Bruno Felix Movies

In a world that seems to grow small and more worn every day, many have come to believe that that frontiers of the future are in cyberspace. Plenty of people have already discovered how easy it is to create an alternate identity on line, and with the advent of advanced on line multi-player games like World of Warcraft and environments such as Second Life, users have the freedom to become what they want to be and interact with others in new and unusual ways. However, the technology that makes such games possible isn't free, and corporate interference begun to make its presence known in the online world a long time ago; as the demand for bandwidth increases, the internet could become a resource dependent on the whims of those who control it, and as some begin to use online communities in unscrupulous ways, the need for enforcement of laws is seemingly inevitable. Filmmakers Jorien van Nes and Femke Wolting explore the possibilities of the cyber-world of the future and the way in which freedom in the virtual environment may be in danger in the documentary Another Perfect World, which was an official selection at the 2009 Hot Docs International Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Various forms of reality are confounded as filmmaker Douglas Gayeton explores the mystery of missing California man named Moltov Alva through a series of documentaries posted in the online community of Second Life. Shortly after Alva went missing in January of 2007, Gayeton discovered a series of diaries by a man with the same name. Curiously enough, these detailed entries were all posted in an online community known as Second Life -- an online destination that allows users to create a virtual counterpart that can explore strange landscapes and communicate with other like-minded cyberspace dwellers. In a virtual community where reality and fantasy blur, the search for a missing person offers absorbing commentary on the manner in which we are drawn into other realms of consciousness on a day-to-day basis. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Rudolf Truffino was born into one of the wealthiest families in the world; his father controlled the largest bank in The Hague, and as a young man he was groomed to take over his father's business. However, Truffino had no interest in finance, and upon reaching adulthood he moved to Venezuela, where he built a new life for himself in the jungle, over the fierce objections of his father. With the help of the Pemon Indians who lived nearby, Truffino made his way into the remote regions near Angel Falls, where he built Ucaima, a camp where visitors could come to witness the natural beauty of the wilderness. Opened in the 1950's, Ucaima became a popular destination for moneyed tourists with a taste for adventure, and Truffino's guests included filmmaker Werner Herzog, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and astronaut Neil Armstrong. The man known as "Jungle Rudy" met a woman from Australia who would in time marry him, and they raised three children in the village he built around Ucaima. However, while Truffino chose to live his life in the jungle, his offspring did not, and ten years after he died peacefully in his beloved Ucaima, his survivors begin to feel the call of the civilization he rejected. Filmmaker Rob Smits examines both the public and private story behind Truffino in Jungle Rudy: The Chronicles of a Family, a documentary which received its North American premiere at the 2007 Silverdocs Film Festival, a festival for documentary cinema sponsored in part by the American Film Institute. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi