a brand new Tampa indie film evaluation and scam analysis database
for 2011!
TAMPA BAY FILM
- 12/31/10 - We
are finishing organizing the 300 pages of content on the Tampa Film Blog,
as well as adding support sections, such as subject-based navigation and
topic pages, to aid navigation and search engine indexing of the library
of information already online. The Tampa Film Blog is the largest independent
film blog in America, and its content is so vast that no indie film site
in the Tampa indie film market can compete; updates and new content posts
to the Tampa Film Blog will resume once the content is organized. Once
the content is organized and properly optimized for search engine indexing,
the Tampa Film Blog will supercharge search engine performance and visibility
for all of the Tampa Bay Film sites in our network interconnected with
it. On the subject of interconnectivity, we will be adding text link menus
for all of the Tampa Bay Film sites to all of the Tampa Bay Film sites
during their 2011 site code refreshes in the coming days. We are also
adding three more sites to the Tampa Bay Film site network in early 2011,
raising the number of sites in our network from 8 to 11. We are also looking
to add a 12th Tampa Bay Film site to the network sometime in 2011; all
of this will secure our search engine superiority and dominant online
presence to support what is coming. While 2010 was a "standby"
year for the Tampa Bay Film sites, 2011 will be busy as work moves forward
to prepare for our agenda.
TAMPA BAY FILM
- 12/30/10 - It
was announced today that a brand new class of web site would be deployed
for Tampa Bay Film film festival sites, with the exception of the Tampa
Film Showcase and the online film festival; the latter two continuing
to use primary interconnected Super Raptor sites. The new web
site class, optimized for film festival properties, and fully compatible
with the Tampa Bay Film Super Raptor sites, will be called the
Marquee Class, and the design class will be
an advanced 3rd Generation web site, created with the full capability
to be upgraded to a 4th Generation site. In other news, a lot of additional
content is being prepared for Tampa Bay Film and the Tampa Bay Film site
array, although that content will not be added until the Tampa Film Blog
is organized and brought up to spec. The Tampa Film Blog, which has been
on standby for months, will be back online this weekend; this post would
have been posted there had the film blog not been clogged with content.
Regarding the content to be added to the Tampa Bay Film site, expect a
series of articles on Tampa Bay Film, including a behind the scenes expose
on the making of The Quiet Place, and article
on the Tampa indie film Brainjacked, and some
new features. Upcoming reviews, to be referenced from Tampa Bay Film and
published on the Tampa Film Review Tampa Bay Film site, include 100
Tears, A Grave Matter, Milk Crate Scars, 99, Spaventare, To Live Is To
Die, The Pledge, Actress Apocalypse, Experiment 7, Bleed, The Web Of Darkness,
and Unearthed. These reviews will
be a part of the January 2011 issue of Frontier Pop, and content on the
Tampa Film Review site will link back to the issue of Frontier Pop.
TAMPA BAY FILM
- 12/29/10 - We
are updating content throughout Tampa Bay Film for 2011, which includes
things such as meta tags on all of the Tampa Bay Film sites and full code
refreshes on the server. A lot of content will be added to Tampa Bay Film
itself in 2011, as will also be the case for the other Tampa Bay Film
sites. A lot of work needs to be done. Sometime this week, we will also
finish editing and organizing the Tampa
Film Blog. Also, in January 2011, a TON of reviews, which
include new TFR reviews and indie film reviews, will be published on Tampa
Bay Film site Tampa Film
Review. These reviews will also tie into the January 2011
issue of Frontier Pop,
and will link back to that issue.
TAMPA FILM FESTIVALS
- 12/10/10 - As
of today, all film festival schedules for the Tampa Film Showcase monthly
film festival and professional networking event series, the Reverence
Film Festival, and the Frontier Film Festival are pending. With main production
company Eventi Stage in need of a non profit certificiation, the danger
of a double dip recession, and some urgent support projects needed, all
schedules are TBA. All film festivals will happen, eventually, and proceed
on-schedule after they debut, but for now, they are all on hold. Schedules
will not be announced from now on until the film festivals are about to
debut. In 2011, however, expect some underground film festivals and short
film projects to be completed.
