Reflections on a paranoid childhood manifest themselves in images of a one-eyed alien Jesus with an exposed brain, a possessed teenager whose neck turns 180 degrees and morphs into a goat’s head against a pentagram, and constant reappearances of hamburgers and skulls in From Burger It Came, an inventive animated short film from Dominic Bisignano.

Besides being selected in the 2009 Sundance Animated Shorts program, the movie also served as Bisignano’s final thesis film for his master’s degree in Experimental Animation at the California Institute of the Arts. It combines hand-drawn animation with paintings and computer-generated imagery and shading to create a constantly changing canvas of surreal images. more

This morning, Variety gave the Steve Buscemi/Sienna Miller vehicle Interview a good review, but incorrectly identified the shooting format as HD. That’s a compliment to the SD Sony XDCAM 510 (PAL) that DP Thomas Kist actually used to shoot the film. Actually he used three XDCAMs simultaneously, a technique he developed while working with the late Theo Van Gogh on the original version of the film. more

Black Snake Moan Director Craig Brewer

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Black Snake Moan Editor Billy Fox

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Fotokem’s Walter Vopatto on Black Snake Moan Postproduction

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Remarkable conversation with DP Tim Orr who‘s here with Mike White‘s Year of the Dog and David Green‘s Snow Angels. Two very different jobs.

Year of the Dog: Otto Nemenz Movicam compacts, Cooke S4 lenses with Optimo zooms. Fuji 8563 daylight and what Orr thinks was probably the last remaining Fuji 8573 tungsten on the planet.

“One of Mike‘s biggest references on the film was the Errol Morris documentary Gates of Heaven. He wanted his movie to feel a lot like the portraiture in that film. He didn‘t want it to feel contemporary in the physical texture of the film, he didn‘t want it to look like every other modern movie mde. I tested a lot of stocks for him and he decided to shoot these older Fuji stocks. The grain structure was definitely apparent and had a tangible nature to it. Today, with the new Kodak and Fuji stocks it‘s hard to see grain in them anywhere. The older Fuji stocks also had a little bit lower contrast. more

Four Sheets to the Wind - David Michael Mauer Podcast (To Download: Right Click, Save Target As)

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Educational workshops, podcasts from Avid filmmakers and advice on the art of editing for aspiring storytellers on the agenda

Avid Technology, Inc. announced that a wide variety of creative storytellers who used Avid systems will take center stage at this year‘s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah from January 18-28. Avid tools were used in nearly every category of competition this year, including Short Films, Dramatic Competition and World Cinema - and several of this year‘s entries were shot, edited and/or output to HD. For those who can not attend the festival, Avid will provide updates as well as host a number of podcasts and blogs on its newly-launched independent film Webpage at: www.avid.com/indie. more

Listen in on an exclusive interview with Little Miss Sunshine Directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton talk about creating the award-winning film, and the importance of the Sundance Film Festival to it’s success. Millimeter contributor Darroch Greer asks the questions.

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