In the continuing series of videos by SABI Pictures executive produced by Filmmaker and the Workbook Project, here's part 2 on the subject of exploring solutions:

SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah speak with Dan Mirvish, Brian Newman, Ira Deutchman and Ted Hope to further explore the solutions that are emerging for independent filmmakers – featuring a proposal for a new relationship between filmmakers and festivals as outlined by Peter Baxter at the 2010 Filmmaker Summit.

NEW BREED PARK CITY – Exploring the Solutions, Part 2 from Sabi Pictures on Vimeo.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 2/05/2010 09:17:00 AM Comments (0)

Here's the latest in the continuing series of videos by SABI Pictures executive produced by Filmmaker and the Workbook Project. The official word:

SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah speak with Ted Hope, Jon Reiss, Mynette Louie (Children of Invention) and Linas Phillips (Bass Ackwards) to explore the solutions that are emerging for independent filmmakers – featuring some of the insights and actions that came from the 2010 Filmmaker Summit.

NEW BREED PARK CITY – Exploring the Solutions, Part 1 from Sabi Pictures on Vimeo.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 2/04/2010 11:56:00 AM Comments (0)

Here's the third of our New Breed videos on new distribution ideas and paradigms at the Sundance Film Festival. The intro:

SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah move away from identifying the questions toward some possible answers that may, in fact, lead to the solutions we seek. Insights from Linas Phillips (Bass Ackwards), Habib Azar (Armless), Dan Mirvish, and Brian Newman are fleshed out with more thoughts from the pre-Filmmaker Summit roundtable.

NEW BREED PARK CITY – Seeking the Answers, Part 1 from Sabi Pictures on Vimeo.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 1/26/2010 07:29:00 PM Comments (0)

Here's the second of the New Breed videos discussing the current and future states of distribution. From the makers:

Filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah of Sabi Pictures arrive at Park City with an intent to define the questions most relevant to independent distribution options. Insights from Brian Newman, Dan Mirvish, Jon Reiss and Ira Deutchman open a path toward discovering some real solutions.

NEW BREED PARK CITY – Discovering the Questions from Sabi Pictures on Vimeo.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 1/25/2010 08:09:00 AM Comments (0)

Here is the first of the New Breed video reports realized this year in collaboration with Filmmaker and The Workbook Project. This one's an open discussion between Lance Weiler, Peter Baxter, Saskia Wilson-Brown, Brian Newman and Paul Rachman just prior to Slamdance and the Open Video Alliance's Filmmaker Summit in Park City, which starts in just a little more than an hour. If you're not in town you can stream the summit here.


NEW BREED PARK CITY – AN OPEN DISCUSSION from Sabi Pictures on Vimeo.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 1/25/2010 12:16:00 AM Comments (0)

Jamie Stuart uses the latest edition of Apple's Final Cut Studio to create the short Isn't She?..., an ode to John Hughes that follows a day in the life of Claire (Lauren Currie Lewis) as she tries to claim unemployment insurance.

WATCH short here.

Running time: 15:23

Visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

Learn more about the songs in the short at www.ediesedgwick.biz

Read parts 1 & 2 of Jamie's review of Final Cut Studio.

See how Jamie created the visual effects here.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 10/26/2009 09:13:00 PM Comments (0)

Jamie Stuart interviews documentary filmmaker Dmitry Trakovsky on his film Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky, which looks at the late auteur through his collaborators and friends. The film is currently playing at the Lincoln Center in New York as part of their Tarkovsky retrospective.

See interview here.
Running time: 4:20

Learn more about Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky here.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 7/10/2009 04:37:00 PM Comments (0)

Perhaps best known for her Oscar-winning turn in Tony Gilroy’s Michael Clayton and the long, fruitful collaboration she enjoyed with the late Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton has acted recently for David Fincher, Joel and Ethan Coen, Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr, and in Andrew Adamson’s Chronicles of Narnia franchise. Her flinty, fearless performance as an alcoholic outlaw in Erick Zonca’s cross-border thriller Julia, however, truly spotlights the impressive range and cool professionalism of this adventurous, one-of-a-kind screen actress. (She also appears in Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control, which opened last Friday.) We caught up with Swinton in New York to talk about her role in the film, why she’d always wanted to portray a resourceful drunk, and how the indie-film world has changed since her heyday with Jarman in Britain’s underground cinema. -- Damon Smith

Running time: 5:46

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 5/07/2009 12:44:00 PM Comments (0)

Here Jamie Stuart examines the New York Film Festival with a irreverent brand of narrative/reporting that features the indie stars attending the festival while weaving a twisted tale starring Stuart himself.

