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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Spotlight Film Down
The spotlight
film “Hey Sweetie” on the main index was “unavailable”
today, and I’m not sure if it is a server problem at their hosting
site or if the independent filmmaker yanked the film and didn’t
bother to tell us. We can’t have that, so I moved another spotlight
film into that slot and put the unavailable film on standby. I’ll
check back later this week, and if it’s available, I may consider
rotating it back.
If the filmmaker pulled it, thank you for having the courtesy not to tell
us. Yes, I’m being sarcastic, as I’m annoyed by the rudeness
and inconsideration if that it turns out to be the case. Fortunately,
I do take the time to monitor the online film festival. That’s not
the only problem film on the online film festival right now. A Tampa indie
film, Mother’s Will, has been moved to
a “private” viewing status, and it is unviewable at the moment.
That film will be pulled as soon as I get the chance
(not a priority right now because it is really low on the playlist), and
all future submissions from that filmmaker will be ignored.
Respect this online film festival; that’s all I ask. It is the top
Tampa film festival, and the most effective. Give us problems now, and
I can assure you, the favor will be returned in the future, when you need
us (this goes for all of my film festival properties, too, and not just
the online film festival. My list of people who I am blacklisting is growing,
and although it may not seem like a big deal right now, it will in the
future. You need us far more that we need you, and this will become more
obvious as time goes on). I just wish some filmmakers understood how to
conduct their careers as professionals; some of them don’t seem
to know what they are doing.
It doesn’t really matter, though. I built this online film festival
to promote and market my indie films, and I allow other filmmakers to
benefit from it as a professional courtesy. I’m doing you a favor.
I also know what I am doing, and will take full advantage of what I’ve
built here. If other filmmakers are not smart enough to get exposure and
be able to fairly compete with what I’ll be offering, I don’t
care. It’s more their loss than it is mine.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Testing Playlist
With the Tampa Bay Film sites now firmly on phase 2 standby (few updates for at least six months, and all film projects / film festival projects on indefinite hold), not a whole lot is going on here. I'm testing the film playlist today to make sure everything is up. So far, so good.
Monday, December 7, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Online Film Festival Adjustments
This evening, I changed the background of the online film festival to a dark blue and the background of Tampa Bay Film to a bright blue (it was almost a background color swap between the two sites, but not quite). I also rerouted the Spaventare short film embedded files to another Youtube account (this version is better), and did some other adjustments.
A day or two after Christmas, I have to update all of the site backgrounds to a new 2010 format, so I can always make other color adjustments. Let me know if watching films on the online film festival is better with the "lights turned down". I'll monitor your feedback until then.
Friday, December 4, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Online Film Festival Design Tweak?
I'm thinking about making the background of the Online Film Festival (OFF) a dark, deep blue, and maybe lightening up the blue background on Tampa Bay Film. The current background may be too bright for a film festival. I might need to turn down the "lights". I admit, watching television programs on Hulu got me thinking about this. They have a cool flash interface where the background darkens. I won't get that fancy, although you can expect a lot of flash work from me in the near future, but the background could be darker. I'll probably do this in the next few days, and the official screen grab for the 2009 Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival Review on Tampa Film Review may use it. At the end of the month, I'll make the 2010 OFF background with the same color (Can't have a 2009 review with a 2010 background on the image, now, can I? This said, the application of the new Super Raptor dual menu format is a dramatic change from last year's look.).
Sunday, November 29, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Down To 88 Films. 100 Tears TOS Removal?
What in the hell is this? A Tampa filmmaker puts up a trailer for their film, and then later has it removed for terms of use (TOS) violations, causing it to cease playing on the online film festival as a result? Weird. Afraid that people will see a trailer for your film? I won't speculate that this is because I have some criticisms about the film, in general, and that it was on the online film festival (not that a trailer for a mediocre film is going to add much to a film festival). Is this because I referred to it as snuff porn? Well, with the great story, deep plot, and well-developed characters, I'm sure that it will sell well (I'm being sarcastic about it, too, because 100 Tears is merely a bloody killing spree, with weak writing and one-dimensional characters. What do you expect when Joe Davison writes a screenplay and casts himself as the lead "hero" character?). I'd rather leave the trailer playing, and let the audience make up their own minds about the film, and not take what my opinion is literally, but it doesn't matter. Don't worry, Marcus, your official 100 Tears review is coming up soon on Tampa Bay Film; I'll buy a copy of the DVD, and I will go out of my way to buy it used so that the filmmaker doesn't make any money from the sale (It's cheaper, too). I'll even do one better.... I have a Tampa Bay Film Review underground film festival scheduled a few weeks from now, and I'll get a group of Tampa's best actors, talent, and filmmakers together to review the film as a group; it ought to be interesting to see what they have to say about it (this will be a second, group review). I need to see about obtaining a used copy of the DVD now, I suppose.
Yes, Marcus, people take the "Passinault indie film report" (his term for Tampa Bay Film, which was coined in a negative context, as it seems that none of these people like their work objectively reviewed. Marcus was not a fan when the site launched, and it seems that the trend continues. Too bad.) very seriously, as you're about to find out (especially with the search engine boost my reviews will be getting in the next few weeks). I wonder if Marcus, though, is the Salacious B. Crumb to Joe's Joeba The Butt, as they both seem to go ballistic whenever anyone has anything remotely negative to say about 100 Tears. Tis a wonderful parody image, however, and I shall have to make the most of it in my upcoming parody film, Twisted Puppet Show (which will play here on the online film festival, as will be the case for all of my short films).
Make no mistake: I made these sites to market my films and my indie film agenda, although, in professional fairness, I allow "competitors" to enjoy the same advantages that I've set up for myself. If they want to yank their films off of Youtube so they can't be seen on the online film festival, so be it. It's their loss. I'm smart enough to know that this online film festival is an excellent promotional platform for indie films, and it should be, because I designed it that way. My numbers, too, support this position. The online film festival is the most effective, and popular, Tampa film festival. Remove your films at your own peril. Not only will you miss out on a lot of exposure, but if you inconvenience me, I'll ignore you in the future. Another thing: I am all about supporting creative filmmaking and filmmaking which, in my opinion, advances Tampa indie film and indie filmmaking in general. If a film is poor, it won't be shown at any of my film festival events; I respect my audience and their time, and will not burden them with the boredom of being forced to view poor films. At least here, on the online film festival, I allow everything to be shown, since the viewers can vote with a click of their mouse and skip the film if they think that it sucks, or they simply are not into it. There are films on here that I certainly do not like, but they are being promoted on here. I have films on here which I do not agree with, but I allow them to be seen. I even have films on here with opposing viewpoints, as this online film festival is open to everyone and all films. Take advantage of this online film festival, as it will be one of the easiest ways for a filmmaker to get their foot in the door with my film festivals and Tampa Bay Film. If enough of the audience here likes your film, I may be open to consider accepting it in one of my film festival events.