TAMPA FILM BLOG
- 12/09/10 - We
just finished organizing over 300 pages of content on the Tampa Film Blog
(150 pages of web content, which are 300 if printed out in the standard
book format). That content was organized in over 30 seperate web pages
to the site index, with each page averaging 10 pages / 5 online pages
of content. Much of this work is transparent to the average web user,
and is being done "under the hood" of the blog (you can track
our progress by clicking on "blog
posts"). We have 200 pages of content left, and this should be
done by tomorrow (the total content now stands at over 250 pages of online
content, and there isn't a Tampa indie film site, including other blogs,
which come close to matching that kind of volume. It's massive!). Although
the Tampa Film Blog has always had a ton of content, it was not organized
well, limiting the ability of the search engines to crawl and index it;
less than 5% of the content has been indexed to date. One the content
is organized, the Tampa Film Blog will go to the top of search engine
results; by tomorrow, an additional 95% of the content will be easily
available for indexing, and it will be like adding over 220 pages of web
content to the blog. This will also serve to supercharge the Tampa Bay
Film sites in web searches. Additionally, all of the extra content being
made available will enable searchers to easily find lots of information
on whatever Tampa indie film topic that they are looking for. The_truth
will be known. Expect a new blog posts, and the resumption of posts, once
the organization of is complete. We will also be adding more content to
the support sections of the Tampa Film Blog. By spring 2011, the information
on that blog will literally be everywhere, as it will be the top search
engine result for anything Tampa indie film related. This mobilization
of our online resources is necessary for the rollout of our projects in
2012, and it looks like that we will, at least, have one film festival
next year, which will lead to the full rollout of the Tampa
Film Showcase monthly
film festival and professional networking event series in January
2013.
TAMPA FILM BLOG
- 12/08/10 - We
are organizing the rest of the content in the Tampa Film Blog. There are
hundreds of pages of content on the blog, and once organized, the Tampa
Film Blog will become the ultimate source of information on Tampa indie
film. Since it is interconnected with the Tampa Bay Film sites, by default,
this means that Tampa Bay Film will, rightfully, dominate search engine
results of Tampa indie film, and on specific topics of Tampa indie film.
TAMPA FILM REVIEW
- 12/08/10 - We
are now writing reviews for several Tampa indie films, which include 100
Tears, A Grave Matter, Milk Crate Scars, 99, Spaventare, To Live Is To
Die, The Pledge, Actress Apocalypse, Experiment 7, Bleed, The Web Of Darkness,
and Unearthed. We are also working
on reviews for the rest of The Tampa Film Reviews,
as well as the review for the Tampa Bay Online Film Festival
2010 (Which will not be as good as you might think, as 2010
had some issues).
TAMPA ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL
-
12/08/10 - We’re
in the process of updating the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival. We’re
adding a contextually organized featured film directory for the thumbnailed
feature films, which will give us flexibility in swapping out films without
having to refresh the entire online film festival. We are also adding
an indie film graveyard channel, and an indie film dumpster channel. This
upgrade should be online within a few days.
Revver, which was a hosting service for many of our indie films playing
on the online film festival, seems to be out of business. This means that
those films no longer work, and there are holes in our playlist. We will
be looking for alternative sources for those films to get them back online,
and if that doesn’t work, we will add them to our indie film graveyard
channel. The indie film graveyard channel is a holding place for indie
films which have been removed without warning, and will be linked to from
every part of the site in an effort to maintain search engine results
for the lost films. Hopefully, this effort will inspire the filmmakers
to restore the films to the online film festival.
Note, however, that we will be losing some films as a result of Revver
going down. We will be adding lots of new films in 2011, and should be
maintaining a playlist of around 100 films. When the 4th Generation online
film festival goes online in 2013, we will have unlimited films available.
