Second Life Lipsync Viewer. My Second Life. HBO BUYS U.S. TV RIGHTS TO SECOND LIFE MACHINIMA SERIES. On March 2nd, a mysterious Second Life machinima appeared on YouTube, purporting to be a documentary by a heretofore unknown Resident named Molotov Alva (now viewable here) describing his disappearance from the material world into SL. At the time, I called it "evocative, vivid, and beautifully produced", but knew little else about its origins. Later I learned that Alva was the SL avatar of Douglas Gayeton, an accomplished multimedia director. As it turns out, I wasn't the only one impressed, because Gayeton just let me in on a truly gigantic announcement: "HBO purchased the North American television rights," Gayeton e-mails me.
"They have decided to first submit it for an Oscar in the Animated Short Subject category. " It'll soon be screened in a Los Angeles theater to meet the Academy's qualifications for nomination. "They are then hoping to premiere it at Sundance. How did this all come about? "[It's] a Dutch company run by Bruno Felix and Femke Wolting," Gayeton explains. Second Life Video. Machinima Festival. The 2006 Machinima Festival. Alt-Zoom Studios - Second Life Machinima.