Ahem. I hate it when they do this. Time to remove another "film" from the menu, and then go back and finish working on the Tampa Bay Film sites.
Oh, and we changed the "Films" button on the inter-site navigation menu (right side) to "Watch Films" on all of the Tampa Bay Film sites this weekend (some of you have already noticed the change). As you know, that particular button leads here, to the online film festival!
Monday, November 23, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Down To 89 Films. Where Are The New Films?
We lost yet another film, a music video by Jade 4 U, and the loss is directly related to the Praga Khan "Supermodel" music video removal debacle (I believe that the same copyright owner owns both properties, and addressed the terms of use B.S. on both simultaneously, getting them booted off of Youtube). This is why I like it better when filmmakers submit films to us directly, which is happening a lot more these days; it is more likely that the filmmakers will keep their films online if they submit them to us, and that's much less work on us when we don't have to go back and adjust the directories of the online film festival to remove films that no longer play.
So, where are the films? Unlike the situation back in 2007 when most online films consisted of trailers, and the fact that it was difficult to run an online film festival with trailers, filmmakers out there are getting the message and publishing much more of their short films online in an effort to get exposure. We no longer have any shortage of online films to choose from, and because of the popularity, and the superb search engine performance of the online film festival, we are receiving a lot of submissions to this online film festival by the filmmakers. As a matter of fact, we have evidence that filmmakers are now uploading their films to video sites like Youtube specifically to submit them to this online film festival (for starters, they submit them to us, following all of our instructions, on the same day that they upload them to the video site). Of course, and another cool side benefit of the filmmakers getting in touch with us is that they are generally open to discussing their film in detail; The filmmakers behind Z3D3 (Australia) and The Dirty Bomb Diaries (California) have had great discussions about their films with me via email. It's been very cool, and will get a lot cooler as time goes on, and this film festival continues to evolve, and improve.
Some of you may be wondering why a Tampa online film festival is running films from all over the world. Well, to be honest, there isn't a lot going on here in Tampa right now (although I saw a couple of cool films with Ann at the USF Film Festival Saturday night before she and I left for dinner). The rule is that we emphasis Tampa films, and if they are available, we put them at the head of the submissions. Naturally, however, because the Tampa film scene isn't that great right now, and there really isn't much of a Tampa film community to be proud of, there is a shortage of good Tampa indie films worth showing here (we'll play the crap films, too, as the viewers vote with a click of the mouse, and can opt to watch something else if they wish). Basically, there aren't a lot of Tampa films, period. The rule is that we can show good indie films from anywhere in the world to fill our playlist, and this is especially true if the production of those films are possible here in the Tampa Bay area; they serve to inspire Tampa filmmakers on what is possible. Everyone wins this way. The same rules apply to my upcoming film festivals, such as the Tampa Film Showcase. If we were to limit those film festivals to Tampa films only, we wouldn't have much of a film festival, would we? The Tampa Film Review learned this less on late, and, in my opinion, it was a case of too-little, too-late. They started showing films from everywhere to strengthen their programming (whether this was a result of the organizers reacting to my reviews of the TFR is a subject of much debate, but I'd like to think that I had something to do with it. The organizers freaked out once my reviews of their film festival were published; They became really pissed off at me, and seemed to put more effort into fixing shortcomings which, ultimately, were never fixed).
Anyway, I have a long que of films that need to be added, and probably won't be added until sometime in December, now, as I'm tied up coding and readying the other Tampa Bay Film sites. I have a really busy week this week, too. For now, I'm cleaning the studio. Lates.
Thursday, November 12, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Down To 90 Films. Where Do You Watch Us?
Sigh..... I was chilling on my studio couch last night watching films on this online film festival, more comfortable than I could be at any film festival event (get your mind out of the gutter. I was fully clothed and it was "G" rated... I was just resting with my head on a pillow, as I had not been feeling well, occasionally clicking a film to watch it with a mouse on my coffee table), and watched for over an hour. The online film festival is a good time killer, for sure! Anyway, I noticed that lovely Gamespot took down my cool Street Fighter 4 video, so I will have to remove that as soon as possible. Gamespot, you suck! How are the mainstream public going to accept video games as mainstream entertainment when you remove videos so we cannot promote video games to them? I'm not adding any more videos from that site. Thus, we are down to 90 films on the online film festival. On we go. I'll have to add another 20 films or so later this month.
Which gives me an idea. Where do you watch films on the online film festival? Is it on your couch? In your home office? On your iPhone (I really don't have a clue if the online film festival is compatible, as I don't have an iPhone, or an iPod Touch, to test it, and it is not my problem, although if your supposedly "smart phone" is really Internet capable, then the online film festival should work with it by default. I do know that the Wii's Opera "browser" does work with the online film festival, which sucks when I want to show my friends films on a huge home theater)? On your PSP (Don't say "yes". I've already tested it, and it does not work- this was a trick question)? In the car? At the bar? On a date? Where, oh where, do you watch the online film festival? This, of course, is going to become a cool marketing campaign of some sort eventually. In 2010, we will be pushing the online film festival at every event and gathering where we can, as Tampa Bay Film crews will be out and about. Yes, marketing material is coming, and we are investing a lot of time and money into that material. The online film festival, and Tampa Bay Film, will be heavily promoted, especially when the online film festival is the perfect marketing platform for my portfolio of indie films, which are due online toward the end of 2010.
I can't help it. It's that I have something really, really cool here with this online film festival, and I know it. More and more people are realizing it, too, and word is spreading. It's hard not to get excited about what's here now, and the potential it has, especially when you are me, and have full knowledge of exactly what is coming.
For now, I have to work on the Tampa Bay Film sites. Site directory refreshes are coming on Sunday night!
