Free Documentary Film: Life 2.0 (Second Life)

Life 2.0 is Free and Open to the Public

Do you know about Second Life, the free online virtual world where people can design avatars, get jobs, buy
houses, get married, and basically do almost anything that's possible in the
real world?

Do you know that there are more than 37 million users and that
hundreds of universities around the world now teach courses through Second
Life?

And do you know that there is a huge silent subsection of
American youth who have disappeared into this world?   Virtual reality living is one
of the fastest growing addictive behaviors among teens and young adults.  The impact on their lives has been immense.

Many educators have tried to reach out to these kids by
joining them, creating entire educationally significant environments for them,
trying to re-engage these kids in real life.  
These are kids who don't fit into life as it exists now, so they create
a world that does accept them. 

Join us for a free screening of  Life 2.0, the 2011 documentary that depicts
how some people are living fuller lives online than off.  

From The Huffington Post review (2011):
the film takes you into the lives of a group of Second Life users, who can spend
as much as 20 hours a day on the site.  Director
Jason Spingarn-Koff digs deeply into the core of basic human interaction by
assuming his own avatar and immersing himself in the worlds of Second Life
residents, whose real lives have been drastically transformed by the new lives
they lead in cyberspace.  In doing so, he
manages to create an intimate, character-based drama that forces us to question
not only who we are, but who we long to be.

Variety wrote of the film,
"Every thread here raises a provocative question about the ethics of
online interactivity, and serves to demonstrate the Web's ability to both
facilitate and destroy human relationships”.