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My Avatar and Me

(Min Avatar og Mig)

Director: Bente Milton in cooperation with Mikkel Stolt 
Scriptwriter: Bente Milton
Cinematography: Morten Bruus, Henrik Ipsen, Robert Gould 
Music: Green Panda, Søren Siegumfeldt
Sound: Anne Jensen, Frank Mølgaard Knudsen
Film Editing: Camilla Ebling, Rasmus Gitz-Johansen
Producers: Peter Bech, Bente Milton, Mikkel Stolt
Production: Milton Media, Fenris Film & Multimedia, R-Film
Denmark, 2010, 91 min.

Sep 30, 6.30 pm - PASAKA (the film will be presented by the director)
Oct 1, 5:00 pm - SKALVIJA (the film will be presented by the director)

My Avatar and Me is a creative documentary-fiction film that might expand your sense of reality. It is the story about a troubled and unsuccessful documentary filmmaker Mikkel Stolt who decides to create a new identity, and join the pioneers and settlers in the virtual world “Second Life” on the other side of his computer screen. There he can pursue his personal dreams and ambitions. Shortly after his arrival, he meets a mysterious and influential woman named Helena. He is very attracted to Helena, and extremely curious to find out more about her, but she refuses to meet him in real life and her true identity remains a mystery. Mike truly enjoys his new status as a popular member of the Second Life jet set, but Mikkel’s real life is gradually falling apart. He is spending more and more time in front of the computer screen, bleary-eyed, sleep-deprived and out of touch with reality. When his long time girlfriend decides to break up their relationship, it doesn’t really affect him. All he can think about is his virtual career, and Helena, who has become more important to him than his real-life family and friends. When Helena suddenly departs from Second Life, Mike’s virtual world starts to fall apart. He has thirty days to track her down. His journey into cyberspace becomes a magic learning experience, which gradually opens the gates to a much larger reality. 

Festivals

Lübeck Nordic Film Days, Germany, 2010
Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2011
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2011
Cleveland International Film Festival, USA, 2011  

Bente Milton 

Bente Milton's professional filmmaking career started in 1991 at the National Film School in Denmark, where she developed her first documentary project October 43. Over the years she has produced and directed a large number of high profile documentaries and garnered more than 20 international awards and nominations. Bente Milton’s films are usually targeted at an international audience and most of them have been broadcast prime time in a large number of countries around the world. In recent years she has done a lot of travelling, attending international film festivals around the world and giving lectures about her work and life as a filmmaker. 

Mikkel Stolt

f. 1965, director/producer/writer, MA in film studies, co-founder and co-owner of Fenris Film & Multimedia ApS. Has directed and produced for a living since 1993, both own projects (mostly documentaries and short films with a humorous twist) and commissioned work (mostly TV documentaries, educational films and exhibition/museum videos). His films, whether directed and produced or just produced by him, are often supported by Danish Film Institute and Danish Film Directors a.o., whilst commissioned work has been done for Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR TV), Copenhagen Science Center, FILM-X etc.

Selected Filmography

The Secret Factor (1997)
Children of Gaia / Gaias børn (1998)
Alison's Baby (2001)