THE ABSENCE IS ALWAYS PRESENT introduces a new paradigm of fundraising for independent cinema. It is a multi-year, multi-disciplinary concept that marries art, photography and film in fresh, new, exciting ways utilizing blockchain and NFT technologies.
At its core, THE ABSENCE IS ALWAYS PRESENT is a feature film about grief and loss. During the pre-production process, through additional artwork and collectibles by writer/director Jason Charnick and collaborations with other artists, we can explore the concepts of these uniquely human emotions in various ways while raising the funds necessary to shoot the films themselves.
LONG BEACH LIFTED marks a new milestone in the young history of Film3. Featuring a full-length Snoop Dogg music video and 10 accompanying short-form video segments, Long Beach Lifted represents the next wave of community created storytelling.
Lifted proudly showcases legendary hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg’s hometown of Long Beach, California, affectionately known as the LBC. With gorgeous cinematic imagery and exhibited in a unique 3D gallery, an extremely limited number of tickets to experience Long Beach Lifted will be available on both the Ethereum and Tezos blockchains.
THE 29 PALMS COLLECTION is a collection of 29 individual 1/1’s including photography and experimental films chroncling NiftyFilm founder Jason Charnick’s time on his 2022 annual writer’s retreat in Twentynine Palms, California. The 29 items will be available for a limited time only at a price of only 0.029Ξ. The collection drop August 29. More details coming soon!
LATE NIGHT DREADS is a dark and exciting new NFT anthology web series, combining film and collectibility in ways never before seen in web3. At its essence, LATE NIGHT DREADS are short, dramatic adaptations of various urban legends, tall tales and popular two-sentence horror stories.
The stories are told in new and unique ways that you can collect and trade, at a price everyone can afford. And as we add value and utility to the scarcest episodes in the collection, rest assured that LATE NIGHT DREADS will entertain you like never before and for a long time to come.
NiftyFilm Classics reimagines earlier Upstart Film Collective releases for the NFT age! Enjoy our earlier out-of-print short films as 1/1 collectibles or purchase a viewing copy of the award-winning feature documentary Getting Over for less than the price of a DVD!
Upstart Film Collective’s earliest NFT experimentations are still available on OpenSea. From motion graphics to motion cards to some of the earliest works by NFT artist Jonathan Winbush, see what got us excited about the potential of web3 back in early 2021.