The FreeChain documentary has been out for a few days, as part of Vimeo's 2024 independent film festival.
The festival features a few dozen independent films, just one of which is FreeChain, and for the price of a festival ticket you can watch ALL of them.
Part of the game is voting, and when you purchase a ticket you get a voting code... you have to vote for your top 2 and provide a brief comment covering what you liked about the films, a few words is enough.
You can purchase a Festival ticket here.
@lordbutterfly's post with more detailed instructions is here
FreeChain is a great watch....
Roughly the first half covers cryptocurrency and blockchain in general, and then the second half is devoted more to social media, the birth and takeover of Steem by Justin Sun and then towards the end we get onto the creation of Hive.
The documentary covers a lot of ground in just 45 minutes and does a good job of explaining complex concepts and a complicated social justice story in an understandable way, using plenty of interviews and cartoons to illustrate.
Having lived through the Steem takeover-birth of Hive I think a reasonably understandable account of the events was provided, although I think maybe something a bit more direct rather than storified would have served those who hadn't lived through it better.
The only real downside is that the documentary relies exclusively on five voices: @blocktrades, @starkerx, @theycallmedan, and @yabapmatt and Andrew Levine, which doesn't really speak to the core theme that well which is decentralisation. (But apparently more people were reluctant to come forwards and fair play as the interviews were up to four hours long).
Although when answering the core questions such as 'what is a blockchain' and 'how innovative is BTC' these four do have some very different answers, which demonstrates that the Chain works despite diversity, which is one of the key strengths of Hive IMO.
It's only towards the end that we get some short video snippets of ordinary Hive users.
Then again I guess the point of the documentary is to entertain and peak people's interest rather than be an advert for Hive, so it does a nice job of NOT ramming this blockchain down people's throats, and it certainly DOESN'T feel like a Hive marketing campaign which I think is a very good thing, it is a documentary.
Justin Sun comes off very badly, which is fair, and a further benefit of this movie is that it warns people off getting involved with any other projects with which that scammer is involved.
Overall, FreeChain is a boon to the HIVE chain, so give it a watch and a vote!
NB you have until 15th Jan to vote so time is running out!
