Bitcoin fever reaches Spain through the big screen

“Who is afraid of bitcoin (BTC)? The greatest fear comes from the States and centralized banking.” With that triggering question begins the trailer for “Bitcoin Revolution”, the first film in Spanish about cryptocurrency, which will be released this Thursday, June 20, in Madrid.

The 80-minute documentary features testimonies of the community’s protagonists bitcoiner in Latin America and Spain. Its goal is to explore the transformative potential of Bitcoin and its cultural importance, beyond the appeal of the digital asset in the market.

With the premise of being one of the technological disruptions of this time, the film records the different visions behind this innovation that was created in 2009, and exposes how its scope can benefit millions of people.

“We decided to create this film because we consider that Bitcoin is the most important technology that exists at this moment and, possibly, one of the most revolutionary that humanity has had in history,” he told CriptoNoticias. Juan Pablo Mejíaalias “Juan en Cripto”, one of the producers of the documentary.

“Part of the history of Bitcoin has always been documented from the point of view of investment, speculation and the opportunity to make money, but many aspects have been left out, such as the social, political, economic and financial impact. We wanted to show it, also, from a Latin American vision,” he added.

The documentary was filmed between 2021 and 2023 in The Savior, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Spain. Numerous businessmen, lawyers, journalists and content creators who promote Bitcoin participate in it, including Ricardo Salinas Pliego, owner of Grupo Azteca; Andrés Herzog, lawyer and former candidate for the presidency of Spain; and Cristina Carrascosa, lawyer specialized in cryptocurrencies.

Other interviewees are Lunaticoin, podcaster and content creator about Bitcoin; Javier Ruiz, Spanish journalist and presenter; and Diego Gutiérrez, co-founder of Rootstock and Bitcoin Argentina.

The own and regional perspective is what makes the difference in this feature film. “Latinos have a different version of Bitcoin. For example, Argentinians understand Bitcoin much easier than people from other countries, because “They have suffered the consequences of having very bad money.”Mejía pointed out.

“We wanted to show how different people in Latin America have found that opportunity and light at the end of the tunnel, despite the fact that our economic systems have suffered devaluations in their currencies or have had ‘corralitos’ of savings. In the West this is not known and they think that money works very well. They don’t realize that it’s not like that for everyone,” the producer concluded.

The feature film will arrive in theaters from New Frequency, a distributor focused on disruptive documentary content. The preview will be first at the MK2 Cine Paz in Madrid, and then it will be screened in Spanish movie theaters. At the same time, will premiere in Bogotá, Colombia, with a date to be confirmed, and later a tour of the region will begin.

The film is supported by industry sponsors such as Rootstock, a sidechain Bitcoin with a strong presence in Argentina and other countries in the region, and Rayyo Wallet, a digital wallet based in Mexico integrated with the Lightning Network.

Designed for public controversy

Since it was announced, the film has been attracting attention among bitcoiners. And the trailer advances an approach to the discussions behind the cryptocurrency designed by Satoshi Nakamoto.

“Before the 2008 crisis, the monetary mass was 8 trillion 0.8 points and now it is 8.2 trillion,” Ricardo Salinas draws attention in the documentary. “The Great Recession planted a small seed that began to germinate and was the seed of thinking that “The monetary system really had a problem.”completes another of the testimonies.

Comments in favor of Bitcoin point to the loss of credibility of money, as if it becomes “air” when trust in governments falls. For this reason, “money has to be scarce,” as is the case with cryptocurrencies, says another opinion.

“Bitcoin fulfills a very important function, which is to have a system of neutral reserve of value that no politician, government or corporation can modify“, is defined in the trailer.

However, the voices of detractors also appear. “I protest to the apostles of Bitcoin because it gives the impression that they only see the benefits,” says one of the testimonies. “It often gives the feeling, and I don’t want to generalize, that it is purely speculation. And that the objective is not so much to change society, but to literally get rich,” they point out.

“We have critical voices because we want the audience to be able to draw their own conclusions,” “Juan en Cripto” told CriptoNoticias.

Juan Pablo Mejía became known as a Bitcoin influencer since 2017 and worked with several cryptocurrency companies in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, and Spain. In 2020, he was named one of the ‘Top 10 most influential in the crypto ecosystem’ in Spain.

The rest of the team is made up of Camila Rodríguez Bohórquez, a documentary filmmaker with experience in international productions, Pablo Martínez Lara, audiovisual producer and editor with more than 15 years of experience in television, advertising, and short films, and Jorge Bartolome Delgado, screenwriter with experience in large productions for different streamers.

“Bitcoin Revolution” stands out because it includes several experiences that the cryptocurrency had in Latin America. As CriptoNoticias reported, there are other films about Bitcoin, but of Anglo-Saxon or European production.

Some of the other films on the subject are “The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin” (2014), “Deep Web” (2015), “Finding Satoshi Nakamoto” (2015) or “Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King” (2022).