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# posted by Webmaster @ 10/14/2008 02:00:00 PM Comments (0)

In Jamie Stuart's final episode from his New York Film Festival series, Mickey Rourke reflects on the bad time in his career while Jamie learns the present is the best place to be.

Running time: 9:00.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (63.5MB)

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

To see all the videos in this series please go to
http://filmmakermagazine.com/nyff46.php.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 10/13/2008 09:34:00 AM Comments (0)

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the New York Film Festival, Darren Aronofsky talks about coming up with the idea for his latest film The Wrestler, using non-actors to achieve a sense of reality, and the joys and challenges of working with a talent like Mickey Rourke.

See interview here.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 10/09/2008 05:11:00 PM Comments (0)

Jamie Stuart drops a bomb in this episode from his New York Film Festival series. With special appearances by Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Clint Eastwood and many more.

Running time: 7:48.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (69M)

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

To see all the videos in this series please go to
http://filmmakermagazine.com/nyff46.php.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 10/07/2008 11:33:00 AM Comments (0)

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the New York Film Festival, Mike Leigh, a director known for his gritty "kitchen-sink realism," talks about his most light-hearted film to date, Happy-Go-Lucky.

See interview here.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 10/06/2008 04:21:00 PM Comments (0)

The first in a series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the New York Film Festival, director Antonio Campos talks about his debut feature, Afterschool, which follows a reclusive boarding-school student who, while shooting B-roll for a school project, unintentionally films two of his fellow students overdosing.

See interview here.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 10/05/2008 10:24:00 AM Comments (0)

Coin-Op Pictures's Evan Louison and David Woolner direct this short promo for Joshua Safdie's debut feature, The Pleasure of Being Robbed, which is out in limited release this weekend.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 10/02/2008 08:02:00 PM Comments (0)

Jamie Stuart continues his series of shorts from the 46th New York Film Festival with an appearance from Steven Soderbergh and a chance encounter with a woman in distress... or is she?

Approximate running time: 6:02.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (35M)

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

To see all the videos in this series please go to
http://filmmakermagazine.com/nyff46.php.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 9/29/2008 10:55:00 AM Comments (0)

In Jamie Stuart's first episode in his series of shorts on the 46th New York Film Festival, he invites us into his wild imagination while sitting in on press conferences for directors Laurent Cantet and Kelly Reichardt.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (33M)

Approximate running time: 5:53.

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

To see all the videos in this series please go to
http://filmmakermagazine.com/nyff46.php.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 9/22/2008 10:08:00 AM Comments (0)

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck sat down with us to talk about Sugar, their second feature after the Oscar-nominated Half Nelson. The writer-directors talk about finding the perfect actors to portray major-league hopefuls in the Dominican Republic as well as how they handle tandem-style directing.

To see interview, click here.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 9/18/2008 11:08:00 AM Comments (0)

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, Norwegian writer-director Bent Hamer talks about O'Horten, an absurd and sometimes sad comedy that meditates on loneliness and aging. In this interview, he talks about the importance of humor, the beauty of train travel and the freedom of shooting your own script.

To see interview, click here.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 9/18/2008 11:03:00 AM Comments (0)

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, Mabrouk El Mechri's new film, JCVD, stars America's onetime favorite action hero, Jean-Claude Van Damme, playing a new kind of role: himself.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 9/17/2008 10:18:00 AM Comments (0)

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, New York filmmaker, Ramin Bahrani, talks about his third feature film, Goodbye Solo, the story of a cab driver trying to stop one of his passengers from taking his own life.

To see interview, click here.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 9/16/2008 03:02:00 PM Comments (0)

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, French writer-director Arnaud Desplechin talks about his sprawling new fable of family dysfunction, A Christmas Tale.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 9/15/2008 06:46:00 PM Comments (0)

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, Matteo Garrone talks about his unique gangster film Gomorra and the dangers of making a movie about an active crime organization.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 9/15/2008 02:17:00 PM Comments (0)

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, Matt Aselton talks about his debut feature film, Gigantic, about a young mattress salesman with dreams of adopting an Asian baby.

