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Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - 10:09 AM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
C. A. Passinault and Tampa Filmmakers
C. A. Passinault, in a revealing
editorial article on Tampa Bay Film, describes his relationship with current
Tampa indie filmmakers. After reading this synopsis post, please check
it out by clicking on this link for C. A. Passinault and Tampa Filmmakers,
only on Tampa Bay Film.
So, you heard from so-and-so that he is not well-liked, and you don’t
want to give him a chance or find out the_truth for yourself? Do you blindly
believe everything that you hear? Consider the source when it comes to
any opinion. Passinault doesn’t like, or doesn’t approve of
what everyone else seems to like? Does that make him wrong? If he is wrong,
can you be specific about what it is that makes him wrong? You can’t
do it? Why is that? Or, is it because he simply disagrees with people
that you know, or that you know of, or goes against popular opinion? What
makes something popular opinion; the herd mentality where everyone follows
each other off of a cliff, like with Lemmings? Ask yourself: What has
that mindless herd mentality, where people do what everyone else seems
to be doing, done for Tampa indie film. Has it worked? Are Tampa filmmakers
being taken seriously, and is Tampa indie film on the map? Why not? Why
is it that people outside of the film scene, and even large film festivals,
don’t seem to take Tampa filmmakers and indie film in Tampa Bay
seriously? Why do they humor you, instead?
Why isn’t independent film in Tampa Bay respected, and treated,
as art? Why do large film festivals serve to market the Tampa Bay area
as a location for the outside competition of Tampa filmmakers, and why
don’t they seem to be genuine about supporting Tampa indie film?
Do they merely humor Tampa filmmakers for the sake of public relations,
and so they can get Tampa filmmakers to blindly support an agenda which
is not in the best interest of Tampa filmmakers? You don’t read
Tampa Bay Film and the Tampa Film Blog with an open mind, and don’t
consider that what is on the Tampa Bay Film sites have merit, good points,
and that the information is there to help people (and, if you don’t
agree with what is posted on the Tampa Film Blog, you are more than welcome
to post a response and debate. So far, no one has had the courage to publically
disagree and post a counterpoint, especially because most of those who
would disagree with Passinault are ignorant, and instead of being professional
enough to debate, they resort to slander and credibility attacks)? Are
you a mindless follower who does not think for themselves, and who lacks
courage? Are you afraid of offending people because you feel that you
can’t do anything without their help?
Don’t sell yourself short. Find out for yourself. If you are with
those who lie, cheat, and steal, you are backing the losing side, and
Passinault does not lie, cheat, and steal, despite what others accuse
him of; it also makes sense that he would not get along with those who
do so, too, as roaches generally hate the light. He does not deserve the
lies, slander, and the attempted attacks against his credibility. Granted,
it is taking him a while do get some things done, but good things take
time, and just because things are delayed does not mean that they will
not happen. Some things are worth the wait, especially when everything
out now that people have been forced to accept and deal with do not work
(although, to be fair, if it still has not happened in the next ten years,
then complaints would be justified, and it would be safe to say that it
didn’t happen. Passinault should be completely vindicated within
five years, and at that point, it is expected that these people, as their
voices and credibility become less significant, will find something else
completely pointless about him to complain about, as they are not mature
and professional enough to admit it when they are wrong).
Besides, you’ll never get anywhere following others and allowing
their opinions to become your own, anyway. Also, if you do become a part
of the problem, you will be held accountable for what you do, and you
will undermine your ability to become involved with Tampa indie film in
the future. You’ll deserve it, too. Sure, on the outside looking
in, you will be able to make films independently on your own and do what
you want to, but you will not benefit from any of the advantages that
the full use of available resources will give you; you will be handicapped,
and it will be much more difficult to succeed as a Tampa filmmaker. The
future of Tampa independent film needs leaders, innovators, and professionals
who think for themselves. It doesn’t need followers and obsessed
obscure film fans making fan films and trying to be filmmakers. Consider
this the acid test. What you decide, what you support, what you do, and
what you say will define your future in Tampa indie film. Go against Passinault
and the movement to make Tampa indie film respectable and professionally
accountable, and you might just find that being a mindless follower will
put you in a position where you are on the outside looking in, which is
the reward of failing the test.
If you don’t like him because of what someone told you, or you get
mad at his posts on the Tampa Film Blog because you feel attacked or insulted,
you need to read this. There are two sides to every story, and C. A. Passinault
did not start the war in the Tampa indie film scene. He is ending it,
although at the moment, it is an ongoing, perpetual war of opinion, criticism,
and controversy.
Change does not come easy, however, and neither does progress.
