Virtual World News: Indie Film Fest to Simulcast in Multiverse Places

Chris Sherman's Virtual World New reports a very interesting report of a film festival developing in the Virtual World community. The short description is reprinted:

Indie Film Fest to Simulcast in Multiverse Places

From Here to Awesome, an independent film festival, will be showing at New York City's Times Square Art Center from October 22-24. For those that can't make it, 7 of the films will also be simulcast in Multiverse's recently launched virtual world, Places. The group also hopes to build a virtual community around each of the films with live filmmaker Q&As and post-screening dance parties held in the virtual Times Square with SHOUTcast radio streams. The virtual edition of the fest ties in particularly well since the organizers are working to promote distribution and discovery with other new media outlets like Amazon, Vudu, Joost, Hulu, NetFlix, and Caachi. You can find out more information on the Multiverse Places line up here. "From Here to Awesome is an experiment to directly connect filmmakers and audiences," Lance Weiler, co-founder of From Here to Awesome, said in a statement. "The internet has provided all the tools needed for filmmakers to make feature films but the struggle to secure a distributor and to market their film is still a paramount obstacle filmmakers face. This is why we created From Here To Awesome."

As described in an earlier post, the virtual film festival is the first step in what I expect to become a full market for independent filmmaking. Soon we will be able to add a potential "investor" room (of pre-screen, accredited investors) to review complete packages. At that point, the power of the virtual film studio will really take off.