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NEWS 03/21/09 - Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional networking event series in 2011?

Work on the Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional networking event series is proceeding, but we are waiting for support infrastructure to be ready, and are in need of some special Tampa indie films to be completed. The good news is that this will give us time to perfect some details. In December 2008, the Tampa Film Showcase web site was given a much-needed overhaul, and was retrofitted with a new Raptor Class site, with advanced Raptor 3 specifications, so that this site would be fully compatible with both Tampa Bay Film and the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival web sites, which the Tampa Film Showcase web site is interconnected with. Production work for the the Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional networking event series changed hands, too, from Eventi Events to Eventi Stage (currently, the Eventi Stage web site is being built, and should be operational in spring, 2009). There are other changes, too. The Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional networking event series branding will now only be used for the monthly Tampa film festival series, and the annual Tampa film festival version will be enhanced and given an entirely different branding name. The Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional networking event series will still feed into this new annual film festival, and formatting already decided will not change too much, although more features will be added to the annual Tampa film festival, which will make it a little different than the Tampa Film Showcase. The annual Tampa film festival, name TBA, will be ONE of THREE different Tampa film festival properties of Eventi Stage and Tampa Bay Film. All three Tampa film festival properties, which will be series, will all be interconnected with each other and will fully support the others. The Tampa Film Showcase will be the only monthly Tampa film festival, and the others will be annual Tampa film festivals held only once a year (the annual Tampa film festival which the Tampa Film Showcase directly feeds into will be early in the year, from January to March. The other Tampa film festival, a more stand-alone property, will be in the fall, between September and November. Dates are not locked yet because they still have to be determined). There are rumors of a fourth Tampa film festival property in development, and if it exists, it will be a highly secret project. If it exists, the rumors indicate that it will be a small Tampa film festival. This fourth Tampa film festival property may be administered and produced by Eventi Events, while the other three would be by Eventi Stage (there are legal and licensing reasons for the two companies, and why certain Tampa film festival properties would be handled by certain companies, which are much to extensive to explore here).

Currently, The Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional networking event series would run for eleven Tampa film festival events annually after it debuts. The twelfth month would be used for the larger annual Tampa film festival which the Tampa Film Showcase will directly feed into. It is still undecided whether or not this annual schedule would be scaled back to ten Tampa Film Showcase film festival events per year to accommodate the other annual Tampa film festival property, since the same event planning staff would work each film festival property, and it may be too much to do two film festivals in a month. At this time, the Tampa Film Showcase monthly film festival and professional networking event series is tentatively scheduled to debut in January, 2011, following the debut of the stand-alone annual Tampa film festival property in the fall of 2010 (this would be the third annual film festival property, and not the other annual Tampa film festival property which the Tampa Film Showcase directly feeds into- please note the time frame of the fall season).

There are more dynamics to all of this, but they are classified as trade secrets, and cannot be disclosed at this time. Even the Tampa Film Showcase has classified components, and the trade secrets will not be revealed on this web sites or published until after the film festival series debuts. Even then, some details will remain secrets (especially if that mysterious, rumored fourth Tampa film festival property exists).

NEWS 09/15/08 - Tampa Film Showcase Next Year.

Both the annual and the monthly versions of the Tampa Film Showcase Tampa Film Festival are tentatively scheduled to debut next year. We've been working on some truly revolutionary features and groundbreaking technology. It is our intention to take our time and to do this right, and we will launch this when we are ready. When the Tampa Film Showcase finally debuts and begins regular monthly Tampa film festivals, we will set a high standard which will be several years ahead of anything ever done in the Tampa indie film market in every way. Although we expect others to struggle to compete and to attempt to steal from us and to copy us, this will backfire for their credibility because everyone will know that we are the new standard in Tampa Film Festivals. Everyone will know the true source os the ideas that they steal.

Please be patient. The Tampa indie film market only has to put up with the amateur Tampa indie film clique a little while longer. The professionals are coming, and we will forever change and revolutionize the Tampa indie film market while taking business away from the amateurs. Good things are coming for those who wait for them and deserve those good things.

NEWS 05/07/08 - Film Festival Format Finalized.

Yesterday, the format of the monthly and the annual versions of the Tampa Film Showcase was finalized. It has been decided to keep the branding for both event packages the same, but with subtitles added. The Tampa Film Showcase will be developed as an annual film festival, and this will benefit the monthly series. The monthly film festival series will be the same as the annual film festival, except it will be scaled back. Keep in mind that scaled back does not mean that features will be stripped out, and that the monthly series will not be a substandard version of the large annual festival. Both versions will have identical formatting, with a few minor differences. There will be 11 monthly film festivals and 1 annual film festival per year. The annual Tampa Film Showcase film festival will be an extended version showing feature-length films instead of the short films shown at the monthly version. Both versions will have voting and awards ceremonies, although the annual version will be the only one with awards trophies. Both versions will include networking and some other advanced features which we cannot disclose yet. As for pricing, that has not been finalized yet, although the monthly film festivals will have free admission. Submission prices? Stay tuned. The annual film festival may have a fee to submit films. The monthly film festivals, which do not show feature films and only show shorts, may not. Keep in mind that the formats would only differ in scale, although the pricing and other details with both formats do make the planning phase a bit more complex.