Sunday, November 8, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Down To 91 Films
It's lame when people remove videos from wherever they are posted. Kind of like the time that Damien found out that I was playing his short film on the online film festival, and he removed the film, "Hand Job Delivery" (a spoof on the real title, but it might as well have been called that), from Youtube, out of spite. His film was some sort of attempt at a comedy, and featured an awful bimbo actress who was more eye candy than an actor. You'd think that filmmakers knew what they were doing, and would appreciate all of the exposure that they can get (not that many filmmakers, especially Tampa filmmakers, know what they are actually doing). A music video was just removed for Terms Of Use violations on Youtube, and it's on my main thumbnail array. I see you, Praga Khan video. Fortunately, a site code refresh is imminent, anyway, with a menu adjustment, so it won't be a problem removing the film and making adjustments. I'm going to have to start auditing all the films every month to make sure that they play. I do watch a lot of films on here, though, and I do get a lot of feedback from viewers, so it's no biggie keeping on top of things and making sure that all of the films work. This is, after all, the most effective Tampa film festival, and we have more virtual "attendance" now than all of the film festivals in Florida, combined! This is easy to understand with the film festival running online 24/7, and accessible from anywhere there is an Internet connection. In other words, everywhere and all the time.
Annoying. That is all.
Friday, November 6, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Menu Tweak Coming
The online film festival directories will be refreshed by the end of the weekend, with adjustments to the main menu on the left, and some of the code. This should be the final adjustment on the left menu, swapping positions on the Instructions button and the About Us Button. Some sites, such as the Tampa Film Blog, will see at least half of the left-side menu re-arranged. Fortunately, out of all eight of the Tampa Bay Film sites, this online film festival is the one which is up to spec, and little has to be done with it right now.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Music Videos!
I've been adding a lot of cool music videos lately. I have a ton in que to be added later this month. Some of your have emailed us with questions about the type of music videos being featured here on the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival. A lot of you love them, and say that we have good taste in music. Well, I've been selecting the videos, and the preference for music showcased here on the online film festival reflect my own tastes. It comes from my DJ background. I love techno and dance music. I love classical music. I have great tastes in music, and in art. I know what it good, and I know what isn't. This said, I have no desire to post any country music videos. I can tolerate all music but country; country music does not agree with me, and it puts me in a bad mood (I'm also not into coffee, smoking, fake people, or slow people). If anyone out there has a great country music video to add to the online film festival, we'll add it, but personally, I won't be watching it, other than initially screening it before adding the video (and listening to a lot of cool music afterwards to forget the experience of being tortured with it). I will never, ever, however, select any country music videos to be added here. In my opinion, country music sucks, and I want nothing to do with it.
In the 1990's, when I was DJ'ing a number of underground programs, I made a mistake. I took requests, and made compromises. As artists, we should be open to new forms of expression, but if we know something, and it's not us, we should never be forced to work with it. I did a country release, which wasn't me. I also went ahead and took "requests" from people and modified my programming to accommodate those requests. The people who made the requests did not have a clue about what cool music was (they followed what others told them was cool), and as a result, those programs were not as good as they could of been.
Now, I'm not saying that it's cool to be close minded, to make assumptions, and to be judgmental. I also am not saying that it is alright to discriminate. I am saying that you need to figure out what you are into, and what you are not, and to stay true to who you are, and what you are into. There is a difference.
I'm into cool things and talented people. My selections for this site will reflect my tastes.
Thursday, October 29, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Issues With Certain Embedded Players
We just don't update the online film festival and ignore it. Not at all. We also sit back, chill out, and watch indie films on it, just like everyone else does. Lately, however, we've noticed that a certain type of player on here takes several tries, most of the time, to actually play. We are talking about the Revver flash player, and films hosted on Revver.
We are scheduled to add more films in a couple of weeks, by mid November. We have the original 12 archived films left over from the last update, which we did not get the chance to add, and another 2 selected yesterday, which should bring our total to 106 films. We plan on adding at least another ten, too, which should raise us to 116 indie films. Since we will have a lot of films to choose from, we will be refreshing all of the online film festival directories, again, and will be changing a lot of the thumbnails in the thumbnail array above, which are our featured films. It's safe to say that, due to ongoing issues with getting Revver hosted films to play, that those films, regardless of how good that they are, will be removed from the thumbnail array, while remaining available as selectable films in the online film festival channels. I'm sick of Revver files failing to load, and so are others. I don't want newcomers to the online film festival to get discouraged because they can't seem to get some films to play. Thus, problem films will be shuffled to the back, and we will not add more episodes on series such as Lonelygirl until we can locate the episodes on Youtube, or some other video hosting network.
We will be working on our own flash player in early 2010, and it should be available with upcoming generations of the online film festival. We will also be obtaining a large hosting account specifically to host large files, such as MPEG and MP3 files. Some of my films, for example, will be so controversial, that I suspect that they would have a hard time staying up on Youtube (Reverence would probably get flagged off of Youtube, since I've seen other films get removed. Vampire Killers episode 2 had a bloody, intense torture and death scene in it, which wasn't anywhere near as severe as what Reverence will have, and it was flagged off). We're going to need these improvements, just to support what is coming.
Youtube or onsite hosting: regardless of how a film is hosted, I've figured out some really clever, and cool, ways to add features. All my films playing on here will have a running commentary option, and this is available even if the film is hosted on Youtube. How can I add DVD-type features? I can't say, but I will say that the technology is already there. I merely figured out a way to engineer it, and it's not as difficult to do as you might think. I only know that I've never seen an indie film playing online with a running commentary option, and mine would be the first.
Ah. A few more notes. Tampa Bay Film will be launching a message board for Tampa indie filmmakers in 2010. It will be a part of the Tampa Bay Film Tampa Film Community site, and future generations of the online film festival will create a thread on it for a film once the film is added. Viewers can then discuss the film on the message board thread, which will also link back to the film on the online film festival.
Now, should I make the background for the 2010 online film festival darker? We shall see.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Online Film Festival Menus Finalized
The menu format for the new Super Raptor class format, which is now utilized by this online film festival, has been finalized. The site has, again, been refreshed, and the menu options have changed! Look carefully before clicking! Menu buttons leading to Tampa Bay Film other Tampa Bay Film sites which were on the left are now on the right. Click on LEFT side buttons to navigate to the main sections of this web site. Click on RIGHT side buttons to visit other Tampa Bay Film sites. This format will be shared among all of the Tampa Bay Film sites, so it should get super-easy and intuitive over time if you are already used to the old navigation. If you are new to our sites, it should be simple to use.
