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 [...]
Interdependent Casting at Sabi Pictures
It’s hard to argue against the fact that the process of making a worthwhile interdependent art film begins in the audition. When it comes to the actors that will ultimately play the part for a film by Sabi – we hope that not a moment is wasted for either the filmmaker or the cast, and [...]
Interdependent Filmmaking
White Knuckles was born out of a deep desire to explore a story with a group of artists through the collaborative medium of film – and to explore it as much as possible while the story is happening – while it’s on its feet in production – while the characters fully inhabit the actors. The [...]
Technology is changing new media – where is this going?
Let’s get this started at the top… Here’s a recent development (there’s been a lot lately – has everyone noticed?) Google vs … Microsoft? By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer Unable to topple Google Inc. on its own, Microsoft Corp. is trying to force crippled rival Yahoo Inc. into a shotgun marriage, with a wager [...]
Evolving Rules of Low-Budget Filmmaking
Every Producer, Director, Crew member, Actor and artist has their own rules for how they make a film, whether it’s a short, music video, or indie feature film. In an effort to compile and share these snack-sized tidbits of Wisdom, please respond with your own tips for other Filmmakers like you that are simply trying [...]
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