The Bitcoin Film Festival of Warsaw is a stupendous celebration of the rising global influence of Bitcoin, a form of cryptocurrency. In March 2019, Bitcoin advocates and film lovers from all over the world congregated at the iconic Kinoteka theater in Palace of Culture and Science to appreciate some of the most well-known Bitcoin films and documentaries. In a similar timestamp, Cointelegraph debuted The Bitcoin Farmer — a short documentary that detailed the mining of Bitcoin using renewable energy in Ireland. This was followed by a talkshow filled with prominent members of the Bitcoin movement, such as Jackson Dumont, Joe Hall, Pierre Corbin, Mark Morton and Vince Giltinan.

The debut edition of the Bitcoin Film Festival was made possible due to the determined vision of two Bitcoin enthusiasts, Pierre Corbin and Tomek Kolodziejczuk. The two told Cointelegraph of the ‘cool idea’ of using the medium of film to connect with a larger Bitcoin community. This particular concept was even more relevant in Poland, where a large population of Ukrainian immigrants were finding refuge in the country due to the war. Subsequently, donations in Bitcoin had surged and the locals had resorted to the decentralized tools for assistance.

The primary agenda of the festival was to showcase the potential of Bitcoin, as a medium of financial freedom, equality, and access. Thus, the submission of the films had to fit into the general population of the crypto-verse. This is where crowdfunding research was carried out through the Geyser Fund, from where The Satoshi Mystery, its winner, was chosen. Other films chosen for the festival included The Great Reset and the Rise of Bitcoin and Bond to Unbind as well as a depiction of the impact of Bitcoin on individual lives, as seen in Human B.

The Bitcoin Film Festival featured simultaneously with the Libertarian conference in Warsaw. Libertarians are known to be staunch advocates of proprietary rights and they embrace Bitcoin as the digital equivalent of untaxed currencies.

The team handling the festival is ruminating the possibility of keeping its location in the capital of Poland for the next edition in 2024 or alternately deciding to move it elsewhere. While it is no doubt that the bear markets are appropriate times to build, it has been conclusively proved that they are also optimum times to film; a concept quite synonymous to the Bitcoin Film Festival.



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