Saturday, October 3, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
The Great Menu Shuffle Continues.....
Oiye........ The Super Raptor Class site format for the Tampa Bay Film sites was finalized this morning, just after we refreshed the web site. Expect the menu options to be changed yet again. For longtime visitors of Tampa Bay Film, expect initial confusion as menu buttons to the online film festival and other Tampa Bay Film sites go to the right, instead of the left menu. Why wasn't it formatted correctly to begin with? The way that the Tampa Bay Film menu was set up. With two annex sites, it wasn't as confusing in the early days. Now, with eight Tampa Bay Film sites, it is. The menu array on the right will stay consistent among all eight sites, even though the button designs will be different for every site. This will allow easy, intuitive navigation between the different sites and throughout the sections on each web site, without accidentally jumping to another site and trying to figure out which is which. The way that it is right now, you have to watch what you click, and it is a little confusing. Want to stay on the site and navigate among its section, stick to the left. Want to jump to another Tampa Bay Film site, go to the right. Simple (don't try it now.... it's still mixed up).
Oh, yes, and it was decided today that we were going to start reviewing films on the online film festival. The reviews will be on the Tampa Film Review Tampa Bay Film site, and will link back to the film here on the online film festival. We will also be linking to the relevant reviews here on the site.
Ciao. We have a long work day ahead of us. We have to redo the menus on the Tampa Film Blog, this online film festival, and upgrade the Tampa Bay Film site to a Super Raptor. That's going to be a lot of work.
Saturday, October 3, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Online Film Festival Upgraded. Up To 92 Films!
The Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival was upgraded from a Raptor Class web site to a new Super Raptor Class site this morning, following the upgrade done to the Tampa Film Blog. The online film festival now has double the main menu options, with new sections added. We also added another 17 indie films to the online film festival, raising us to 92 films available. The new films are part of a series, however, with stand-alone episodes, so don't go looking for additional thumbnails. An additional 12 indie films are ready to be added, with support files already uploaded, but they will not be added to the online film festival until the next update. The online film festival is now ready for the challenges of 2010!
Saturday, September 19, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Up To 75 Films.
I added 5 new films. I would have added over 20 more from the archives and redone the thumbnail array, but I am tired, and I ran out of time. I need sleep. I also managed to fix a glitch with one of the thumbnails in the array.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Online Film Festival Directories Refreshed.
We refreshed the online film festival directories, making adjustments to the template content and replacing the offline film on the main film thumbnail bar above with the Joe Redner trailer. We also removed the Google ad code and replaced the ads with the ones on currently on Tampa Bay Film (a temporary measure until the next code update). Expect another refresh, a large one, by next month as we complete adding the films from our archives and add a ton of new indie films to the online film festival. We have to get ready to be reviewed in a few months. We're hoping to have a special event of the Tampa Bay Film Review (which would be the second underground film festival gathering after its debut, which is now set for November 2009) in December 2009, or January 2010, to review this online film festival. The review will be from a group of professional entertainers, models, actors, and other Tampa indie film professionals, as well as a few other invited guests. The 2009 review of the the online film festival, and all reviews of Tampa film festivals by Tampa Bay Film henceforth, will be published on Tampa Film Review, which will soon look a lot like Tampa Bay Film.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
International Online Film Festival Project In The Works.
As of today, it is official. I am working on an on International online film festival which will utilize PHP Databasing, and our own flash format for the films. The new online film festival will have a 4th generation online film festival backbone, but will be expanded to a 5th generation online film festival (a revolutionary format which can completely compete with any film festival event), eventually. I'm thinking about naming it the Chris Woods Online Film Festival? Does it have a good ring to it? Actually, the name is pending.
In other news, this online film festival is in need of a site code refresh (as is Tampa Bay Film, the Tampa Film Blog, the Tampa Film Showcase, Tampa Bay Modeling, and some other affiliated sites. Looks like I will be using a lot of bandwidth soon). The online film festival lost its Google ads, and that's why is has an unbalanced look with the right side of the screen empty. I'll probably just stick my own ads on there, which are currently on Tampa Bay Film. Actually, all the Tampa Bay Film sites are going to have to look the same, with main menus which are compatible with each other (this is already being done with Tampa Bay Film, the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival, and the Tampa Film Showcase). All eight of the Tampa Bay Film sites are going to have to have design continuity between them. Tampa Bay Film, the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival, Tampa Film Showcase, Tampa Film Blog, Tampa Film Review, Tampa Film Festivals, Tampa Film Community, and Tampa Film Conference will all share the same Raptor Class design shortly. Visitors will be able to navigate freely between the sites, and other than some minor design adjustments and title changes, it will all seem like the same web site. In essence, all eight of the Tampa Bay Film sites will be one huge meta-site.
All of the other Tampa Bay Film film festival properties may also receive their own domain names, which would be another four domain names, raising the number of Tampa indie film-relevant sites to twelve! The four other sites would have their own designs, however, and would not be highly interlinked with Tampa Bay Film like the other seven web sites will be. I'm still not so sure about that, though, as currently the plan is to market all of the Tampa film festival properties, including this online film festival and the international online film festival, on Tampa Film Festivals (logistically easier, and it makes more sense). The Tampa Film Showcase and the online film festivals, in that case, would be the only ones which have their own stand-alone web sites (besides the design similarities and the interlinked navigation with Tampa Bay Film). This would leave us at eight web sites, where we now stand.
My indie film projects will probably have their own film sections on my Dream Nine Studios web site. I could also opt to launch another web site for them. Time will tell.
Monday, September 14, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Now Down to 71 Online Films, And I Am Glad That We Lost This One.
The film that we lost now is the placeholder film that I put up in place of the last film that we lost, ironically. I suppose that they did not like me ragging on their film on this popular online film festival. Jerks. My opinion stands, however. I really don't want to see any more cliched vampire films with lesbians and priests.
Saturday, August 15, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Down to 72 Online Films.
