Sawbuck Productions, Inc. is a small non-profit alternative multi-media production and post-production company that focuses on the use of film, video, photography, and sound to inspire social change. Founded in 2005 by Dr. Greg Scott (Associate Professor of Sociology at DePaul University in Chicago), Sawbuck has created more than a dozen short documentary films, which have circulated film festival circuits globally. In addition, Sawbuck has spent the past five years working on a feature-length documentary concerning an outdoor encampment of largely homeless heroin injectors, crack smokers, prostitutes, thieves, and exiled gang members on Chicago's west side. The bulk of Sawbuck's work revolves around documenting--through observational cinema (or "cinema direct" as the Maysles called it) the lives of those who dwell at the outermost fringes of society, not for the purpose of shining a blinding light on them but in order to demonstrate how their lives reflect and refract the so-called "mainstream." Greg also produces his own medium- and long-form audio documentaries for the Eight Forty-Eight program on Chicago Public Radio (91.5FM, WBEZ).