Battersea Leisure
“NTF:WTF?,” the upcoming documentary from BAFTA-winning filmmaker David Shulman concerning the world of Non-Fungible Tokens and their influence on the artwork market, has been acquired by Netflix for the U.Ok.
The characteristic — which options interviews with the likes of Damien Hirst — explores how NFTs modified lives, alongside the course of artwork and leisure. From the worlds of CryptoPunks, Bored Ape Yacht Membership and superstar collectors, to present business leaders and the group of collectors, the movie talks solely to the important thing architects of the NFT motion. It additionally options its founders, together with early adopters resembling Snoop Canine and digital artists like Beeple (Mike Winkelmann), whose Everydays assortment was purchased by an NFT investor for $69 million, and Mad Canine Jones.
Within the movie, co-produced by Josh Berger‘s Battersea Leisure and Atomized Studios (“Actual Mo Farah”), Hirst discusses his NFT venture The Foreign money, which was launched as a sequence of 10,000 distinctive Spot Work and gave collectors the choice of maintaining an preliminary NFT digital model or swapping it for the unique bodily art work. Those that elected to maintain the NFT of the work had their unique portray burned and destroyed by Hirst. How the collectors would make their determinations underpins the thrust of Shulman’s movie.
“NFT:WTF?” marks the debut venture from Battersea Leisure, arrange by former Warner Bros. UK, Eire and Spain president Berger in 2022 as a media funding and advisory firm and producer of movie, TV, and theatre content material. Berger lately produced Man Ritchie’s “The Covenant,” starring Jake Gylenhaal. Battersea and Atomized offered the movie to Netflix. Ardour Distribution is promoting all different international territories.
“NFT:WTF?” is directed by Shulman, produced by Berger, with Zad Rogers, Lydia Conway and Ben Weston serving as government producers. The producer for Atomized Studios is Alex Foster.