The second edition of the Bitfilm Festival, an event focused on movies about the Bitcoin and Blockchain world has recently ended.
The Bitfilm Festival is organized by Aaron Koenig , founder of Bifilm Production, a company which creates short videos for websites, specifically for BitcoinCT r: 8 and Blockchain companies. Showcasing Technology
Since the 2000s, Koenig has organized the Bitfilm Festival, which previously showcased films regarding the use of digital technology in a creative and innovative way.
After Satoshi Nakamoto invented Bitcoin, Bitfilm Production decided to reinvent the festival and in 2014 it became the world’s first film festival about Bitcoin . ‘The End of Money’ and ‘Bitcoin is like the Internet’ On February 24th the final screening took place along with the award ceremony for the 2015 edition of the festival.
Held in Buenos Airs, it saw “Bitcoin – the End of Money as we Know it” by Torsten Hoffmann winning in the feature film category and “How Bitcoin is Like the Internet in the 80s” by Joe Posener received the title of best short film.
The winners were chosen based on the amount the movies received from donators. Donation Based Awards
During the entire period of the event (October – February) people could send Bitcoin to the films they like best. The two movies – one for each category (short / long) with the highest amount of donations would win the award.
“50% of the donations in each category went to the winner film, the rest could be kept by the film it was donated to. Total donations were in the range of 300 US Dollars, so not too much. We would have expected the film makers to make more of their friends and fans vote for them. But it’s a new thing, so people have to get used to it. And […]
