A Short Film About Letting Go: World Premiere – a sabi pictures memoir A Short Film About Letting Go world premiered at the Dances With Films 2010 festival in Los Angeles to a crowded audience gathered for the Fusion Shorts program at Laemmle’s Sunset 5 theater in Hollywood. This film has achieved beyond our expectations [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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