At the moment, we are using the 2nd Generation Online Film Festival format
(there are plans for a revolutionary 5th Generation Online Film Festival,
a “Virtual Film Festival” based on the foundation established
by the 4th Generation format, in 2014 or 2015. This Virtual Film Festival
will bridge the gap between online film festivals and film festival events,
and will be the top online film festival in the world.
TAMPA BAY FILM
- 05/22/10 - Updated
(corrected) some data on Tampa Bay Film, and organized content on the
Tampa Film Blog. Nothing major, as other web site work is taking up much
of the web team's time right now. With at least another year before Tampa
Bay Film shifts into high gear, we have time to relax. Expected some new
reviews on our Tampa Film Review site, more films added to our online
film festival, some articles on Tampa Bay Film, and the Tampa Film Blog
to finish organizing in the next month or two. There WILL be updates on
the Tampa Bay Film sites throughout 2010; for now, we are just sitting
back and gazing proudly at the Tampa Bay Film sites. We've built something
great here, and it heralds an even greater future.
TAMPA
BAY FILM - 03/22/10
- Save
Tampa indie film! Keep Tampa indie film independent. With
many playing politics, discounting Tampa filmmakers, and working to sell
us out and to attract our competition (Hollywood) to the Tampa Bay area,
we need to open our eyes and see what is going on. Tampa filmmakers and
those who support independent film in the Tampa Bay area need to wake
up and see through the politics of those who work to sell us out. Tampa
indie film has a limited future is they succeed!
TAMPA BAY FILM
- 03/17/10 - New
orders are in; I'll post them here at the moment since the Tampa Film
Blog is tied up until next week for reasons that I'm not at liberty to
disclose at the moment (you'll understand when you see what goes up).
I've resumed updating all of the Tampa Bay Film sites, allocating 30%
of my web coding time to update the sites (the priority remains the modeling
resource sites). I'm working on a lot of reviews right now, and will also
have to work on updating content on the main Tampa Bay Film site, since
so much material had to be cannibalized when the site became eight interconnected
sites (search engine performance is improving, but we need total domination
by the end of the year to pave the way for my first film festival in 2011,
my first films, and the debut of the Tampa Film Showcase in 2012). The
indie film scam section and the jobs section are also a priority. The
TFR section over at Tampa Film Review needs to be completed, too. The
online film festival will also have new films added next week. Stay tuned.
TAMPA BAY FILM
- 02/27/10 - Since
we are currently using our new marketing material, we had to make sure
all of the information on our network of eight Tampa Bay Film sites was
current. Took some time to update information on all of the Tampa Bay
Film sites. May take some time to add more content to the sites, and films
to our online film festival, in March 2010. Currently, we are working
on the final TFR reviews, as well as a new review for our 2009 online
film festival. Much more content will be added to the main Tampa Bay Film
site, soon (to offset the content ripped away and used to form annex sites),
and we will be adding a lot on new films to our online film festival sometime
in March.
TAMPA FILM REVIEW
- 10/20/09 - A
large site content refresh and upgrade is imminent for Tampa Bay Film,
which will pave the way for several other Super Raptor Class
Tampa Bay Film sites to roll out. All the Tampa Bay Film sites should
be online, and in place, by late November 2009. They will be ready for
what is coming in 2010 and beyond.
All
of the reviews on this Tampa Bay Film site, which includes all of the
film festival reviews that we have, will be moved to Tampa Film Review,
a Tampa Bay Film site optimized for Tampa indie film reviews and coverage,
in the next few days. The existing reviews will be enhanced when they
are moved, with more content added. If you've already read them, you may
want to do it again after the move. Several new film festival reviews
are on the way, too, with the final two unauthorized reviews of The
Tampa Film Review about to be published. The two new reviews will
debut on the Tampa Film Review Tampa Bay Film site, which itself will
launch in days. The first review is the unauthorized review of
The Tampa Film Review 2009, which will cover the single TFR film
festival event which was held in January 2009. The 2009 TFR review will
be online this month. In November 2009, the final TFR review will be published.