Nice. Now we've dropped down to 72 films, available, also due to some terms of use foolishness. The film series in question, Vampire Killers, is also one on the main thumbnail array, which requires a site code refresh to remove. In this case, the terms of use violation does not seem to come from the copyright holder, but rather some easily offended people on YouTube. Vampire Killers was always somewhat of a puzzle to get entirely online, since YouTube viewers kept banning the second episode, and it was not available for embedding. I saw that second episode, and it was really good..... I don't see why people were banning it. At any rate, since the first episode, which has now been removed, is one of my feature films, my viewers will just have to deal with it until I get the time to refresh the directories of the online film festival, and it will be September before I will have time to get to that. I need to do a massive update for the fall, anyway, so this will work out. I'll spend some time looking for another 20 to 30 indie films to add, as well as re-add the archived films. This should give me enough material to replace at least 75% of the thumbnail array, and get the online film festival is shape for our official 2009 review on Tampa Bay Film, which will be the focus of a Tampa Bay Film Review underground film festival gathering scheduled for later this year. I'm aware of the missing film, and I'll work on a patch until I get the chance to do that code update. Thx........ Hmmmm.... I have an idea. Done. Issue fixed, for now.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Oh, Come On Now.... Really?
We're down to 73 films, and have lost one due to some terms of use silliness. The Star Trek New Voyages episode has been pulled from YouTube due to infringement, and as a result it went dead on the online film festival. I think that what happened is stupid. It's a fan series- the people who made it don't have the rights to the series, but rather the episode. Also, it is available free on the Internet for download, and it is much harder to watch in that format! Wouldn't you want a film series that you didn't own the right to sell, but was a showcase for your filmmaking, to be watched as much as possible? These people who want their work seen, but yet make these stupid moves to limit how it is seen, only hurt themselves. They also annoy me, because I am in the middle of some things right now and don't have time to remove a film which should have never been pulled to begin with. Hopefully, I will be in the position to educate filmmakers on marketing and promotion soon. Those people certainly need to be educated.
I could rip the episode and restore it on YouTube, but I won't. I wouldn't do that to any filmmaker (I'd like to make The Pledge available, too, and I have that capability, but it's up to the filmmaker to either make it available or to give me permission to do so - I will not infringe upon their rights). I may strongly disagree with what they did, but I will respect the rights that they have. I will, however, protest.
The Star Trek people can count on me withdrawing my support for what they are doing. They don't deserve it. Listen up, filmmakers; don't ever alienate those who could support and help promote your work. Oh, well, at least Wynkoop got to see it in the brief time that it was playing on the online film festival; he wrote me that he loved it.
I'll finish the Lonelygirl and the archive additions as soon as I can get to it. I'm really busy. Hopefully, we'll break the 100 film barrier in September. A year from now, we could have thousands of films. Check the Tampa Film Blog for more.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
4th Generation Online Film Festival Is Now The 5th.
I had to do some redefining today. I've stated that the 4th generation online film festival would be a huge leap over what the upcoming 3rd will be, but I had to move that generation up one because the 3rd will be in two phases; both phases different enough to warrant the addition of another generation.
Usually, I plan things well enough that I don't have to do this. This time, it's different.
Right now, we have a solid platform with this 2nd generation online film festival. It works quite well, and I'm happy with it. The issue, however, is that, despite pulling embed codes from other sites, the set-up and and formatting can take up to 30 minutes per film. This said, I have added 14 films in one night before, but those took all night.
The 3rd generation online film festival will use this 2nd generation online film festival as a foundation, and will add PHP databasing functions to the online film festival. This will allow filmmakers to submit their films, and their embed codes, to the online film festival to be added, and they will do most of the prep work. Additionally, the navigation menu will adapt to new films when they are added to the playlist, which is great because right now we have to manually reset them. The 3rd generation online film festival will have a gate keeping function, too, which will keep spammers from abusing the system and people trying to add content which are not films. All additions will have to be approved before the system will add the submission to the playlist. This approval process will take less than a minute in most cases. The databasing functions will also allow many of the online film festival processes, such as voting films in the showcase, to be automated.
I've said that the 3rd generation online film festival will go online early in 2010. Well, the PHP work has been going well, and we may be able to get it online late this year! When the 3rd generation online film festival goes online, expect the film festival playlist to explode in size, from a hundred-odd films, to thousands. That is when it will go mainstream, and since it will have the same directories, etc, you can find it right here. The existing online film festival was designed for generational expansion in mind.
The 3rd generation format will be applied to the Tampa Music Festival, which it will launch with soon.
The 4th generation online film festival (standards that used to be counted as phase 2 of the 3rd generation), which should be online sometime in 2010, will add storage, bandwidth, and custom flash encoding support. The online film festival will no longer depend upon flash files stored on other sites, such as Youtube. Obviously, legal reasons among them, this generational model will largely depend upon user submissions. Keep in mind, too, that, we have no desire to create another Youtube. We want a section of indie films on the online film festival, and do not want people adding random videos that will clutter our playlist. Youtube, it can be argued, is useless as an online film festival because it is very hard to find films on there among all the other videos cluttering up the site. The online film festival will stay indie film (and music video, etc) relevant, and we will be working hard to keep it that way with an approval process.
So, what is the mysterious 5th generation online film festival? It will be revolutionary, and will be a lot different than what even the 4th generation online film festival will be. It will be a flash and a PHP based site, with some rather interesting features. More than just an online film festival, the 5th generation will be a "virtual film festival" hosted online. It will be so revolutionary, in fact, that we are now planning a national "virtual film festival" using 5th generation standards for launch in 2011. This national virtual film festival will work with this one, as well as other film festival properties.
There is a LOT more, too, but nothing that I can disclose right now. I can't even hint about some of the things that are being worked on, and planned. Great things are coming. The many facets of a revolution will change everything. The indie film industry, just like the modeling industry and the entertainment industry, will be transformed.
Which reminds me. I have to finish up some work on the online film festival, but not before I update some other blogs.
Sunday, July 26, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
6 Films Added. 23 Archived Films Added. Indie Film Channels Updated.
I'm almost caught up. I added another 6 films to the online film festival, bringing the official film count to 74 films. 23 episodes of the Lonelygirl15 series was added from archive, too, bringing the total indie film count to 97 films available on the online film festival. In the coming week, I also have to add another 22 indie films from archive, which will take us to a total of 119 indie films available.
Right now, we're at an official total of 97 films playing on the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival, which is good. We are getting there. The 23 un-archived Lonelygirl15 episodes are programmed to play in sequence, so don't go looking for 23 new thumbnails in the main film festival channel. There is one thumbnail, and one line leading to the episodes. It won't be like that for the additional 22 films which will be added from archive in the next week. Each of them has a thumbnail, and their own line.
