The bear market could continue, but that won’t stop Bitcoin (BTC) shooters, creators, and filmmakers from producing new content.
Held in the Polish capital Warsaw, the first edition of the Bitcoin Film Festival took place in March. The Bitcoin Film Festival brought together Bitcoin advocates and movie lovers from around the world to see some of the best-known Bitcoin movies and documentaries.
Held at the Kinoteka Theater in the iconic Palace of Culture and Science, the Bitcoin Film Festival celebrated the growing global influence of Bitcoin while also highlighting the thriving cultural movement that underpins the digital network. Some of the talent from the first Bitcoin movement film festival, BitFilm in 2015, such as Tomer Kantor, attended and continue to film Bitcoin-centric films.
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Cointelegraph Released The Bitcoin Farmer, a short documentary about Bitcoin mining using only renewable energy in Ireland. The film was followed by a panel discussion with Cointelegraph video director Jackson Dumont, global reporter Joe Hall, Bitcoin Film Fest co-founder Pierre Corbin, as well as Mark Morton and Vince Giltinan of Scilling Digital Mining.
Pierre Corbin told Cointelegraph that he and co-founder Tomek Kolodziejczuk organized the Bitcoin Film Festival because it’s a “cool idea” for the community. Although the film festival was a useful means of introducing Bitcoin to Poles, Pierre explained that Bitcoin “has been very popular here in Poland with the Ukrainians who come here because of the war.”
Poland borders Ukraine, and up to 25% of the immigrant population is Ukrainian. At the start of the war, Bitcoin donations skyrocketed, while Pierre explains that people on the ground used the decentralized tool:
“The human rights foundation helped them (Ukrainians) transfer their wealth to Bitcoin, helping them cross the border here into Poland and then guiding them through the process of getting their money back from Bitcoin ATMs because Poland is the country in Europe with more Bitcoin ATMs”.
Co-founder Tomek launched the world’s first Bitcoin film festival in November last year. Tomek was looking forward to meeting Pierre and screening his film, The Great Reset and the Rise of Bitcoin, at a local Bitcoin meetup. However, the idea snowballed. Their meeting and subsequent meetings led to the screening of Bitcoin movies from around the world in one of the most iconic buildings in Eastern Europe.
Of documentaries shot in El Salvador, such as Link to unlink, to a snapshot of the impact of Bitcoin on the lives of people in the human b, the film festival showcased the latest and most notable film production efforts. Pierre explained the selection process:
“If you select the right movies that tell the right stories, then bringing in outsiders will understand Bitcoin from the angle we want them to understand.”
A crowdfunding campaign was carried out through the Bitcoin Geyser Fund crowdfunding campaign, in which The Satoshi Mystery by Remi Baillieux won the community voting segment. Meanwhile, Pierre raised Sats (the smallest denomination of a Bitcoin) for his second Bitcoin documentary, The fight for the US dollar.
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The film festival also took advantage of a libertarian conference organized in Warsaw the same weekend. Libertarians, or advocates of minimizing the encroachment of the state on daily life, were some of the early adopters of Bitcoin.
The Bitcoin Film Festival is investigating whether to change the location for the 2024 installment or keep the festival in Warsaw. While bear markets are certainly for building, it seems they are also for filming.
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