Berlin-based MMO developer and operator Metaversum has partnered with Bitfilm to create Bitropolis, a virtual art city in 3d online world Twinity in which users can attend a virtual version of the Bitfilm Digital Film Festival.

The festival, which is running from May 1st to July 12th, celebrates films which use digital technology in creative and innovative ways, such as 3D blockbusters, internet flash movies, machinima, or short clips for mobile devices.

Bitropolis will encompass a cinema, art gallery, night club, and bar, the last location allowing visitors to gather for virtual drinks after films. Filmmakers and 3D artists can rent their own "studio cube" and host special film screenings or other events. The studio cubes will be scattered throughout the Bitroplis cinema, which will be showing all of the nominated festival films.

Said Metaversum co-founder and chief marketing officer Dr. Mirko Caspar: “Bitropolis is a wonderful example of the vision that we are pursuing with the virtual world Twinity. Real events, such as the Bitfilm Festival in Stuttgart and Hamburg, are given a whole new dimension when they are transferred into a virtual world. We thus enable users from all around the world to take part in the festival and experience the best featured films,” comments Dr. Mirko Caspar, CMO of Metaversum GmbH.