“Life on Life” is a 13-minute docu-narrative produced inside the virtual reality platform SecondLife, composed of vignettes narrating one avatar’s path through her first year in the metaverse. From magical safaris and artificial intelligence lifeforms to hackers and virtual suicide bombers, the real world plays itself out around her in virtual space, and Life passes through with hope and wonder intact. The film explores an intersection of the first and virtual worlds–the drawbacks and the potential. “Life on Life” was accepted to the Cambridge International Film Festival, UK, was joint-winner of the Magic Rock Machinima Festival, had a scene featured on CNN.com and IBM’s SmarterPlanet blog. It has been featured by the virtual worlds projects and presses: Orange Island (France Telecom); Dancing Ink Productions/Carnegie Center for Ethics in International Affairs; Babel News; Koinup; Rockcliff University; New World Notes and massively.com. Thank you to each of these! I was invited as a panel speaker on “Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds” at the SecondLife industry convention and on “Women in Machinima” at the International Machinima Festival, 2008. One scene from this piece was excerpted to serve as a stand-alone promotion for Uthango Social Investments, a South African social development firm. The excerpt, “Virtual Africa in Second Life,” played on CNN.com for 24 hours resulting in 13,000+ views and a 3-fold increase in visitations to Uthango’s website in that period. Produced by Sterling Wright, Global Future Media www.GlobalFutureMedia.com Less