Only in the Tampa film scene can you be accused of crimes for standing
up for yourself, and calling them as they are. Only in the Tampa film
scene are baseless allegations, allegations which are completely false,
accepted as fact, and the target of the slander is guilty until proven
innocent. Passinault spent a great deal of time helping Tampa filmmakers,
and kept his opinions to himself. He was repaid when some spineless, insecure
filmmakers, who were either afraid of competing with him and wanted to
destroy his credibility, or they simply discriminated against him, repaid
his help by making up rumors about him and slandering him (don’t
believe us, if you dare. Help some of these filmmakers out, and see what
happens! If this has happened to you, YOU NEED TO SPEAK OUT about it,
and don’t let them get away with it). Completely unoriginal, some
filmmakers copied what others made up, and started passing around lies
as the_truth. This was highly unprofessional, unethical, inexcusable,
and would not be tolerated. Upon find out this was going on, C. A. Passinault
merely stood up for himself, and, determined to make sure that they were
accountable for their slander, he spoke out to help those victims who
had no voice. He also began to openly voice his opinions, and his criticisms,
as those Tampa filmmakers were doing work of amateur quality.
If you voice an opinion about some Tampa filmmakers which they do not
agree with, or give them a bad, but well-deserved, review, they won’t
accept it. They will further try to destroy your credibility, and slander
you, with the hope that people will see the bad reviews and criticism
as some sort of personal attack against them. They will accuse you of
crimes, and tell people that you are insane (that’s it, exactly.
They are perfect, and they can do no wrong. Anyone who dares to disagree
with them is insane, and has some personal agenda against them. The only
people that you are permitted to listen to are people who agree with them,
and who kiss their butts).
Slander is the new discrimination, and it undermines Tampa indie film.
Not that these insignificant, self-important idiots actually care about
Tampa indie film and making progress for Tampa independent film. Although
they will put out lots of pretense and false modesty, they are really
only out for themselves, and since they can’t compete, they lie,
cheat, and steal not to only make it, like they believe that they are
entitled to, but to sabotage prospective competitors, as well.
There have been many aspiring filmmakers which gave up and left because
they were slandered and attacked. No one will ever know how much talent
was lost in Tampa indie film over the years because of these jealous,
petty amateurs.
With such unprofessionalism in Tampa indie film there is little wonder
that there is not independent film community in Tampa Bay (a clique of
amateur filmmakers claiming that they are a film community while they
gang up on outsiders with slander and discrimination does not make it
a film community, and you can’t trust them), and that Tampa independent
film is not on the map, and is not taken seriously. You can thank the
showboating, insecure Tampa filmmakers for undermining progress in Tampa
indie film.
If this happened to you, what would you do? Would you give up and crawl
away, defeated and cowardly, or would you stand up for yourself and speak
out? Furthermore, what if you were accused of crimes and publicly mocked
for standing up for yourself? What if people who you did not know began
to dislike you because people were lying to them about you? How would
you feel? What would you do?
Whether going away or sticking up for yourself, such a situation is one
where you are damned if you do or don’t. The path of most resistance,
however, is to fight, and if you have a vested interest in Tampa indie
film, in actually helping those who deserve it, and in a future as a independent
filmmaker, you fight.
Passinault was more than equipped to fight. As a long-successful entertainment
and business ethics activist, he was the wrong person for these people
to attack. They didn’t do their homework, however, and soon discovered
that trying their shady tactics on Passinault was a mistake. A BIG mistake.
Passinault had more than enough resources to put them in their place,
and to make them accountable for what they did, and that’s exactly
what he did to them. The only thing that Passinault is guilty of is stating
the obvious.
