| 8th Wonderland | |
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| Directed by | Nicolas Alberny Jean Mach |
| Produced by | Eric Fantone (associate producer) Guillaume Letellier (producer) |
| Written by | Nicolas Alberny Jean Mach |
| Starring | Matthew Géczy Robert William Bradford Alain Azerot Eloïssa Florez |
| Music by | Nicolas Alberny |
| Cinematography | Antoine Marteau |
| Editing by | Aurélien Dupont |
| Distributed by | Help Distribution |
| Release date(s) | May 16, 2008 (Cannes Film Market) |
| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French English German |
8th Wonderland is a 2008 French science fiction film directed by Nicolas Alberny and Jean Mach.
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8th Wonderland is a story about the first virtual country that was founded on the internet by a community containing hundreds of people from all over the world. These people got tired of listening to boring speeches from politicians they wanted to act and change the world with their actions. 8th Wonderland has weekly votes where people decide over the next actions e.g. they placed vending machines for condoms in the Vatican, a Darwin-Bible gets printed and distributed many times, and a deal about nuclear energy between Russia and Iran is prevented by a fake interpreter from 8th wonderland. Also professional players from soccer teams have to work in a Chinese factory where children work under horrible circumstances and produce shoes. Of course these actions were spread internalionally all over the media so that secret service started paying attention to the group. Suddendly an imposter pretends being the founder of 8th Wonderland to later use his popularity for his own ad campaigns. Now the citizens of 8th Wonderland have to act to save the face of their community.
8th Wonderland won several awards at film festivals:[1]
Since 2010 there is the possibility to join 8th Wonderland online and to become a real citizen. The country has a constitution, a chat room and a forum to vote for propositions.