The Tampa Film Showcase will not go the elitist route. We have no interest in attracting Hollywood and so-called "celebrities" to the Tampa Bay area. We have no interest in pretension and charging high rates for submission and admission, and one reason that other film festivals charge too much is because of the bloated overhead of paying celebrities to headline their events, and because they spread their events over several days and several venues. The Hollywood and celebrity angle would only serve to upstage the independent filmmakers and talent involved, and we would like to focus on them instead. We would also like to focus on attracting distributors and introducing film marketing, distribution, and sales solutions for the indie filmmaking community. We don't want to be like the other film festivals. We're different. We are more effective. We aspire to make a difference, and will do it without the shady politics and the pretension. Many of the people currently involved with film festivals and the Tampa indie film scene will not be invited, and it is because we have determined that they are not good for the progress of indie film in the Tampa Bay region. Sure, they may claim charity, that they are working to build a productive indie film community, and that they only want to help, but words are cheap. We only have to look at their track record and what they are really doing, and their hidden motivation, and it become obvious that they are the reason that there is no professional Tampa indie film community and that there has been little progress over the years. We will not allow the self-serving, self-proclaimed indie film people to become involved with us. It is time for change. It is time for real professionals to get involved. The party is over, and so are the shady, self-serving politics. They can do their indie film workshops and low-rent amateur film festivals, and become forgotten relics of the dark age of the Tampa indie film scene. We are going to make a difference and inspire change. It is time to get serious!

Currently, it is planned to kick off the Tampa Film Showcase with the annual film festival in late 2008 or early 2009. Since the annual film festival requires a bit of a lead time, the only reason that it would be held in 2009 would be because of that lead time. The film festival series and the annual film festival would be ready to go in the fall of 2008.

NEWS 04/01/08 - Tampa Film Showcase Venue Selected?

Rumor has it that the venue for the Tampa Film Showcase is about to be selected. We don't know many details yet, but we are pretty sure that it won't be in Ybor City. Tampa Film Showcase film festival director C. A. Passinault recently confirmed that the schedule would be selected once the venue is locked and the budget is completed. We are hearing once the festival debuts (November 7? September 5? There are pros and cons to both dates, but this is purely speculation on our part), the Tampa film festival series will occur on a Friday evening once a month. Passinault has also announced the selection of an indie film jury and review team, and that the Tampa Film Showcase will directly lead into a larger annual film festival (title and format to be announced), and that both film festivals will be directly affiliated if the annual festival is not an outright larger version of the Tampa Film Showcase.

How does the Tampa Film Showcase tie in with the Tampa Bay Film web site? We know, but it is too early to tell. We can only say that the details are only one incredible part of the brilliant package. New standards will be set in the Tampa indie film community, a different set of (higher) expectations will emerge, and once the smart professionals, which would be us, start making a difference, everything will change. Think you know indie film and how to work indie film? Think again. We are going to show you better things and some radical, and effective, ideas. It's time to leave what's out there now in the ghetto. We all need to step up to a professional level where Tampa indie film really does inspire respect!

NEWS 01/16/08 - Event Director C. A. Passinault Confirms Tampa Film Festival Series.

Tampa Film Showcase film festival director C. A. Passinault today confirmed the ongoing development of the film festival and professional networking series, stating that the Tampa Film Showcase would debut in late 2008. Passinault indicated that the Tampa Film Showcase is designed to be the new standard in the Tampa Bay market, and that the Tampa Film Showcase, which will be held monthly, is designed to compete with the larger annual film festivals as well as smaller monthly and quarterly held film festivals.
“The Tampa Bay market needs this.” Passinault stated, “We are convinced that there is a strong demand for a professional film festival series in the Tampa Bay market, and it is our intention to set the standard and become leaders in the Tampa indie film community, as well as assist the formation of a professional indie film community. Currently, there is no professional indie film community in Tampa Bay, and this is going to change.”
Passinault cited the overwhelming success of the Tampa Bay Film web site and the Tampa Bay Film online film festival as an indicator of what was to come. He pointed out the Tampa Bay Film was designed from it’s conception to work with the Tampa Film Showcase film festival series, and that both productions would work together.
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