{"id":34786,"date":"2021-03-15T17:51:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T21:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=34786"},"modified":"2021-11-29T16:33:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T21:33:42","slug":"oscar-nominated-documentary-is-auctioned-as-non-fungible-token-nft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/15\/oscar-nominated-documentary-is-auctioned-as-non-fungible-token-nft\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar-Nominated Documentary is Auctioned as Non-Fungible Token (NFT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new entertainment platform for filmmakers: non-fungible tokens (NFTs).<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to an article on the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/21\/03\/20177532\/oscar-nominated-documentary-being-auctioned-as-an-nft\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benzinga financial news site<\/a><\/strong>, Canadian filmmaker Adam Benzine&#8217;s Academy Award-nominated 2015 documentary &#8220;Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah&#8221; is being released on the Ethereum blockchain as an NFT, which marks the first time that an Oscar-nominated film has been made available on this format. Ten limited edition copies of the 40-minute film being auctioned on the Rarible marketplace, each with a Buy-it-Now price of 200 ETH, or roughly $360,000. The auction runs through March 18 at 9:00 a.m. EDT.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not familiar with NFTs, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/what-is-a-non-fungible-token-nft\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a><\/strong> will help introduce you to the concept.<\/p>\n<p>And if you can&#8217;t bid on the film, which already played on HBO, fear not &#8211; it will be available on digital platforms including Vimeo on Demand starting April 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new entertainment platform for filmmakers: non-fungible tokens (NFTs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":34788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2844,15],"tags":[1525,2692,2691,292,2689,2690],"class_list":["post-34786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-site-news","tag-academy-award","tag-auction","tag-blockchain","tag-documentary","tag-nft","tag-non-fungible-token"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34816,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34786\/revisions\/34816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}