Passinault began working on Tampa Bay Film in 2006, and the new site was
only going to be a resource for Tampa indie film and filmmakers. Tampa
Bay Film, despite claims made by detractors, was NOT set up to slam Tampa
filmmakers, or to wage any kind of fight (although it did have that capability
built in, using the same Raptor Class - The original Raptor 1, and then
the Raptor 2 - design as Tampa Bay Modeling did. Tampa Bay Modeling waged
an extremely effective war on modeling scams, and the Raptor Class site
was optimized to fight scams. So, when it was apparent that Tampa Bay
Film would also have to fight, the design of the site easily supported
it. The upcoming Dreadnought Class site design, and the name says it all,
which all of the Tampa Bay Film sites may be converted to in the next
year, are also optimized to fight scams, and to defend against them as
well, using the very latest scam-fighting concepts and technologies. The
Dreadnought Class site is also expandable, and it is designed from the
ground-up to employ a meta site concept if required, the meta site concept
pioneered by the current Super Raptor Class site design exclusively used
for the Tampa Bay Film sites. The Tampa Bay Film sites now number more
than the original eight, and eight sites is the limit of the Super Raptor,
so the site design has to be upgraded. The first Dreadnought Class sites
are scheduled to be used with the Tampa Bay Photographers and the Tampa
Bay Dancer sites, and then will be considered for use with the Tampa Bay
Film sites after an initial shakedown period of several months, where
it will be extensively tested before becoming operational. Widespread
deployment of the Dreadnought is scheduled for 2012, with most of the
current Raptor 3 Raptor Class sites scheduled to be replaced by the Dreadnoughts,
and if used for the Tampa Bay Film sites, the sites would be converted
from the Super Raptor Class sites to the cutting-edge Dreadnought Class
sites, and would be fully operational with the new design before the Reverence
Film Festival, our first film festival event, which is still scheduled
for Fall 2012). The fight was forced upon it, and the problems began from
the moment that it launched. Upon launching in January 2007, Tampa Bay
Film opened with an online film festival, and Passinault ran right into
a rival online film festival started by a Tampa filmmaker whom, in Passinault’s
observation, overheard his plans when Passinault was talking about the
development of Tampa Bay Film and the online film festival with another
filmmaker. To add insult to injury, a well-known blogger sided with the
other filmmaker, and implied in a review, and in online posts, that Passinault
ripped off the filmmaker when putting together the Tampa Bay Film online
film festival, which was incorrect (this blogger, who usually kisses butt
and cheerleads Tampa indie film, was biased, and the only negative thing
that she has ever written was about Tampa Bay Film. Fortunately, the Tampa
indie film scene has this Tampa Film Blog, which is the most relevant,
and impartial, blog for Tampa indie film).
It didn’t, though, as the other online film festival failed in a
few months, and the Tampa Bay Film online film festival became very successful.
The real imitator failed.
In late 2007, a revealing series of posts on a fanboy message board spelled
out what was going on. Passinault found himself under attack, and a group
of film fans ganged up on him and tried to attack his credibility with
slander (libel on the message boards).
In December, 2007, as Tampa Bay Film neared its first anniversary, the
Tampa indie film war began, and Passinault realized that he had nothing
to lose. He decided to tell it how it was on Tampa Bay Film, and to start
reviewing every aspect of independent film in Tampa Bay to help it improve.
So, Passinault criticized, and the film fans feebly fought back with slander.
This is what the actual war consisted of, and it went on for months, and
eventually, years, as the film fans would not admit that they were defeated.
It’s been a perpetual war, and the conflict has been going on for
3 ½ years now, with no end anytime soon (estimates put the end
of the war to around 2014 / 2015, and we are prepared to wage it as long
as it takes. Passinault tried to end it in early 2009, having achieved
victory, but was attacked again the next day. It’s been going on
ever since).
Despite claims to the contrary, Passinault has not slandered anyone. Criticism,
reviews, opinion, and parody is not slander, and those who think that
it is need to consult an attorney. Although Passinault is personally at
odds with these people because of their slander and underhanded tactics
against him, personal feelings aside, his opinions have points, and they
also have weight. Could it be that C. A. Passinault is right? History
will be the judge, and people should allow time to reveal all. Time tells
all.
The people who spread lies, rumors, and slander others will find that
their underhanded tactics will backfire when those who they have been
talking to finally meet and get to know Passinault. They will realize
that they were lied to by a bunch of amateurs who are not in the position
to help them in any way, nor are inclined to. It is then that the lairs
will find that their credibility will be destroyed. Their significance
in the Tampa indie film scene will be gone, too, and they will fade into
history as little more than a footnote in the amateur era of Tampa indie
film.
Pick your side carefully. Make sure that you know the facts. Don’t
be like the spineless filmmaker who backs the losing side, and misses
an opportunity. It is up to you to find out the_truth for yourself, and
work together to eventually end this war.
For the sake of Tampa indie film, you had better hope that the people
who undermine other filmmakers by lying, cheating, and stealing, and sabotage
Tampa indie film, don’t prevail. They haven’t made any progress
in the past, and ten years from now, Tampa indie film will not only still
be the mess of amateur work that it is now, but it won’t be on the
map. In that scenario, the general public, and others, will not only disrespect
independent filmmaking as art, and as a player, but will still take advantage
of filmmakers, advancing their agendas at the expense of Tampa filmmakers
and filmmaking in Tampa Bay. Do you think that they care? Do you think
that they see a future where Tampa indie film is a contender, and will
be taken seriously. Is what you’ve experienced to date what you
want to happen in the future? Is that what you want?
Fortunately, that scenario is more hypothetical, and dismal, than what
the future is going to be. Passinault is working hard to help filmmakers
who deserve respect and support, and is working hard to put together support
infrastructure to support the first Tampa Film Community, and to help
put Tampa indie film on the map. Passinault has a lot invested in Tampa
indie film, and although all of this work is taking time, it’s looking
better and better for independent filmmaking in Tampa Bay every day.
Believe it. Passinault and Tampa Bay Film will prevail. Just make sure
that you know what side you are on, and that you don’t sell yourself
short, or out.
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