By Cynthia Wisehart

Davis Guggenheim started the filmmaking process for It Might Get Loud with an inconspicuous tape recorder. Sitting in hotel rooms across from Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White, he let conversation write the first draft of his documentary, laying down a map for the shooting that would unfold over the next 18 months. more>>

I leave Guggenheim at the Filmmaker’s Lounge and cross the street to the NY Lounge where I’m greeted with a picture of…Davis Guggenheim, holding the public debut of an elegant little JVC number. You can see it too—today through Sunday.

Craig Yanagi, JVC’s National Marketing Manager, Creation Products calls it the “GY (as in Get Your) HM (as in Her Majesty) 100. He’s really proud of it and it’s getting buzz in part because of the Apple benediction (a first-ever licensing of Quicktime to a camera manufacturer). more>>

By Eric Melin

“Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble.”

So goes the tagline to the newest animated short film from the British filmmaking team known as Smith & Foulkes. Entered at Sundance 2009 in the International Animated Shorts category, This Way Up is a dark but whimsical 8-minute romp about father and son caretakers whose dedication most certainly cannot be called into question. When a boulder flattens their hearse, the two deal with some pretty big physical and philosophical pitfalls to get a dead body into the ground where it belongs. more>>

Michael and Mark Polish make their third trip to Sundance with Manure, a new surreal comedy that takes place in a "heightened reality" simliar to Northfork, their 2003 Sundance entry. This one stars Billy Bob Thornton, Tea Leoni, Kyle McLachlan, and Ed Helms and concerns manure salesmen in the 1960s.

The entire film was shot indoors on a soundstage and relied heavily on a stylized production design to create more>>

From The Briefing Room

Digital motion picture and post-production companies PostWorks and Orbit Digital detailed their support of numerous feature films and shorts selected for the annual Sundance Film Festival, which kicked-off in Park City, Utah. Staff members from PostWorks and Orbit Digital have made lab, picture and/or sound post-production contributions to the narrative feature films Adventureland from director Greg Mottola, Against the Current from director Peter Callahan, Dare from director Adam Salky, more>>