HBO Buys Second Life Documentary

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LOS ANGELES HBO has acquired a documentary film that was created and produced entirely within virtual world Second Life.

Directed by Douglas Gayeton, the file, “Molotov’s Dispatches in Search of the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey,” chronicles an avatar, Molotov Alva, as he travels through the virtual world learning of the complex social interactions that take place within Second Life.

Gayeton is an industry veteran, having co-written and co-directed the interactive CD-ROM movie “Johnny Mnemonic” (the version that does not star Keanu Reeves) for Sony Imagesoft.



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