This is a review of the entire five year run of The Tampa Film Review,
and will also serve as a guide to the film festival series for historical
reference. Both are expected to be controversial, and will be an unbiased,
objective assessment of The Tampa Film Review. In total, there
will be four unauthorized reviews of The Tampa Film Review, and
there is talk about expanding them to six, with the possibility of a review
of TFR 2004 and TFR 2005. Past Tampa film festivals, including the popular
Saints and Sinners film festivals, are also scheduled for official
reviews, as we want to publish a complete guide of as many film Tampa
festivals as we can reference.
TAMPA ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL
-
10/03/09 - The
Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival has been upgraded to a Super Raptor
Class web site, with twice the menu options. More films have been
added from the online film festival archives, and the featured film thumbnail
image array has been changed. The Tampa Bay Film web site, where you are
now, is the next Tampa Bay Film site due for a Super Raptor Class
web site upgrade. We will be going through the site content, will be adjusting
that, and will completely replace the picture thumbnail array above. Tampa
Bay Film will see many features added, such as a brand new second-generation
Tampa indie film scam analysis database developed by Independent Modeling.
Our scam analysis database, like the others on our affiliated sister talent
resource web sites, will all link into Tampa Talent Scams, as
well. Next up for Super Raptor Class site upgrades are the remaining
Tampa Bay Film sites, which include Tampa Film Showcase, Tampa Film Festivals,
Tampa Film Review, Tampa Film Conference, and Tampa Film Community.
TAMPA FILM BLOG
- 10/02/09 - The
Tampa Film Blog, the most popular and widely read blog, or online publication,
about Tampa indie film, has become a super blog. It has been expanded
to a full web site, and has been upgraded to a Super Raptor Class
web site. It is on track to becoming the premier indie film blog
in the country.
IT'S
A SECRET: It's
also about time! C. A. Passinault will be shooting his first short indie
film, friendship, in January, 2010. The film
will be shot in Riverview, Florida. The film will be produced with a small
cast and crew. The script, which will be a psychological drama, was written
by C. A. Passinault. Passinault will be directing, will be the director
of photography, will do photography for production stills, will do the
audio post-production and the foley, will arrange the music, and will
be the editor; putting his years of training and experience in each profession
to the test. The film will premier on the online film festival in early
2010! Passinault has indicated that he needs to put his filmmaking gear
through its paces before he tackles his much more ambitious Reverence
short film in early 2010. Other short films on the way include The
Point, based on his original story The
Point. Other planned films for 2010/ 2011 include a
secret survival drama, a dramatic short film titled She wants
to be a reporter, and Composure,
a modern romance film. Passinault also has at least two short comedy films
in the works, as well as Frontier View, an online
"television" series. Very much anticipated, and the first film
done in 2010, Reverence will be a horror film,
and will be the short film which will intentionally be released in black
and white. There are rumors that Reverence will
contain some extremely disturbing, and controversial, content. The Reverence
short film has little in common with Passinault's cancelled Reverence
feature film project of 2001-2003, although some elements
were inspired by the format of the feature project, such as the premise
of the first scene of the original screenplay (read the completed script
for the Reverence
feature film, although it will never be produced.
Also feel free to check out an excerpt of his Frontier
4 novel, and his Born
Beautiful
modeling fiction series for samples of his work as a writer).
Passinault has indicated that he is glad that two production teams flaked
out, and did not allow the original production to proceed, as it would
have likely failed to make much of an impact.
Passinault
will be doing poly-duty during the production of his indie film shorts.
He will be writing, directing, DP'ing, doing post-production audio, and
will be editing all of them. He will also be doing the still photography
for the films, and will be putting together behind-the-scenes "making
of" feature articles for each film, which will be published exclusively
here on Tampa Bay Film.

UNDERGROUND
TAMPA FILM FESTIVAL SERIES
You are not invited
The Tampa
Bay Film Review underground film festival series is coming in late 2009,
with at least one indie film viewing party. This underground film festival
series, held in secret Tampa locations, is invitation only, and not open
to the public.
