Palm Springs, CA — June 14, 2025 — Bitcoin was on everyone’s lips at last week’s FreedomFest, where an unprecedented wave of orange-pilled conversation swept across panels, networking events, and luncheons.
The festival, branded as “the world’s largest gathering of free minds,” featured over 160 keynote speakers—including Ross Ulbricht, Spike Cohen, Cornel West, Adam Carolla, and Kat Timpf—underscoring the event’s broad appeal and intellectual range.
In the midst of this packed agenda, The Anthem Film Festival, FreedomFest’s official film festival, showcased Dirty Coin: The Bitcoin Mining Documentary, a provocative new documentary that dives headfirst into the misunderstood world of bitcoin mining.
Directed by Puerto Rican filmmaker Alana Mediavilla, Dirty Coin screened to a room of skeptics, true believers, and curious onlookers navigating a festival lineup filled with bold ideas.
Competing against popular sessions such as “Lessons from a Serial Entrepreneur and Modern Day Industrialist,” “Digital Enslavement: Unveiling the Weaponized Architecture of Totalitarian Control,” and “How the Tuttle Twins Sparked a Socialist Meltdown in Argentina,” the film managed to stand out and spark a conversation of its own.
Billed as the first feature-length documentary to take an on-the-ground, global look at bitcoin mining, Dirty Coin explores how mining isn’t just a misunderstood energy sink—it may be a crucial force for building freer, fairer, and even greener economies.
Following the screening, Mediavilla was joined on stage for an intimate Q&A by British comedian and monetary historian Dominic Frisby and Israeli entrepreneur and Bitcoin strategist Efrat Fenigson.
The discussion quickly turned dynamic, as the panelists fielded sharp questions from attendees:
- “Is Bitcoin really being used as electronic cash, or is that a relic of Satoshi’s dream?”
- “Are we living on a forked version of Bitcoin—and does it matter?”
- “What happens when the last bitcoin is mined?
Frisby, known for his wit and depth, offered historical context and sharp insights. Fenigson emphasized Bitcoin’s real-world adoption in regions where fiat systems have failed.
Mediavilla grounded the conversation with her goal for the film: “I didn’t make this to preach to the choir,” she said. “I made it so your skeptical cousin might sit down, watch it, and start asking the right questions.”
Dirty Coin takes viewers across hydro-powered rigs in Latin America, to small-town America where mining helps stabilize local grids.
With its unfiltered, hands-on storytelling, the film shows Bitcoin as a physical, philosophical, and political force shaping the future. It’s not a puff piece. It’s something far more dangerous: a compelling argument.
The Anthem Film Festival lineup featured several powerful films this year, including Alone Together, Beneath Sheep’s Clothing, and The Bird and the Bee, making Dirty Coin’s impact all the more notable.
As Bitcoin continues to gain attention—and scrutiny—Dirty Coin invites audiences into a grounded, global conversation about what this technology really means, and what kind of future it might help build.
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www.dirtycointhemovie.com
https://kinema.com/films/dirty-coin-the-bitcoin-mining-documentary-46arp1
Email: team@campolibre.film
About Dirty Coin
Dirty Coin is the debut feature-length documentary by Alana Mediavilla, produced by Campo Libre. The film has screened internationally and continues to drive demand-driven showings at theaters, conferences, and meetups around the world.
