INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF LOS ANGELES DUST REQUEST: A WORLD PREMIERE A SABI PICTURES MEMOIR by Kevin K. Shah Starring Kevin K. Shah, Surya Chandra & Zak Forsman WHY THE INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF LOS ANGELES? In my humble opinion, there is a very short list of second tier film festivals that pay careful and [...]
INDIE THRILLERS: LIKES AND DISLIKES
INDIE THRILLERS: 3 Things you Likes about Thrillers and 3 Things you Dislike. As we’re continuing to develop Falling Rock at Sabi Pictures, we’re looking to our fans and audiences for creative input and interaction, in hopes to better guide the creative team as we embark together across multiple media platforms to tell this story. [...]
SXSW Panel – Voting has opened.
Please take a moment to vote for my panel at SXSW 2010: LINK: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/2426 Nano-budget Interdependent Filmmaking: The New Sustainable Cinema Category: Acting, Digital Filmmaking, Marketing / PR / Publicity, New Technology / Next Generation, Production Organizer: Kevin Shah, sabi pictures Questions: 1. What does it mean [...]
CHANGES IN THE COLLABORATIVE NATURE OF CINEMA
I wrote this in response to a recent tweet from Filmmaker Magazine editor Scott Macaulay, after our NEW BREED panel on ‘Creative Collaboration’ at DIY DAYS Philadelphia. He wrote re: our panel on creative collaboration: “I didn’t ask panelists to define it. Isn’t all filmmaking collab? What’s diff now?” The following is to continue the [...]
SABI PICTURES “CREATIVE COLLABORATION” STRATEGIES
SABI PICTURES “CREATIVE COLLABORATION” STRATEGIES 1. Dramatic Improvisation: The nature of the director’s relationship with the actors involves collaboration when going ‘off-script’. The sabi producer and director creates an atmosphere where ‘creative collaboration’ is encouraged, fostered, and executed in a productive way. On our sets, we strive to make the cast feel “safe” [...]
Sverige (Sweden): A New Series of Films by Sabi Pictures
Sabi Pictures is pleased to announce the production of ten new films in Sweden, from director J. Erik Reese. Sverige: a series of short films by Sabi Pictures Sabi Pictures is excited to announce the start on production of a new series overseas slated for completion in 2009. From the creative team that brought you [...]
2009 marks debut of “Interdependent Cinema” magazine
Interdependent Cinema – An electronic Magazine / Blog / Print publication by Sabi Today I had a terrific discussion with Sabi producer Daniel J. Carmody about the concept for a new Magazine/Blog for the modern indie filmmaker that understands/represents the true “interdependent” nature of collaboration on an ‘indepdendent’ film (and especially for those filmmakers that [...]
Directing Improv: Discarding the Words; Finding a Voice
Understandably, many actors are simply uncomfortable with the idea of using your own words for the character, but what should be happening is that the director and the actor are together finding the character’s voice. The Screenplay: Discarding the Words for Dramatic Improvisation in Interdependent Films. Freeing oneself from the confines of the words [...]
Directing Improvisation in Interdependent Films.
Directing Improvisation in Interdependent Films. With excerpts from: “Interdependent Filmmaking: Dramatic Improvisation in White Knuckles – a film by sabi” “In a lot of ways the director and the actor when working with improvisation have to form a relationship like a family. This is why there is such a stress on the word “Interdependent” in our [...]
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