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Paul Levering initially formed 2 Player Productions LLC with friend and film maker Paul Owens in the winter of 2005, joined shortly thereafter by cinematographer Asif Siddiky, long time friend and colleague of Paul Owens.

The founding concept of 2PP was to pursue the production of a documentary film concerning the impact of video game software on developing modern music culture.

With the initial working title of "Play", official research for the project began in late 2005, including interviews and test footage of many performers and professionals working directly in the game industry or in some way influenced by its content.

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This early research led to 2PP's very first working production, a documentary mini series on the Video Games Live symphony concert tour, a continuing worldwide production by game industry veterans Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall.

The Video Games Live mini series followed Tommy and Jack through the early stages of publicity and set up, ending with highlights from the concerts first performance in Philadelphia at the historic Mariam Theater. The series debuted on MTV owned Gametrailers.com as a featured story, pulling over 160 thousand views.

2PP continued to produce short films and videos of performances in the tri-state area, falling in to a regular position shooting chip music concerts at the Tank performance art space in New York. The Tank's monthly "Pulsewave" series offered 2PP a fantastic setting to explore chip music culture and develop techniques of shooting and editing live performances.

When the Tank and chip music net label the 8bitpeoples decided to organize a four day festival, 2PP was invited to be the official videographers of the event. Seeing this as a once in a lifetime opportunity, all efforts where poured into covering the Blip Festival and all aspects of its production.

Using footage obtained from Blip Festival, Pulsewave, and additional interviews shot around New York after Blip, 2PP began to bring together the film that would be known as "Reformat the Planet".

Work on "Reformat the Planet" would continue through 2006 and 2007 as 2PP also produced a stand alone DVD release of music videos featuring every artist from the 2006 Blip Festival, as well as all the chip music videos completed independent of the festival up to that time. This would be 2PPs first DVD release, distributed independently through the Tank and 8bitpeoples.

Maintaining their relationship with the chip community, 2PP continued to film local shows and events, eventually hosting certain Pulsewave shows themselves and making the events an outlet to premier new video works. In late 2007 2PP returned to shoot Blip Festival for a second time, and again began production on another DVD of performance videos.

Much seems to be on the horizon for 2PP as at the start of 2008 "Reformat the Planet" is in line to have it's world premier at the South by Southwest film and music festival in Austin, Texas.