Our 2009 short 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 would like to share our excitement with you ... so we're now working to get some distribution of "Family" either through CreateSpace or YouTube Rentals, the new online digital content download service. Sawbuck's most recently completed film, "Matrimony," is undergoing re-cutting for release in spring 2010 .... 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 fourth 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 have occupied a good deal of our time over the past couple of years (they're like movies without the images!). In fact, our "Brickyard" series has garnered several national and local awards for journalism. Check out www.chicagopublicradio.org ... search for "Greg Scott" ... and then listen, please!
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.
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