I also updated the online film festival channels, including the scores on our showcase channel. Effective immediately, the film scoring system is active, and out online film festival showcase contest begins. The indie film showcase channel shows the best indie films available on the online film festival. It is a prime channel, and is so important that it can be selected from the main menu.
One of the six films that were added today particularly impressed me, as it was a Tampa indie film, and one of the best short films that I have ever seen. I am adding it to the showcase channel by default. The film was made last week for the 48 hour film project, of all things, and it was written by Paul Guzzo, of all people, and directed by his brother Pete Guzzo. The film is The Perpetual life: Kyle Cooper, produced by Brian Bourkee. Paul demonstrates superb writing in the short film, and his brother Pete also shows excellent skill as a director. Although these guys aren't really event planners, and put on mediocre film festivals with serious flaws, they are great filmmakers, and do top-notch work. Other notable highlights of the film include excellent acting by the actors, and amazing camera work by DP Erik Curtis, Camera Operator Wes Pratt, and Assistant Camera Joe Boylan. The use of a high-end RED HD camera, which few Tampa filmmakers have access to, created some high quality footage. The fact that the film was done in two days made it particularly impressive. Well done, guys. With more films like this, the Tampa filmmaking scene is well on its way to becoming respectable.
Once the other archived films are added, I will be looking around for some great films to add, including some more films from last weekends 48 hour film project. I'd also like to add more episodes of Vampire Killers, although Youtube banned the second episode (I watched it and found nothing wrong with it- there are some nerds on Youtube who freak out over torture and death scenes), so that will be tricky. Although I am not too fond of the contest, it is a good source of indie films, and some of them are decent. I have one film that was submitted last week, too, which cannot be added because we can't find embed codes, so I have to get back to the filmmaker and get them to make an embedded version so we can add it.
Once we have at least 120 films available, which should be next month, I will be redoing the highlight thumbnails at the top of the site pages, and will be refreshing the entire directory code of the online film festival. This code and thumbnail refresh is needed for the fall season, as well as the upcoming review, which will be published on Tampa Bay Film. I'll have a group of entertainment industry professionals review this online film festival much like we will be doing with our upcoming Tampa Bay Film Review underground film festival series. All that I have to do is to get a group together, and hook up a computer to a home theater system.
Expect the addition of lots of cool music videos, too, which will be a perfect springboard for the Tampa Music Festival site. My work has only just begun.
CORRECTION: Strike that last film count. I was only able to get one of the archived Lonelygirl15 episodes online (it was tougher porting than I thought), so I'm 22 short for tonight. I ran out of time. We currently have 74 films online, and I'll get the rest of those films up as soon as I get the chance later this week. I have 45 minutes left to wrap this up, but I'm done with everything else, and it was done right!
Friday, July 24, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Online Film Festival File Directory Diagnostics
I did a refresh of the archives a while ago, and corrupted the files through a CSS field error. I had to transplant archive files from the old online film festival to refresh the archives for porting to the active film festival. After the transplant, I had to do a film count and a diagnostic. The current online film festival was not effected, although the diagnostic found an error in one of the links, which I fixed. That was only the beginning of my dilemma.
Officially, we have 66 indie films online. The diagnostic counted 70. Obtaining an accurate count has proven to be a challenge, simply because many films are cut up into parts, or episodes. There are also an annoying number of trailers, which technically are not films. Thus, I have to nail down the definitions before accurate numbers can be conveyed.
I'm known for not taking shortcuts, so those numbers will be conservative. If a film is cut up into parts, or episodes, which make up an entire film, all those parts will be counted as a single film (Star Trek, which is cut up into 7 parts, and Dirty Bomb Diaries, which is cut up into 16 episodes which make up a single feature, for examples). If it is a series, with each episode a self-contained film, regardless of length, each episode would be counted as a separate film (Lonelygirl15, which needs to be ported from archives, as an example). Additionally, trailers, regardless of how annoying, will be treated as a film. Expositional plot arc will be the key. Now the the definitions are defined, I will also say that there will be unique situations which we'll have to make a determination with.
Now, I will run another diagnostic, and when done, I will give the new official tally of the number of indie film selections available on our online film festival................
Done. There were 66 indie films with two more added (the Praga Khan Supermodel music video and the 7 part Star Trek episode). Officially, there are now 68 films playing in our online film festival. There are several more films (5) that need to be added in the next week, and when we port the Lonelygirl15 episodes from archive, that will be an additional 23 films. It's safe to say that we will have at least 100 films available by the end of July 2009, and I'm not even counting the massive updates scheduled for August. By September 2009, the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival should have at least 150 films, an increase of 50% in the August updates.
Alright. I counted 22 archived films that need to be added, too, so add that to the estimate. I'll have to set up files for each of those films, and then add them to the menu with placeholder thumbnails that look like this:
LOL.... Just kidding. The placeholder thumbnails, which I just now found, look like this:
Until the archives were slated to be added, we haven't needed to use the placeholder thumbnails, as we watch all films before we add them, and compile the screen grabs as we go. Currently, many films in the archives do not have screen grab files, and they will all have to be watched to obtain them. This takes time. As you should be made aware of, the format guidelines of this newest second generation, stand-alone Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival site (this current one) state that every film selection requires an image thumbnail created from a screen grab. This makes the menus nicer, and more compelling. The original online film festival, which was a part of the old Tampa Bay Film site, used text-only menus, with a few thumbnails at the top of the site. I could add films to the old online film festival in 5 minutes. Lately, with all the thumbnail work and such added, it takes me at least 15 to 20 minutes to add a film to the current online film festival, not including the time spent watching the film to see what it's about and to capture frames for the screen grabs (add double to triple time of the TRT of the film to account for that, too). On average, it can take up to 30 minutes of work to add a single film! That's a far cry from the initial online film festival, but let me tell you that the extra work is worth it. The quality of this online film festival is the result, and you are all welcome!
I will admit to one thing, however. I went through our current library, and many of the films suck, or are trailers barely worth keeping. This will change. We will be adding lot of great films soon, as I have no wish to turn this into an online Tampa Film Review which shows crappy films which bore the audience. Sure, there will be some crap (I need to add our indie film dumpster channel for our viewers to watch bad films and make fun of them), but I'm more interested in adding good films.