Underground
film festivals are part of a protest against the misleading and pretentious
nature of conventional Tampa film festivals. They are a part of the uprising
of entertainment professionals in the Tampa indie film scene, a rebellion
against the self-serving agendas of a clique of con artists who are out
to sell out the Tampa indie film scene. These underground film festivals
will feed into a new generation of Tampa film festivals, film festivals
which actually support Tampa indie film. It is our objective to bring
professional standards to the Tampa indie film scene, and to lay a foundation
for the formation of the first professional Tampa indie film community.
The Tampa
Bay Film Review underground film festivals, as well as other underground
film festivals, will be reviewed and covered like other Tampa film festivals
here on Tampa Bay Film.
ADDED
08/16/09
UPDATES
TAMPA BAY FILM
- 07/25/09 - Tampa
Bay Film will be refreshing its entire web site index in September 2009,
as the update in June was delayed somewhat. Likewise for the Tampa Bay
Film Online Film Festival. Currently, we are resuming the additions of
indie films to our online film festival, and are making adjustments to
the site in preparation for a massive update in August. The remainder
of the archived films from the first generation online film festival,
around 45 of them, will be added in the next few days, and afterwards
those archives will be removed. The third generation of the Tampa Bay
Film Online Film Festival is in development, and is slated to launch by
the spring of 2010. Concurrently, the design of the fourth generation
online film festival is also in the works, and may lead to the launch
of another online film festival, as well as eventually be applied to the
Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival. This fourth generation online film
festival is one of the most advanced web sites ever designed, and will
be the most advanced online film festival in the world when it launches
in 2011.
The
Tampa Film Blog will see an upgrade, as will our Tampa Film Showcase site.
Three more Tampa indie film-relevant sites will be launched this fall,
bringing our site fleet count to 7.
We are
working on several projects here on Tampa Bay Film. We are working on
a 2009 review of The Tampa Film Review, which has finally ended. We are
also working on a review covering the entire five year run of The Tampa
Film Review. In related news, Tampa Bay Film is also developing several
different underground film festival properties. These new underground
film festivals, which will serve to help market and enhance our upcoming
Tampa film festival properties, will be tiny, private film festival film
viewing gatherings, which we will cover like a conventional film festival.
One of our main Tampa underground film festival properties, an ongoing
series, will be the Tampa Bay Film Review. The
Tampa Bay Film Review will debut this fall,
and every Tampa Bay Film Review underground
film festival event will be covered here on Tampa Bay Film. The Tampa
Bay Film Review will be a private event where several entertainment
industry professionals get together, relax, and review the short, and
feature-length indie films, that they watch. Some of the Tampa indie films
scheduled for review include Bleed, 99,
100 Tears, The Web Of Darkness,
Live Evil, The Pledge,
The Quiet Place, Bloody Mary,
Filthy, Actress Apocalypse,
Life Is A Circus, The End Is Blossoming,
Strip Club King, Spaventare,
Gunn Highway, Alarum,
To Live Is To Die, Brainjacked,
Experiment 7, and many more! Although the Tampa
Bay Film Review will be accepting indie film submissions
like a larger film festival, we will be obtaining films that we are interested
in reviewing, even if the filmmakers do not send them to us; we will watch
and review the films without their permission. Experiment
7 is one film that we do not expect a submission for, and
if we have to buy such films, we will be sure to purchase them
used from online stores such as Amazon so that the filmmakers
do not make any profit from our purchase. TIP:
If you ever want to see an indie film,
and don't wish to support the filmmakers when you buy the film, buy it
used. You will also save money this way, the party
that you purchase the film from would recoup some of the money that they
paid for the film, and everyone wins but the filmmaker. Although the Tampa
Bay Film Review group reviews will be opinion-orientated
and less formal, Tampa Bay Film will also publish in-depth reviews on
our site with more information about the film, and done by a single reviewer.
These expanded reviews on indie films will cross reference with other
reviews of the films, which include the group reviews of the Tampa
Bay Film Review, as well as other film-relevant coverage.
