2015 Bitcoin Film Festival Opens

On October 31, the Bitfilm Film Festival opened a voting station for Bitcoin-themed movies, allowing people to vote for the best Bitcoin-themed movies of 2015. How to vote? Of course, use Bitcoin.

The Bitfilm Film Festival has been held since 2000 and is a film festival dedicated to celebrating digital technology. Every year, a film exhibition is held to showcase the best films voted by the audience. However, since 2014, they have turned their attention to Bitcoin and not only that, they have also changed the name of the film festival to something related to Bitcoin.

The 2015 Bitfilm Film Festival has already begun and the films will be shown in many cities around the world. Here are the cities where the films will be shown:

October 31: Berlin

November 28: Saigon

December 2: Amsterdam

December 3: Budapest

In addition to the above cities, dozens of cities will also serve as destinations for this film festival, including Accra, Barcelona, ​​Buenos Aires, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Mexico City, Miami, Rome, San Francisco, Stockholm, and Ubud, Bali, but the date of the film festival has not yet been determined.

People want to democratically select the best films because it is more meaningful, and this is the strength of Bitcoin. Anyone who wants to watch the movies and support this independent film festival only needs to send some Bitcoin to their favorite movies. When the voting for the movies ends on December 18, 2015, the movie that received the most Bitcoins will win the Bitcoin donated by people as a prize, as well as a trophy. Here is the distribution of the Bitcoin donated by people:

Donate 40% of the proceeds to the film that wins the Best Film Award.

Another 40% will remain in the Bitcoin address donated by viewers for each movie.

The remaining 20% ​​will be used to host the Bitfilm.

Nominated films

The following are the films nominated for the 2015 Bitfilm Film Festival.

1. Comparison between Bitcoin and the Internet in the 1980s (USA)

This is a short animated film directed by Joe Posner that explains how Bitcoin works.

Voting address: 158DYy7L9PTZqNvBm3pW8Wgeorj1MqGwbj

2. Bitcoin: The Currency Terminator (Australia)

This is a film about the evolution of money from shells to cryptocurrencies, shot by Toster Hofmann

Voting address: 12cs1Zb9obqRWqx97hfi8xCjyytt2ZkuUb

3. An Engineer’s Bitcoin Journey (Germany)

The film tells the story of Felix Weis, a 28-year-old computer programmer from Luxembourg, who travels around the world using only Bitcoin. The filmmaker is, of course, Felix Weis himself.

Voting: 1QBFtPUL3Wd9nH3waUDPgaXBxe12R2oG29

3. Around the World in 101 Days (USA)

Newlyweds Austin and Beccy Craig took a difficult but interesting Bitcoin survival journey. Together, they traveled around three continents and paid for everything with Bitcoin, without using any other currency. Photographed by Travis Pitcher, Joseph LeBaron, etc. (USA 2015)

Voting address: 1AsfDmmF2uoTecnBQxssYsiws1qsXwuh2F

4. Let you understand Bitcoin (Part 1) (Netherlands)

This is a series of films about Bitcoin. The first part introduces the background of Bitcoin's birth. It was filmed by Tomasz Kaye.

Voting address: 1FSJzTw98q716ZxQ8TtstD1UgpVKrXZKB3

5. Cryptocurrency: Gold in the digital age (Russia)

Will Russia ban Bitcoin? People in this Bitcoin boom don’t seem to care about the government’s decision.

Voting address: 1NcoKYda12Ksds9ESV6nKsB4nQdCa8qc5b

6. Searching for Satoshi Nakamoto (USA)

This film produced by the TV team tells the story of their journey to find Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, and to uncover the mystery of Satoshi himself. Shot by Mike Anzel.

Voting address: 1BoFNRxqNrP4EKuBSM8GjyyQ3N4bpPsJhy

7. Mysterious Country (UK)

A documentary about the impact Bitcoin has had on the lives of hackers and crypto enthusiasts. By Tomer Kantor.

Voting address: 19nGdvEnCYKgUherem837sWk7bMh8ohCeT

Original article: http://cointelegraph.com/news/115594/voting-begins-for-2015s-bitfilm-festival
By Juan S. Galt
Translator: printemps
Editor: printemps
Source (translation): Babbitt Information