The NEW BREED Park City series continues. 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. VIDEO after the jump.

The NEW BREED series continues as 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.

VIDEO after the jump.

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.

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 …

The WorkBook Project has joined forces with Filmmaker Magazine to produce a number of daily videos from Park City. The following discussion focuses on the need for a alternative network connecting filmmakers and audiences. Featuring: Peter Baxter, Saskia Wilson-Brown, Brian Newman, Paul Rachman and Lance Weiler.

Filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah of Sabi Pictures arrive at Park City with an intent to define the questions most relevant …

By Zak Forsman – The last two years have been an extraordinary education. I often look back at the development process for HEART OF NOW and WHITE KNUCKLES and imagine what choices we at SABI would have made if we were the filmmakers we are today. With a new decade upon us and the promise of a community-defining year ahead of us, it is time to declare some …

The WBP network will be growing in the coming months as we bring on additional contributors and finalize a new site design. The following are some recent posts by contributors.

Over at the New Breed

The SABI Festival Strategy
by Zak Forsman
STEP ZERO: ASK YOURSELF WHY
Be honest with yourself and ask why you want to do this. It will be a financial, emotional and physical drain to be sure. So you must define …

By Gary King For background history on the film project – visit my previous New Breed Article: “A LOVELY Filmmaking Process”

Having achieved picture lock with WHAT’S UP LOVELY, I feel that I am now able to fully cover the details of the decision-making process during the editing stage — and how engaging with test audiences affected its final outcome. Mind you, we are still in post-production as of this …

Brian McTear reports: Today, it’s plainly obvious that the music industry is in a terrible predicament; but the only solutions we hear have to do with saving “business”. Those of us who care about artists can only hope that once business is saved, this will trickle down to them somehow… eventually.
It’s now clear that Spotify itself, the great hope of the industry, has exactly this approach: They’ve promised large …

This past weekend at DIY DAYS Philadelphia there was a panel about Changes in Creative Collaboration. In an effort to extend the conversation NEW BREED editor Zak Forsman reached out to a number of the NEW BREED contributors and asked them to share their thoughts on the subject of creative collaboration.
Here’s the first in a string of videos from the NEW BREED filmmakers. Make sure to check out vids …

Over at the NEW BREED there is a discussion brewing about Managing Expectations on the Festival Circuit. Various NB filmmakers weigh-in on the topic by sharing some of their experiences and opinions around the value of festivals. Last month Zak Forsman (see recent Q&A for more details on Zak) headed to SXSW. He brought along his camera.

Related:
Is There A “Too Many” (When It Comes To Film Festivals)?
How I Learned to …

Zach Forsman is a writer/director/producer/editor. Zak and his creative team Sabi are prolific. They are currently working on a number of shorts and a few feature films (White Knuckles, Eloquent Graffiti, Heart of Now). Strong proponents of DIY filmmaking; Sabi’s work is organic, stylized and improvised.

Zak is also the editor of the New Breed. If you haven’t checked out the new extension of the WBP make sure to pay a …

Mike Ambs reports – The six months it took me to import and tag the more than a 100 hours of footage – the main bulk of the film – was fairly easy for me to keep a pace with. It was “easy” because there was a solid goal: x number of tapes. It was “easy” because my progress was obvious: I would log the number of tapes imported by …

Zeke Zelker’s latest film InSearchOf won the first edition of From Here to Awesome last fall. Recently, Zeke released his film in a number of college markets and took in more than 12,000 from a single screen. Over the next six months Zeke and his team will take the film to over 80 college and universities.

What’s your background?
I grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania where my summers were spent playing in …

Mike Ambs reports – When Amanda first posted about us (mainly me) being concerned with our lack-luster number of RSS subscribers – ie: less than 5,000 – It came across as a “why do our numbers suck” post, and that’s a fine question for us to be asking, our numbers do need improving just in a general sense.

But I’m less concerned with specifically the RSS stats, and more with our …

Todd Sklar reports – I’m just now getting caught up on life post-tour, so I’m gonna start this post off with a sincere apology for the lack of participation on my behalf re; this group blog. Not sure how many readers there are out there, nor how many of them give a fuck whether or not I’m posting material, but on the off-chance that a handful do, I wanted to …

By Jenny Abel – This post will begin with a brief disclaimer: I have made only one film. I had no idea what I was doing when I started working on this film. I’m not even sure if I’ll ever make another film because I’ve been working on the same film for ten years. If there is a New Breed geriatric ward, perhaps I should be wheeled over there …

Zak Forsman reports -
I’ve just released a trailer for HEART OF NOW and wanted to share the things I’ve learned about this little marketing niche. What I’m doing is taking the lessons of the commercial world and applying them to my indie film work. So these are the conventions, the general “rules”. And yes, they are just waiting for someone like you to come along and break them!
Trailers can be …

The NEW BREED is expanding with a new blog. But wait there’s much more. We’re pleased to announce that Zak Forsman (IFHY, Heart of Now) will be leading a group of merry DIY filmmakers as they share their experiences from script to screen and beyond. The focus of NEW BREED is to pull back the curtain and share the struggle of what it takes to get work out into the …

An entertaining look at what it takes to get your work to an audience. “Four Films, Six Dudes and One Van” As the tour hits San Francisco, the boys hit the streets harder than ever in an attempt to pack a full house. They look everywhere for a heart, a hand to hold on to, and a face of somebody who needs you. Everywhere Rennie looks, he just finds trouble. …

4 films, 35 cities, 1 van – welcome to the Rangelife DIY tour. We catch up with the boys in Santa Fe, where they prank Steven Seagall, sing karaoke, and get beer sprayed in their faces. Actually just Brian on that last one. WATCH THE VIDEO

We’re introduced to the dudes as the fall tour kicks off in Columbia, MO, where we weather sellout screenings, impromptu parades, and travel delays before heading west.

Current Tour Schedule:
First Leg
Sep 19 – Sep 21
Columbia, MO
Oct 1 – Oct 6
Santa Fe, NM
Oct 7
Alburqueque, NM …

Basically, a week after returning from a 3-month jaunt to Southeast Asia, David Austin asked me to write a screenplay that we could shoot in his house. He was preparing to sell an old mansion that he had been living in that was once the home of Samuel Goldwyn. All week I had been attempting to see a revival screening of Luis Bunuel’s Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie …

Comrades,
My name is Todd and I made a film last year called Box Elder. I actually made it twice technically (we re-shot the entire thing after getting 80% of it in the can), but that’s a story for another blog. We’re here today to talk about this distribution tour we’re about to embark on, and first, a little bit more on the film that started it last spring.

Box Elder …

In a matter of days we’ll be welcoming a new blog to the WBP network. The NEW BREED centers on projects in various parts of the creation process. From the script phase to screen and everything in between NEW BREED will focus on all things DIY. Told from the trenches by filmmakers who in the throws of it.
Stay tuned…