TAMPA BAY FILM
- 05/09/09 - Tampa
Bay Film will be completely refreshing its web site index in June, and
possibly this month if we have time. We will be changing the thumbnails
are the top of the page, and may be adjusting the main menu. Will the
Tampa film scam section be removed from the main menu and placed in a
subdirectory? With the defeat of the Tampa indie film clique and the dominance
of Tampa Bay Film, it could be a possibility (note: If this happens, we
can easily restore it on the main menu with a quick site code refresh.
Ceasing daily pounding of rogue elements of what is left of the Tampa
indie film clique does not mean that we are disarming, and we could still
continue a heated cold war, since certain people who are dangerous to
the Tampa indie film scene are still very much active. At any rate, we
are in a cold Tampa indie film war which is projected to last for at least
another two years, paving the way for the future of the Tampa indie film
scene and the establishment of Tampa's first professional indie film community,
which currently does not exist, and never did).
TAMPA FILM BLOG
- 05/09/08 - Our
Tampa Film Blog has been indexed, organized, and updated with many new
posts. The most recent Tampa Film Blog post, by Tampa Bay Film director
C. A. Passinault, starts an annual pre-summer, May tradition called the
"It List". C. A. Passinault also dares to predict what the Tampa
film scene will be like five years from now, which is 2014 for those who
possibly have issues with numbers (Paul and Joe). Other announcements
include Tampa film parody projects, work on the 2009 review of The Tampa
Film Review, and some other interesting developments.
ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL BLOG
- 05/09/08 - The
Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival Blog has been updated once again.
Work is progressing on a new third generation online film festival, due
this fall. The newest version will have advanced databasing features,
and will automatically update by adding films as soon as they are submitted.
The online film festival will also be automated, as will be the playlists
and other features. The Tampa Bay Film 2009 review of the Tampa Bay Film
Online Film Festival will pretty much cover the last three months of 2009,
since we only have routine updates and film additions scheduled until
then. We have big plans for our online film festival in 2010.
ONLINE
FILM FESTIVAL BLOG
- 03/13/08 - The
Tampa
Bay Film Online Film Festival Blog has been updated (this is a different
blog than our Tampa Film Blog
(which is also updating, by the way), and deals with work done on our
online film festival as well as films added). In the next few days, we
will be adding a new batch of indie films to our online film festival,
will be refreshing the site index and updating the main thumbnail array,
and will be adding new sections and online film festival channels. One
new channel will our online film workshop, which will contain free video
tutorials for aspiring, and experienced, Tampa filmmakers. This is needed
to help combat and undermine dangerous Tampa
film workshop scams. Forget paying for a shady Tampa film
workshop which is set up to make money at your expense. The best Tampa
film workshop will be online, and it will be available free of charge!
TAMPA MUSIC FESTIVAL
- 12/26/08 - There
has been a lot of web site work going on, with a break starting now and
updates resuming immediately after the new year. For Tampa Bay Film, two
new Tampa film festival reviews were added, the Horror & Hotties 2007
Tampa film festival review and the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival
Review 2007-2008. Our online film festival has been updated a lot lately,
and it will now take a break from updates until somewhere around the first
or second week of January. Development of another online festival, based
on our online film festival, has begun, and it will launch in early 2009.
The Tampa Music Festival will be an online music festival as well as the
web site for the Tampa Music Festival events by Eventi Stage (The Eventi
Stage web site will launch soon). Original music is very important
to indie film production, and the new Tampa Music Festival site will interconnect
with the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival upon launch. Read
more about it on the Tampa DJ Blog
for now (there's even more on the Eventi
Events web site, and especially in the Eventi Events news section),
as there will be more soon on the Tampa
Film Blog. The Tampa Music Festival will tie into the Tampa record
label division of Tampa production company Dream
Nine Studios (which is now primed to produce Tampa's best and most
innovative indie film projects), Tampa event planning company Eventi Events,
Tampa stage production company Eventi Stage, and the production work of
DJ Frontier, who owns, and posts on, the Tampa DJ Blog. Tampa Bay Film
is directly affiliated with all of these parties, and we are all owned
my Passinault.Com. These affiliations and cross-support should prove to
be very interesting in 2009.
