"CRACK COCAINE" - National Geographic Channel's "Drugs, Inc." series.
Greg Scott spent the first half of last January serving as Associate Producer of the "Crack" episode in the "Drugs, Inc." series. Greg was responsible for establishing and building the infrastructure to capture the Chicago-based stories in this segment. The year started with a sizzle!
"KETAMINE" - National Geographic Channel's "Drugs, Inc." Series
Greg Scott, President and CEO of Sawbuck Productions, spent February of 2011 on the "ketamine circuit." As a freelance Producer, Greg worked with Director George Hughes (Wall to Wall Media, Ltd.) to create a one-hour feature documentary for National Geographic's "Drugs, Inc." series. Here is the product of their work -- from Madison, Wisconsin to Chennai, India to Toronto, Canada -- a globe-circling adventure that explores the multi-layered world of ketamine, one of the world's most powerful disassociative anasthetics.
The Family at 1312
You may recall that our 2009 short (28m) film, "The Family at 1312," screened in June 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." We're very proud of our STIFFY! And now we're very excited about our recent procurement of a distribution channel. More details to come. Stay tuned!
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 seventh anniversary, Sawbuck has enjoyed a storied history to date. We've been involved in the production of several dozen short documentaries and a half-dozen feature-length pictures. Public radio documentaries helped us grow from a small, indie enterprise to an award-winning national production company. Our "Brickyard" series in particular has garnered several national and local awards for journalism. Check out www.chicagopublicradio.org ... search for "Greg Scott" ... and then listen, please!
But our most prominent successes have happened on the cable channel scene. Our work with National Geographic's "Drugs, Inc." series has stemmed from the fact that very few other production companies are as embedded in the drug economy as Sawbuck is. We believe that our contributions to the Drugs, Inc. series underscores the value we bring to mass media representations of drugs and addiction.
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 on the set of Sawbuck's new film "Hody's Masterpiece"
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.
