LARRY STRAUSS: Actor and Parkinson’s activist Larry Strauss recently invited me to say a few words at the Historical Society of Laguna Woods, where he was being honored by friends family and distinguished guests. Below are some excerpts from my speech. “Larry Strauss is a true friend and fellow artist whom I first met Larry [...]
BOSS OF ME — a webseries
BOSS OF ME – A WEB SERIES by SABI Boss of Me tells the story of a new Creative Director and Producer of Marketing and Distribution that is sent down from “corporate” to manage the newly acquired independent feature film production company Sabi Pictures. What ensues is a systematic restructuring (“Side-Shifting” as the star calls [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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