Our most recently completed short film, "The Family at 1312," will be screening on June 6, 2009 at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival (STIFF). To the right you see the STIFF laurels, a distinction that the festival's jury bestowed for "grittiest documentary." If you're in the Seattle area, look us up. Come out for the screening Saturday night. We're very proud of our STIFFY and would like to share our excitement with you ....
Sawbuck Productions, Inc. creates and disseminates multiple media
geared toward documenting the people, places, and things that operate
"in the margin" and "on the fringes." We dig deeply into the nooks and
crannies of society where we meet people whose lives become gross
distortions and abusive caricatures in the mainstream media.
Now
approaching its third anniversary, Sawbuck enjoys a solid working
relationship with DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. Sawbuck's
executive director, Greg Scott, is an associate professor of sociology
at DePaul. Through its collaboration with DePaul, Sawbuck has
developed, produced, and/or assisted with several documentary film and
radio projects.
Most
of Sawbuck's endeavors deal directly or indirectly with social justice
issues, usually in relation to the illicit drug economy. Our
documentaries typically examine the social, economic, and cultural
milieu of heroin addicts, crack smokers, prostitutes, unhoused persons,
and other marginalized and dispossessed persons.
Sawbuck
documentaries strive to inform the audience, to challenge preconceived
notions and stereotypes, and generally to introduce new insights to
public dialogue concerning privilege and the distribution of resources
in society.
Here at Sawbuck we invest our lives in the
business of constructing critical multi-media representations of social
life and in the fostering of public debate surrounding these issues.
All Sawbuck staff work full-time jobs elsewhere. We have no payroll, we
generate no monetary profit. For us, the work is the pay; and the
profits come in many different, more substantial and lasting forms.
Thanks for stopping by. Make yourself comfortable and stay a while. You won't regret it.
Greg convincing himself to keep his day job
Joe Shriner, a devoted Sawbuckian, a wanderer at heart
On this website you will find film and audio clips, photographs, essays, and blogs. These matierlas derive from thousands of hours' worth of systematic interaction with Chicago's informal economy, or its "seedy underbelly" as the mass media sometimes call it. Various members of the Sawbuck team share their experiences and their work with you. We encourage your feedback and will consider all input very seriously. Please take time to navigate the site, open yourself to the world as Sawbuck sees it, and then become a fellow Sawbuckian.
You'll find many ways to become a fellow Sawbuckian. As a non-profit organization, we depend upon the good will of concerned people like you. Making a monetary donation is just one way to join our community. Contributing to our discussion boards, sending us email messages, passing word of this site along to others, visiting and patronizing our associates whose websites appear as links ... these are all ways that you can help us keep doing what we do. Whatever you do to support the realization of Sawbuck's vision, we appreciate it.
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