This year's Sundance Film Festival opened late last week, and one of the very first movies to launch the event was "Life 2.0", the feature length documentary on Second Life by Jason Spingarn-Koff (known in SL as Jay Spire). Here's an excellent article on the making of the movie on Sundance's site. I've been exchanging brief text messages with Jason, who presumably is sending them while trudging through the Park City snow and jostling into James Franco and other stars with movies also screening there. The premiere, he told me, was "amazing", and sent along this recap of the screening he wrote for the Independent Filmmaker Project blog. Sample:
The crowd was lively -- more laughs than I expected -- and responded as I hoped to the dramatic ups and downs... As I take shuttles around snowy Park City, I'm running into a surprising number of people who have seen or heard of the film and want to chat about virtual worlds and the implications for society.
He also tipped me to three new clips on the movie's homepage, two featuring the deep if troubled romance of Amie Goode and Bluntly Berblinger, and one featuring the impressible content creator Ms. Asri Falcone, matching machinima footage taken from within SL to video and/or audio interviews of their real life owners. Stay tuned: If all goes well for Jason, a film/TV/Internet distribution deal may be in the offing.
Image credits: festival.sundance.org, life2movie.com.
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