To see interview, click here.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 9/12/2008 05:25:00 PM Comments (0)

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, Genova director Michael Winterbottom and star Colin Firth talk about this story of an Englishman raising two daughters in the wake of his wife's accidental death.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 9/12/2008 01:29:00 PM Comments (0)

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, Nik Fackler sat down to talk about his debut feature film, Lovely, Still, a tale of a winter romance about an elderly bachelor who returns home one day to find a beautiful woman sitting in his house.

To see interview, click here.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 9/11/2008 06:21:00 PM Comments (0)

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, Ari Folman talks about his film, Waltz With Bashir, an animated documentary/fiction hybrid based on the director's harrowing personal experiences as a young Israeli soldier caught up in the hostilities with Lebanon in the early '80s.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 9/10/2008 06:43:00 PM Comments (0)

The first in a series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the Toronto International Film Festival, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, director of Soul Power, talks about assembling a stand-alone film from unedited footage of the Zaire '74 music festival shot by Paul Goldsmith and Albert Maysles, among others, for Leon Gast's When We Were Kings.

To see interview, click here.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 9/08/2008 06:46:00 PM Comments (0)

We've once again asked Jamie Stuart to cover the Sundance Film Festival with his unique brand of filmmaking and create a short that encompasses the people he meets, his creative eye and basically whatever pops up in his head. This year's film includes George A. Romero, Ellen Kuras, Stacy Peralta and strange text messages.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (73M)

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 1/27/2008 10:50:00 PM Comments (0)

The nominees for the Gotham Awards' Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You will be screening Friday, Nov. 16 - Monday, Nov. 19 at The Museum of Modern Art. Here's a look at this year's nominees. The winner, selected by Filmmaker and MoMA's dept. of film, will be announced at the Gotham Awards Nov. 27. Click here for more on the screenings.

Approximate running time: 5:10.

Download here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link.

To learn more about the films, go to their websites:
Off The Grid: Like on the Mesa
Frownland
Mississippi Chicken
August The First
Loren Cass

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 11/08/2007 10:52:00 AM Comments (0)

In Jamie Stuart's final episode of his shorts series from the New York Film Festival, things have gotten a little out of hand for our video reporter. But he manages to get an interview with John Landis, whose documentary Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project premiered at the fest.

Approximate running time: 4:01.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (26M)

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 10/22/2007 10:08:00 AM Comments (0)

In the Fall '07 issue of Filmmaker Jamie Stuart reviews the Pansonic AG-HPX500P. Here's some footage he shot with the camera.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (28M)

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

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# posted by Webmaster @ 10/18/2007 11:10:00 PM Comments (0)

In Jamie Stuart's third installment of his shorts series from the New York Film Festival Todd Haynes explains his filmmaking methods and the motivations behind his latest film, I'm Not There.

Approximate running time: 4:33.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (58M)

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

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# posted by Webmaster @ 10/10/2007 05:53:00 PM Comments (0)

The stars come out in Jamie Stuart's second installment of his shorts series from the New York Film Festival. In this episode Noah Baumbach and Nicole Kidman discuss Margot at the Wedding while Sidney Lumet makes a declaration.

Approximate running time: 4:20.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (38M)

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 10/07/2007 01:59:00 PM Comments (0)

Filmmaker is very happy to be sponsoring gumshoe director/journalist Jamie Stuart's annual take on the New York Film Festival this year. Here's his first piece: Stuart... with music; Schwartzman... without mustache; Anderson... sans sous-titres.

Approximate running time: 3:49.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (26M)

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

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# posted by Webmaster @ 10/03/2007 01:09:00 PM Comments (0)

Jamie Stuart's newest short created for Filmmaker as a test drive of Apple's new Final Cut Studio 2.

Approximate running time: 4:24.

Click here to read Jamie's review of Final Cut Studio 2.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (50M)

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

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# posted by Webmaster @ 8/08/2007 11:43:00 AM Comments (0)

Jamie Stuart takes on the Sundance Film Festival in his latest short.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link.

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

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# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 1/29/2007 12:26:00 PM Comments (0)