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INDEPENDENT FILM RISKS AND SCAMS
Our upcoming risk analysis and scam analysis databases will address the risks of Tampa Bay indie film, as well as the scams, which it is our opinion there are a lot of. The dual databases will be comprehensive and large, with a scenario-based front-end and detailed terms and definitions. You will be able to use this resource as a way to identify things which are not good for you, and which are not good for independent film. As a result, you will be able to avoid these things and fight back. This section will go online the Summer of 2013, as it is still in development.
03/23/13 - The following statement is the opinion of C. A. Passinault and Tampa Bay Film, and we stand behind it. We challenge anyone out there to prove it wrong.
Sadly, all
is not well in the Tampa Bay independent film scene (and notice that we
are not calling it a “community”). In our opinion, for the
past two decades, up to now in March 2013, there has not been an independent
film community, nor have their been any independent films made which inspire
anyone to take independent filmmaking in Tampa Bay seriously. We expect
this to continue for another few years, until we get new independent filmmakers
in the Tampa Bay market. Those filmmakers will have to be a new breed
of innovative, smart, creative types who think for themselves, too, which
is a rare quality in the local independent film scene now, as most of
the filmmakers today are mindless followers who do not know what they
are doing.
The Tampa Bay indie film scene today, in our opinion, is fragmented, dysfunctional,
and weak There are few, if any, leaders, and the filmmakers that are there
sell-out independent film by supporting film festival and agendas which
undermine indie film. Again, they do not know what they are doing.
The few filmmakers that there are behave like they are in a gang or some
kind of self-deluded clique. They are neurotic and insecure, and they
try to bully others who they see as competition, or as a threat to their
films, in an attempt to run them out of the market. They lie about who
they are and what they do, and they slander others. They also engage in
shady politics which they believe to be self-serving, while hypocritically
professing public support for other filmmakers and the Tampa Bay independent
film “community”; a community which exists in words and not
reality.
As a result, there are a lot of risks and outright scams in the Tampa
Bay independent film scene. You have people misrepresenting themselves
(fraud), people selling out each other, people backstabbing each other,
people undermining independent film because they think that it serves
their interests and will get them ahead while holding back their perceived
competition, people exploiting talent, people padding their resumes with
“awards” that don’t mean anything (their friends gave
it to them, they gave it to themselves, or they had friends vote for them
in obscure contest categories in which they had few competitors) and people
being unethical and unprofessional. There is a lot of cancer in the independent
film scene in Tampa Bay. In our opinion, this is why there has not been
any progress in independent film locally in 20 years, there is not film
community, innovation has been stagnant, there have been few independent
films produced with much, if any, merit, and why no one, except for the
self-serving, self-deluded, filmmakers, take independent films produced
in Tampa Bay seriously.
This is a cancer which must be eradicated before our market can become
healthy and grow.
Tampa Bay Film will inspire a new generation of independent filmmakers
who will displace the existing filmmakers and work together to form the
first independent film community in Tampa Bay. These filmmakers will be
innovative, smart, and creative, and the existing filmmakers will not
be able to compete. These filmmakers will work together to make some of
the most innovative independent films ever done, and we will not only
put Tampa Bay indie film on the map of the worldwide independent film
industry, but will make it a worldwide leader, as well.
We will also help by educating people on what is wrong with the independent
film scene in Tampa Bay with this risks and scams section, which will
launch soon. There is a lot wrong with it.
Until then, do not trust anyone until they have earned your trust, because
it is our opinion that over 70% of the local players are not worth helping
or getting involved with.
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