Bear markets are for filming: the Bitcoin Film Festival in Warsaw

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The carnivore marketplace mightiness rage on, but that won't halt the Bitcoin (BTC) shooters, creators and filmmakers from producing caller content. 

Hosted successful the superior of Poland, Warsaw, the archetypal variation of the Bitcoin Film Festival took spot successful March. The Bitcoin Film Festival brought unneurotic Bitcoin advocates and movie lovers from crossed the globe to beryllium done immoderate of the best-known Bitcoin films and documentaries. 

Hosted successful the Kinoteka theatre successful the iconic Palace of Culture and Science, the Bitcoin Film Festival festival celebrated Bitcoin’s increasing planetary power portion underscoring the thriving taste question that underpins the integer network. Some of the talents from the Bitcoin movement's archetypal movie festival, BitFilm successful 2015, specified as Tomer Kantor, were successful attendance–and they proceed to sprout Bitcoin-centric films.

Cointelegraph premiered The Bitcoin Farmer, a abbreviated documentary astir Bitcoin mining utilizing solely renewable vigor successful Ireland. The movie was followed by a sheet treatment with Cointelegraph’s manager of the video, Jackson Dumont, planetary newsman Joe Hall, Bitcoin Film Fest co-founder Pierre Corbin, arsenic good arsenic Mark Morton and Vince Giltinan from Scilling Digital Mining.

On signifier for the Bitcoin Farmer debrief. From left, Pierre Corbin, Joe Hall, Jackson Dumont, Vince Giltinan and Mark Morton.

Pierre Corbin told Cointelegraph that helium and cofounder Tomek Kolodziejczuk enactment unneurotic the Bitcoin Film Festival due to the fact that it's a “cool idea” for the community. Although the movie fest was a utile means of introducing Polish radical to Bitcoin, Pierre explained that Bitcoin "has been precise fashionable present successful Poland with Ukrainians coming present due to the fact that of the war.”

Poland borders Ukraine, and arsenic overmuch arsenic 25% of the migrant colonisation is Ukrainian. At the onset of the war, Bitcoin donations soared, while Pierre explains that radical connected the ground utilized the decentralized tool:

“The quality rights instauration helped them [Ukrainians] transportation their wealthiness into Bitcoin, helping them transverse the borderline present into Poland and past locomotion them done the process of getting their wealth backmost retired from Bitcoin ATMs due to the fact that Poland is the state successful Europe with the astir Bitcoin ATMs.”

Cofounder Tomek acceptable the shot rolling for the world’s archetypal Bitcoin movie festival successful November of past year. Tomek was keen to conscionable Pierre and surface his film, The Great Reset and the Rise of Bitcoin, astatine a section Bitcoin Meetup. However, the thought snowballed. Their brushwood and consequent meetings led to the showings of Bitcoin movies from astir the satellite successful 1 of Eastern Europe's astir iconic buildings.  

The movie festival location. Source: Linkedin

From documentaries changeable successful El Salvador, specified arsenic Bond to Unbind, to a snapshot of the interaction of Bitcoin connected individuals’ lives successful The Human B, the movie festival showcased the astir caller and notable movie accumulation efforts. Pierre explained the enactment process:

“If you prime the close films that archer the close stories, past bringing radical from extracurricular volition recognize Bitcoin from the space that we privation them to understand.”

A crowdfunding run was held done the Bitcoin crowdfunding run Geyser Fund, successful which The Satoshi Mystery by Remi Baillieux won the community-voting segment. Meanwhile, Pierre raised Sats (the smallest denomination of a Bitcoin) for his 2nd Bitcoin documentary, The Fight for the US Dollar.

Related: Film review: ‘Human B’ shows a idiosyncratic travel with Bitcoin

The movie festival besides piggybacked disconnected a Libertarian league hosted successful Warsaw the aforesaid weekend. Libertarians, oregon proponents of minimizing the state's encroachment connected regular life, were immoderate of the earliest adopters of Bitcoin.

The Bitcoin Film Festival is investigating whether to alteration the determination for the 2024 installment oregon to support the festival successful Warsaw. While bear markets are undoubtedly for building, it appears they're besides for filming. 

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