Oz festival flick fails to make mockery of Second Life
by Tateru Nino 
Jun 17th 2009 at 7:00PM
Filed under: Culture, News items, Second Life, Virtual worlds
We know, we're shocked that the opportunity was passed over. With one movie in the works based on a newspaper article based on a divorce, and – of course – the CSI:NY story that humorously featured Second Life like we'd never seen it before, well ... hopes of a decent cinematic treatment of Linden Lab's virtual environment were starting to look pretty low.
Enter Rachel Ward's Beautiful Kate, which aired in the Sydney Film Festival late last week and is due to air in Australia on 7 August. It's an emotional and confronting work, in which Second Life makes an interesting cameo.
