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Sawgrass Productions,
LLC, based out of Portland, Oregon, is an independent production
company formed in 2000 for the sole purpose
of producing innovative, engaging, and intelligent documentaries, films of quiet originality
which strive for a thoughtful exploration of the human experience.
Films made from a sense
of personal convinction and dedication, films made with an eye toward important issues of our time,
films made resourcefully on a shoestring budget - this is the spirit of true independence by which Sawgrass Productions continues to abide.
The founder of Sawgrass Productions, Colin Stryker, is seeing the merging of a diverse array of interests in the
formation of
this company. A graduate of Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts
with a combined degree in Drama and Computer Science, Colin seemed
pre-destined to one day combine his interests in the theatrical and the
technical. After a brief and unsatisfying stint as a
computer programmer for a large software firm in
Massachusetts, Colin returned to school to earn a Master
of Fine Arts in Film Production from the University of Miami
in 1997. There he wrote, produced, directed, and edited a
number of short films in and out of the classroom, ranging
from hazy experiments in existential apathy to affectionate
documentary profiles of some of Miami’s local eccentrics and
their parrots. The culmination of his grad school endeavors
was his thesis film, the haunting black comedy, Motospeaking,
which went on to enjoy a successful run in a number of
art-film festivals, including the Cucalorus Film Festival in
Wilmington, North Carolina, the Seattle Underground Film
Festival, and the New York Lower East Side Film
Festival.
Colin moved to Los Angeles in 1999,
where he immediately set about preparing for his ultimate goal
of producing an independent film. Having become increasingly
drawn to environmental issues, Colin came across the
very controversial issue of the Snake River dams in Eastern
Washington State. Instantly recognizing the far-reaching human
and cultural implications of the topic, Colin began, in
2000, a series of self-funded trips to the Pacific Northwest:
researching the issue, meeting with representatives of the
various interest groups involved, and developing a keen visual
sense of the place and its people. A year later, in 2001, Colin
made his final decision to move to Portland and pursue the production of a
documentary about this topic.
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