TAMPA BAY FILM
- 12/12/08 - Tampa
Bay Film has obtained upgrades, and our web site directories have been
refreshed on the server. Updates include a new button on our main menu
leading directly to the Tampa
Film Blog, support work for the Tampa indie film scam analysis
database now being built, and enhancements to support and integrate this
site with the Tampa
Bay Film Online Film Festival. The Tampa Film Blog is now
the most widely read source on Tampa indie film, and in two months our
Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival has over 5,000 unique visitors a day,
with web traffic totaling over 60,000 hits a day. The Tampa Bay Film Online
Film Festival site has even passed all Tampa film festival web sites in
search engine rankings and search engine results, not to mention word-of-mouth.
Both the Tampa Film Blog and the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival have
far exceeded our expectations, with the Tampa Film Blog amplifying our
influence as the voice of Tampa indie film, and the Tampa Bay Film Online
Film Festival now more effective as an indie film promotion and marketing
tool than all of the Tampa film festivals combined; the advantages of
having a film festival which is always open and available from anywhere
there is an Internet connection. This is just the beginning, and we are
positioning the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival to compete with Tampa
film festival events in 2009. By the time our Tampa Film Showcase Tampa
film festival event and professional networking series debuts, there may
not be much for it to do with other Tampa film festivals but to clean
up what is left of them.
The
Tampa Bay Film Tampa indie film scam analysis database will address Tampa
indie film scams and help Tampa film professionals combat them by exposing,
disrupting, and undermining them. It is a third-generation scam database
and scam-fighting resource based on the technology developed by Florida
Modeling Career and Independent Modeling. Tampa Bay Film will address
the indie film scams relevant to indie film professionals, but out indie
film scam database and indie film scam-fighting resource will tie directly
into the scam fighting resources at Tampa Bay Acting and Independent Acting.
The key to defeating Tampa indie film scams will be to educate actors
and talent to recognize, and to deal with them. It is the goal of Tampa
Bay Film, Tampa Bay Acting, and Independent Acting to cut off Tampa indie
film scams from the actors and talent who are often victimized by them.
We come for war, and it's going to take years. We're prepared to see it
through.
TAMPA ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL
-
11/25/08 - We
upgraded and updated our Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival two days
ago, on 11/23/08. We added 14 new films, and even more are pending now
(we are preparing to add some controversial films, many of them with hard
"R" rated content). We also updated last years Halloween Horror
Picture Show 2007 review with film reviews from Tampa writer Jeff Strand!
Thank you, Jeff, for your excellent contribution; you made a good Tampa
film festival review even better!
TAMPA FILM FESTIVAL SCORES
- 11/01/08 - Here
we go! At a glance, here are the scores, along with the relevant links
to the full reviews of the film festival, if the review exists, to every
Tampa film festival that Tampa Bay Film has reviewed. It is our intention
to keep score rosters of every Tampa film festival possible from now on,
and the stats will continue to grow. Who will rise to the challenge and
hang at the top as one of the best, or the best, Tampa film festival?
The competition increases, and continues. We can't wait to review the
Gasparilla Film Festival in a few months and see where they fit in with
all of this! We will be adding indie film reviews and other types of reviews,
with appropriate stat categories, to a central database soon. Is the Tampa
film festival worth going to? Is that Tampa indie film worth watching?
Is that film blog worth reading? Is that online publication worth following?
We are here to help answer those questions with comprehensive scores,
guides, reviews, and articles. We are also here to inspire those in the
Tampa indie film scene to improve what they do.
HALLOWEEN HORROR PICTURE SHOW 2008
- 10/31/08 - The
official Halloween Horror Picture Show 2008 Tampa Bay Film review, by
C. A. Passinault, is now up. Included in this year's coverage is a mini-review
of the feature indie film, Live Evil!
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!
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