TRUST MACHINE: THE STORY OF BLOCKCHAIN

By Alex WINTER

BREAKER STUDIOS - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World / PROD / FIN

Documentary - Completed 2018

Award-winning documentarian Alex Winter drills down on blockchain technology. Why are banks terrified while UNICEF embraces it to feed refugee children? Is blockchain technology poised to be bigger than the Internet or a bubble built on hype? Narrated by Rosario Dawson.

Festivals
& Awards

Tallinn Black Nights IFF 2018
Copenhagen CPH PIX 2018
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Social issues
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 84 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Alex WINTER
    • Producer(s)
    • Kim JACKSON (Breaker), Geoffrey CLARK (Futurism), Alex WINTER (Trouper)
    • Synopsis
    • Hacktivist and blockchain expert Lauri Love fights extradition in TRUST MACHINE—his computer skills a threat to the US government. Tech innovators strike a raw nerve as banks and network pundits rush to condemn volatile cryptocurrenciesand their underlying blockchain technology. Why are banks terrified while UNICEF embraces it to help refugee children? Award–winning filmmaker Alex Winter reveals that proponentsof blockchain—a verified digital ledger—are already usingthe technology to change the world; fighting income inequality, the refugee crisis and world hunger.