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This documentary has won more than a dozen awards at international film festivals. Five years after his first Bitcoin documentary, award-winning producer/director Torsten Hoffmann revisits the topic and sets out to explore the evolution of the blockchain industry and its new lofty promises. Can this technology, designed to operate independent of trust and within a decentralized network, really provide a robust alternative to the Internet as we know it (web3.0)?

Cryptopia (2020)
Director: Torsten Hoffmann, Michael Watchulonis
Writer: Torsten Hoffmann
Stars: Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Vitalik Buterin, Laura Shin, Roger Ver, Torsten Hoffmann
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia, United States, Germany
Language: English, German
Also Known As: Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Future of the Internet
Release Date: 14 January 2020 (Australia)
Duration: 86 min
Filming Locations: Australia, United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Japan, Hong Kong

Storyline:
Bitcoin has been called one of the most disruptive technologies of our times, threatening banks by building an alternative and decentralized currency system. Some say that its "blockchain" could provide a blueprint for a better and fairer Internet - challenging the dominating technology giants. Despite this potential, Bitcoin is undergoing severe price volatility and the community is facing a bitter internal 'civil war'. Moreover, much of the media coverage is often misinformed or misleading and the general public is still confused about the technology and its larger implications. Join filmmaker Torsten Hoffmann (Bitcoin: The End of Money As We Know It) on his journey to better understand this decentralised technology and the promise of web3.0. This Screen Australia supported and crowdfunded feature documentary introduces the 'big brains and big egos' of this new industry including Andreas Antonopoulos, Laura Shin, Dr. Jemma Green, Charlie Lee, Vitalik Buterin, Preethi Kasireddy, Dr. Robert Kahn, Wences Casares, Samson Mow, Roger Ver, Craig Wright, and many more. Some of the hackers, hipsters and hustlers that Torsten interviewed 5 years ago are now creating a new decentralised web, while others have broken their promises. Can we trust them to build a trustless new cyber utopia or are their projects as unfairly distributed, and easily manipulated as our current systems?

Reviews:

Quote From The Producer:
"While my first film was low budget, talking-heads heavy and very academic, #CryptopiaFilm achieved a budget 8 times higher with the help of Screen Australia, A German broadcast coproduction, a much bigger crowdfunding campaign and industry backing. This allowed us to tell our story in a more ambitious cinematic universe. Elaborate 3D animations were created to illustrate blockchain's inner workings. We fly 5-person crews into a remote part of Switzerland to a secret location. We filmed consistently with two 4k cameras and partially even in 8k resolution.
Furthermore, we opted for a more personal style i.e. "Torsten, the filmmaker taking the audience on a journey through this industry and it is ambitious"

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