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He disappeared forever
Today, the combined value of crypto is larger than the GDP of all but a few countries, and yet Satoshi Nakamoto opted out of the fame. “I Am Not Satoshi” will be the first major film to tell the story of Nakamoto through the eyes of his peers.
A documentary whose subject is in absentia, “I Am Not Satoshi” follows the stories of the geniuses, rogues and revolutionaries who made Bitcoin and Satoshi Nakamoto possible.
Modern cryptocurrency was born with Bitcoin in 2009
and it has forever changed the world
From Elon Musk to the nation of El Salvador, from Banksy to the NBA, from the Metaverse to Mom and Pop shops, Cryptocurrency is changing everything. The genesis of all of this came from the posting of an unknown individual on an obscure mailing list back in 2009.
Though it became an open source project, Bitcoin was invented by one individual, Satoshi Nakamoto. By all accounts the meteoric rise in the price of Bitcoin makes Nakamoto the 20th richest person in the world, and yet Nakamoto disappeared from the face of the Earth in 2011.
Or has he? Since the multi-Billionaire left the project, it became apparent that Nakamoto was a pseudonym and the real person or people behind the identity could still be involved with the project. It’s just as likely that Nakamoto has passed on or just wants to live a normal life away from the fame the Nakamoto avatar would pro- vide.
We are left with a major invention without a known inventor, a truly puzzling and frustrating situation for the history books.
The true story of bitcoin, before fact becomes myth
Separating fact from fiction, the film will breakdown who and what made Nakamoto possible. Bitcoin stands on the shoulders of giants and those who came before made it all possible. Our retelling will illuminate the lives and deaths of Cryptocurrency’s early inventors and the events that turned Bitcoin into a global financial revolution.
From a cryogenically frozen 
programer, to a revolutionary financial technologist, to a most wanted criminal and a renegade tax evader creating a schism in the whole system. Bitcoin, like other explosively revolutionary ideas, has equal capacity for greater good and greater bad. It is for those who use it to decide.
This is their story.
Investment opportunity
You can be part
of a feature film
“Cannucciari’s” 2017 groundbreaking film “Banking on Bitcoin” took Netflix by storm. It held Netflix's top 10 documentary page for over six months. Cannucciari’s storytelling aims to take “I Am Not Satoshi” to a higher level.
This is your chance to be a part of our journey. Your investment may not only receive a potential ROI+, Republic Investors who participate above the $10,000 threshold will receive name placement in the film's end credits. In honor of Satoshi Nakamoto, we will be locking those credits into the Bitcoin blockchain and you will forever be a part of this film's history.
Team
From the producer/director of “Banking on Bitcoin”
Chris Cannucciari wrote, produced and directed the feature documentary on Bitcoin, “Banking On Bitcoin, which premiered at number one on iTunes in early 2017. After its Netflix debut, the film remained in their Top Ten Documentaries list for more than six months. The film has been called a “game changer for cryptocurrency” and it continues to be referenced as the best introduction to Bitcoin.
Cannucciari began his career, documenting true stories as a Photojournalist for the Washington Post, National Geographic and AP in Rome, Italy. Cannucciari has had a long career in documentary filmmaking, beginning with his time at Vice News from 2007, working on the “Creators Project.” More recently he headed up Viceland’s #1 rated show, “Desus & Mero.” In 2019 his Feature Documentary for WIRED, “Machine Learning: Living in the Age of A.I.” premiered at Cannes Lion.
He earned the prestigious Peabody award for his five years of work with “The Onion,” his 2009 feature, “New Brooklyn’’ took two best picture awards (Canary Island Festival and SANFIC), he has earned multiple Webbys and Best Short Film, “Stanhope”(HBO), at the American Black Film Festival and the Woodstock Film Festival. His YouTube series “Great Depression Cooking with Clara’’ was one of Google’s first YouTube creator partnerships. The Show has 900k subscribers and counting.
Cannucciari has been working on “I Am Not Satoshi” for the past 4 years to create a thoroughly researched and comprehensive documentary of the greatest enduring mystery of the digital age.
Track record
Praise for
"Banking on Bitcoin"
“Banking On Bitcoin… follows the ideological battle underway between fringe utopists and mainstream capitalism” - Deadline
“Banking on Bitcoin is #2 on Film Daily’s list of “9 Best Hollywood Movies Base on Trading and Stock Market.” - Film Daily
“For anyone who wants to know about bitcoins or wants to invest in this industry, this movie is a must-watch.” - That Watch
“A Good Intro to Bitcoin in Need of a Sequel” - Nasdaq
Funding
Secured funding, and looking for help to help add all the final bells and whistles
Funding on Republic will go primarily towards:
Finishing Principal Photography: Crew, travel and physical production over the next several months as we finish the last sections of the film.
Post-Production: We’ll be working with accomplished editors, animators, composers, sound mixers and colorists to make this story really sing.
Accounting, Legal, Promotion and Marketing
A look ahead: "I Am Not Satoshi" projected timeline
September/October 2022: Finishing principal photography.
February 2022: Completing the editing process and moving towards finishing with color and sound.
Q2 2023: Completed film looking toward a premiere in Los Angeles.
Making the film
The film will take us across the globe...
...as we connect with the primary players from the birth of Bitcoin—the Cypherpunks.
Satoshi was a member of this group and an active contributor to their mailing list. The cypherpunks were Satoshi’s contemporaries and collaborators, and we’ve garnered extensive access to key players from that movement and those closest to the inception of Bitcoin.
We’ll also be talking to tech luminaries, investigators, journalists, and industry insiders to unpack the past, present, and future of Bitcoin—arcing a narrative about why Satoshi disappeared, why people are so fixated on their identity, and ultimately why this mystery still carries so much power.
The greatest mystery of the 21st century
Cannucciari’s access and approach have resulted in the first seminal film to examine the impact of the emergence of Bitcoin in the financial sector: “Banking on Bitcoin.” He now brings this approach to bear in the first film to unpack the secretive history of the origin of the world’s first billion-dollar cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin has transformed our world, for good or ill, and this film will stand as a unique perspective on where we came from and what that tells us about where we’re going.
The cult of Satoshi
“I Am Not Satoshi” will examine how a
worldwide technology can work without a central figure. The film will also delve into the many false idols who have been working to undermine Bitcoin and remake Satoshi in their own image. Asking the ultimate question: are humans willing to trust their finances in an automated leader-less system, or do they crave a central figure to forge the future of money for them?
The ultimate insiders perspective
Where other documentarians, amateur sleuths, and more than a few conspiracy theorists have focused their attention on attempting to unmask Satoshi, absent Satoshi’s desire to be known to the world there is no means to prove their identity beyond a shadow of a doubt. “I Am Not Satoshi” will unveil much more about the present and future of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency by examining Satoshi’s motives, history, and contemporaries—in order to glean a broader understanding of who Satoshi truly was, beyond just a name.