Now that I've disclosed that, I am looking forward to the third generation online film festival due next year, which will be built on these existing directories, and will use this current online film festival as a foundation. The film addition process will be automated, and our workload will be reduced. It shouldn't take us any longer than the time to watch a film before it is approved for addition, as the people who submit their films will supply the information, embed codes, and the image file.
So, 150 films by September is a lot? For this format, it is. I'm aiming for 250 by the end of 2009. When the third generation film festival goes online (which will be fully backwards compatible with this existing second generation online film festival, expect a ton of films to be added. Our online film library will explode in 2010, and could have thousands of films playing by the end of next year, around the time that our Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional networking event series is scheduled to debut in the Tampa Bay market. It's going to be cool!
For now, I have to adjust some of the files on this site, and prepare to add more films. Also, expect a full site code refresh sometime next month. You'll know when it happens because the thumbnails will change, and some links will also change. I'll also report it here on the online film festival blog, as well as over on the Tampa Film Blog.
Ciao for now.
Thursday, July 23, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Star Trek New Voyages: World Enough And Time Added. More To Come.
I am annoyed. I spent so much time writing my Tampa Film Blog post last night, I ran out of time. I managed to add the seven part Star Trek New Voyages episode (Hey..... Two of my friends were in this!), and will have to add the rest tomorrow. I have a shoot tomorrow morning, so the new content will be updated around noon. At least the Tampa Film Blog post is pretty good..... especially the parts about my underground film festivals and my pride about this online film festival. Ciao.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
..... Tomorrow Again. Also, The Tampa Music Festival To Be Like The Online Film Festival.
So much for tomorrow, as of July 11. Although the films were coded and ready to be added, I became busy and wasn't able to add them due to a swamped schedule. I was delayed for a couple of weeks. Although I am still finishing up contracts and am shooting a lot this week, I will make time to complete the latest additions late tonight. They should (will) be up tomorrow morning, and the new Star Trek episode will be on the main page. This has to be completed because I am beginning to have some overlap with the updates. I have more films and music videos being indexed for addition now.
Speaking of music videos, my new Tampa Music Festival site, which is currently on standby, will be designed much like this online film festival. Featuring music videos, the site will also have embedded MP3 files, programs, steaming content, and downloads. The layout and design will be like this site, and I hope to have it fully operational this fall. Think of it as a second online film festival, but for music!
Check out the Tampa Film Blog in the next few days for a decision regarding my manic buildup of Tampa-relevant domain names, too. Enough is enough... You should see my bills every month. The upkeep of all those web sites is turning into a full time job, too, even with measures in place to support the work.
Friday, July 10, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
One Film Added. Three More Tomorrow.
My paperwork, which was only supposed to last a couple of weeks, has stretched into a couple of months. I'm almost done, and then I can resume regular site updates. Running businesses takes a lot of time. We have four more set films to be added, and one of those is a one hour feature Star Trek film in seven parts. I added one of them today, temporarily featured on the main page, and plan on adding the others tomorrow.
Oh, and we are adding a ton of new films this summer. We will also be adding the archived films back to the main indexes, and allow them to be selected. We won't be ready for the next generation of the online film festival this fall (that is now scheduled for early 2010), but we will have lots of cool films for our visitors to check out and enjoy!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Two Films Down. More Films Coming This Summer.
We discarded two films from our online film festival today. We are now down to 64 active films.
We will be adding more films to the online film festival shortly, as well as reactivate some films from our archives. Since we are now receiving plenty of film entries, we will be adjusting our policy on adding films and contact filmmakers before adding films, much like Independent Modeling will be doing with the modeling job board. That job board, too, will benefit the next version of the online film festival. It will soon have PHP databasing, our web team will learn from it, and that technology will be integrated in the next version of our online film festival (I want the 3rd generation online film festival, which will be compatible with this 2nd generation online film festival foundation, to be online by this fall, in preparation for our first Tampa film festival events next year). The databasing will enhance our online film festival and will exponentially increase our lead.
Sunday, March 29, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Five Films Added To The Online Film Festival And New Spotlight Feature Added
We added five more films to the online film festival today, raising the total number of films playing to 66. A good amount of time was spent tweaking our new spotlight feature and working on Tampa Bay Film and the Tampa Film Blog, too. As soon as we get the chance to get some screen grabs for the thumbnails, we will be adding more films from our archives. We are also reviewing new films to be added in the next week or two. The Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival will have over 100 films online in April, 2009, and at that time we will do a code refresh on the online film festival to change out the thumbnails at the top. Our goal is to have at least 250 films online by the end of the year. The film submissions are currently increasing, and we are now receiving film submissions from all over the world.
In May, 2009, we will be adding some new channels and other features, too, but we can't say what those features will be, yet. At the end of summer, we will be adding a ton of new things to the online film festival, too.
Our web development team is currently experimenting with flash and with PHP databasing. In 2010, the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival will be overhauled with some new technology, launching the third generation of our online film festival. This new online film festival, which will exist here, will have automated submission processes and the ability for filmmakers to edit their submission content (Please note that we do not want to become another Youtube, where it is hard to find indie films in the clutter. We are an online film festival, and, yes, there is a difference. At this time, we merely use sites such as Youtube as hosting for our film festival, and nothing more. What we are working on will be better than Youtube, and relevant to indie film and indie filmmakers). The film festival will be generated from a database, and eventually, we will host film submissions on our server, and our online film festival will not be dependent upon third-party hosting such as Youtube. We will also add several new features, such as our online film festival message board! Another feature will add a film-relevant subject thread to the message board when a film is added, and the film content will link to that thread for visitors to discuss the film. The automated features will add to our film library exponentially; in 2009, we expect to be up to 250 indie films playing on our online film festival. By the end of 2010, we expect there to be thousands of films playing here in twice as many channel categories, with online film festival "attendance" at least 100 times what it is now. There will be additional features added to our online film festival at the end of 2010, but these features are currently top secret, and cannot be revealed yet.
The new film spotlight feature is for our main index on the online film festival. We have replaced the "films added" text menus with a spotlight film. The spotlight film is a film that we want to showcase on the online film festival, and we select the film. The film selection for the spotlight film is independent of the Showcase channel or our normal online film festival indie film competition.
