Welcome to Sabot Productions.Sabot's strength lies in understanding the creative process of film at all levels. To this end, we maintain a variety of different relationships with various individuals and companies within the film industry, utilizing their diverse skills and expertise to bring projects to fruition and their successful conclusion. This allows us to customize our approach to each project as needs require. It also enables us to approach a variety of budget models and handle them as tier requirements dictate.
We are currently developing a number of in house and outside partnered projects for feature film, so we are no longer looking at queries. Any queries we do look at are from industry referrals only, NO EXCEPTIONS. Our current in house projects are Drama, Thriller, Horror and SciFi based.
Sabot works under the auspices of the Writer's Guild of Canada Independent Production Agreement 2003-2005.
You can read the agreement part 1, part 2.
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It's been a busy year for Steve Abbott and Sabot Productions. "Every Second Counts," was optioned to Nathaniel Warsh at Macheby Pictures. Renamed, "Reliance," It's very close to being green lit with production hoping to start in the last quarter of 2010. Macheby Pictures are also in the process of optioning, "The Temple," a feature length film adaptation of an HP Lovecraft short story of the same name, production is expected to commence in the second quarter of 2010.
Sabot associate produced the film, "Night Vision," a dark little thriller showing the dark side of reality TV and an adoring fan. You can view some stills from the film here. Following, "Night Vision," we were involved in a SciFi / Horror / Thriller with Macheby's partner company, Incident Pictures. The feature film is currently in Post Production.
Sabot helped out a little on the cusp of 2009 with Ardent Pictures first drama feature, "The Devil's Tail," also as an Associate Producer. The Devil's Tail is currently doing the Festival circuit to very favorable reviews. So far it's taken a Bronze Palm at The Mexico Film Festival and it won an Audience award at the Moving Pictures Festival in Toronto.
http://www.thedevilstailmovie.com/the-film/trailer/
It was extremely well received at the 8th annual Boston Latino International Film Festival, Chris and Sam have blogged about it here and the New England Film Junkie has their article about it here.
Steve's Canadian millitary drama feature set in Afghanistan written for Faranj Productions now has a production team in place and is working towards that elusive green light.
Projects Past:
Twisted Cow Productions Inc. released, "Snapped," the grisly little horror Steve rewrote for them in 2006. Distribution is through Velocity Home Entertainment. "Snapped" can be purchased through Amazon.com.
Check out some production stills from, "Snapped".
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Wishbone Entertainment optioned, "Darkness," Steve's vampire story with a decidedly biotech twist. They liked it so much they commisioned him to write, "Killers," a deadly tale of cat and mouse between a hitman and a serial killer.
"The Provider," was our first short film. We shot it in black and white on a Canon GL1. It was written by Steve Abbott and directed by Bob Fugger. If you like the film, Sabot Productions will send you a copy for the cost of postage.
"The Terrible Old Man." is an H.P. Lovecraft adaptation written by Steve Abbott. TOM earned Steve a Leo nomination in the, "Best Short Drama Screenwriter," category.
Read a review of, "The Terrible Old Man." HERE, HERE also HERE,
To purchase a copy of, "The Terrible Old Man," on VHS in Canada please go to Domino Films.
Click the Mag link above to find out the latest way to get your hands on, "The Terrible Old Man." or go directly to the order page at Lurker films by clicking the, "Rough Magik," DVD cover.
No list could be complete without mentioning the madmen (very capable and dedicated madmen) of Science Friction, a talented duo of musicians who really know how to pull your cohones out of the fire when all looks like it is lost. They provided scoring for Bristlecone Films TNT presentation of, "Faces of Evil." See a clip from, "The Terrible Old Man," with their music here 
Currently they are providing the score for Rob Feldman's animated series, "The Perils of Dr. Shroud." Remember a film without music is only half a film. Read more about the guys in a recent newspaper article here. Or you can visit them at MySpace. Read a recent interview with the guys on Indywood.co.uk here.
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Sabot also supports the Canadian Filmmakers Festival and its mandate to promote Canadian film in all of it's forms.
Reel West Magazine has been kind enough to write about our various exploits in BC.
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