Forget about simply watching movies inside the matrix internet. You can now make one there, too. For the first time ever, the 48 Hour Film Project and Second Life have teamed up to offer inter-nerds and cyberpunks with the chance to compete in a weekend-long filmmaking contest … online, in the popular virtual world of SL.

As usual in 48HFP events, teams will be given a genre, a character, a prop and one line of dialogue that must be used in the shooting of a short film, which must be completed in (clearly) 48 hours. The Second Life competition begins Friday, January 11th at 4:00 p.m. SLT (Second Life Time, of course) and ends Sunday, January 13 at 4:30 p.m. SLT. When the films are completed, they will be screened inside the virtual world of Second Life on January 16 and 17.

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