A 35-minute feature filmed entirely in Second Life has been sold to HBO. Its entitled ‘Molotov’s Dispatches in Search of the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey’. The video below is an overview of the feature, below that is the trailer.

This cross medium narrative I find extremely inspiring. Second Life inhabitants have been filming/recording their world since its inception – but this ‘first life / second life’ character analogy is brilliant – its not just role-playing in what could be seen as a ‘virtual studio’. It’ll be good to see if the story works for film fans – and is not eclipsed by Second Life. It seems to me that the story cannot be told without Second Life, its integral to the narrative – which is why I think we’ll see this potentially becoming a milestone in both film and online media. Everyday there’s something new, don’t you love the fact that evolution is everywhere and in everything!

About the feature, grabbed from MolotovAlva.com;

In January 2007, a man named Molotov Alva, disappeared from his Californian home. Recently, a series of video dispatches by a Traveler of the same name have appeared within a popular online world called Second Life.

In these dispatches Molotov Alva encounters everything from Furries to Cyberpunks to Neo-Luddites to Sex Slaves to the King of the Hobos, Orhalla Zander, who becomes Molotovs guide as he searches for the creator of their brave new world.

Filmmaker Douglas Gayeton came across these video dispatches and put them together into a documentary of seven episodes.

An interview with Douglas Gayeton on SubmarineChannel

Read the Press Release on PRWeb