We have a virtual attendance report, too. Currently, the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival is always open, 24/7. We have visitors constantly watching films on our online film festival, and at any given time there are many people in "attendance". Our attendance numbers, and the exposure for the indie films playing on our online film festival, exceeds the combined attendance and market exposure numbers of all of the Tampa film festival events combined, and by a wide margin which continues to grow! We are now the top Tampa film festival.
Friday, March 13, 2009 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
Selecting Films And Additions For The Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival
After a three month working-vacation planning for some additions to the online film festival this year, we are finally watching films and selecting them for addition in the next few days. We are also finishing adding our archived indie films to the active online film festival. There are some cool indie films on the way, a site index refresh as we adjust some links and our main thumbnail array, and some entirely new sections to be added. One such section will be our online film workshop, which teaches aspiring filmmakers how to make films at no cost to them. Tampa film workshops? Tampa film schools? Forget them. They are not worth it. We will offer the only film school that you will ever need, and it's going to be free!
Friday, December 19, 2008 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
More Films Added To The Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival
We added five more films (making 61 now online), added four more online film festival channels, and enhanced the channel system (each film listing now has a channel link linking to its main genre channel/s). Among those channels were ones named in honor of Tampa filmmakers, showcasing their films. Tampa filmmakers Chris Woods and Rick Danford are the first to receive their own channels. As a joke (we hope), it was suggested that we name a film channel after a certain Tampa filmmaker who despises Tampa Bay Film, and we briefly considered naming our indie film "dumpster" channel after him, where all the worst films in our online film festivals will be, since he made a film festival audience suffer through the years with his lack of programming and film festivals full of awful indie films. Either that, or he actually liked promoting terrible, amateur indie films. Don't worry, however, because we won't be naming anything after him; we are not inspired to honor him with anything, even naming a worst-films channel after him.
We will be adding more films shortly, as well as finishing porting the films in archive over to the active online film festival. This should give us a library of well over one hundred films very soon.
Thursday, December 18, 2008 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
More Films Added To The Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival
We added six more films to our online film festival, including the first for our upcoming Interviews channel. We had fifty films online, and the new additions make fifty-six films total. We have at least thirty more indie films in archive waiting for screen grab images and porting to our current format. We also have a lot of content to add to the existing film selections on our online film festival, and this will take time.
The Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival will be adding many new features shortly. We will be adding a interviews channel, which was already mentioned, and other channels such as a filmmaking tutorial channel, which should help undermine those indie film workshop scams that we've been hearing about. We are also working on a film reviews database, and all of the films on our online film festival will be reviewed. This will be enhanced by our new Tampa Film Review resource (please do not confuse this with the The Tampa Film Review film festival, which is reportedly ending next month. They are not affiliated in any way, and the similarities in title are purely coincidental), which also ties into other reviews, such as Tampa film festival reviews.
We have over thirty archived indie films to add and another fifty new indie films to upload, which includes over twenty episodes of a twisted, adult comedy series. Since we will be working on converting film archives and adding more content to support the films already on our online film festival, the new films won't be added for a few weeks. Expect them to be added early in 2009. We also need to celebrate the entire Chris Woods film library, and will be adding some of his films at that time. We have been receiving a lot of film submissions over the past two months, and that is a great thing! Keep them coming, indie filmmakers!
For now, I have to do some work on the main Tampa Bay Film web site, and finish writing the Tampa film festival review for Horror & Hotties. I wish our audience happy holidays, and I am proud knowing that there are more than enough films now playing to keep everyone busy watching.
Sunday, November 30, 2008 - Tampa Online Film Festival Blog Post By Director C. A. Passinault
New Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival Blog In The Works
This is not the Tampa Film Blog, which is an other blog covering Tampa indie film. This is the official Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival Blog, covering the Tampa indie films now showing on our online film festival, indie films playing on our online film festival, indie film additions, online film festival additions and updates, and our picks for indie films that you have to see. We will also post opinions, news, and links to other Tampa film resources such as reviews and interviews. At the moment, November 30, 2008, we are adding another 15 indie films to our online film festival, so this section is not quite online yet - We don't have time to work on it, and barely had time to create a new main menu button for this section and write the copy. When it does come online, we will post retro-active blog entries from earlier updates. Stay tuned!!
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The Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival is designed to be interlinked with both Tampa Bay Film and the Tampa Film Showcase web sites. All sites are cross-linked and optimized to fully support each other. You can toggle between any of the web sites in one click from each web site's main menu for maximum convenience. The Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival web site is the official online film festival of Tampa Bay Film, The Tampa Film Showcase Monthly Film Festival and Networking Event, and the Tampa Film Showcase film festival.
Tampa Bay Film is a massive meta site consisting of eight main web sites, and hundreds of support resources. The eight main Tampa Bay Film sites are Tampa Bay Film (as the primary site, and the site from which all the others can be accessed from), Tampa Online Film Festival (the site that you are now on), Tampa Film Showcase, Tampa Film Blog, Tampa Film Review (not to be confused with The Tampa Film Review monthly film festival, which no longer exists), Tampa Film Festivals (a marketing and operating site for all the Tampa film festival properties of Tampa Bay Film and Tampa event planning company Eventi Events. Tampa Film Festivals will also cover other Tampa film festivals, referencing Tampa film festival reviews on Tampa Film Review), Tampa Film Community, and Tampa Film Conference. In the near future, all of the eight main Tampa Bay Film sites will share the same general layout and design, and will be highly interconnected so that visitors can easily move between the sites, as if it were a single, huge site!
The Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival is affiliated with, endorses, and fully supports the Tampa Bay Film web site, The Tampa Film Showcase Monthly Film Festival and Networking Event, Tampa stage production company Eventi Stage (a Passinault Entertainment Group company), Tampa event planning company Eventi Events (a Passinault Entertainment Group company), Tampa indie film production, video game development, and music label company Dream Nine Studios (a Passinault Entertainment Group company), Tampa advertising agency Eos MediaArts (a Passinault Industries LLC company), Tampa photography and design services company Aurora PhotoArts Tampa Photography and Design (a Passinault Industries LLC company), Tampa Casting (a Passinault Industries LLC company), and our sister sites. Our sister web sites include, but are not limited to, Tampa Bay Modeling, Tampa Bay Acting, Florida Modeling Career, and Tampa Talent Scams. Due to potential conflict, our complete affiliation list is available upon request from approved parties and potential business partners.
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