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The film industry’s interest in NFTs has been increasing consistently over the past few years for many reasons: NFTs can help protect the copyright of movies and other creative arts, and filmmakers can use NFTs to sell their digital content.
To further explore this intersection of film and blockchain, the New Media Film Festival has partnered with CharityNFT. to launch the first-ever NFT Collection for Audience Choice Awards.
Filmmakers and content creators are now competing for the 2025 Audience Choice Awards using the CharityNFT platform, which allows a global audience to vote for their favorite NFTs in this innovative competition. All proceeds from the NFT collection are donated to charities supporting art and culture, education, and environmental initiatives.
From June 4–6, 2025, the 16th annual New Media Film Festival will showcase 80 new media films and tech-forward content from 14 countries, including: USA, UK, South Korea, Netherlands, Hong Kong (China), Germany, France, Denmark, Canada, Bulgaria, Brazil, Australia, and Argentina.
This groundbreaking opportunity is completely free for participants of the festival. Audience votes are recorded on the blockchain to ensure transparency, alongside donations made to the featured charities.
New Media Film Festival’s collaboration with CharityNFT paves the way for a transformative fusion of art, technology, and philanthropy. It represents a pivotal point where filmmakers use NFTs to support charitable causes. This is where the Hollywood film industry meets crypto for good causes.
CharityNFT: Crypto Community for Nonprofits and Philanthropists
CharityNFT is the premier NFT marketplace that allows users to create, buy, sell, auction, and donate NFTs to support charitable causes. CharityNFT uses crypto collectibles for nonprofit community engagement where users can make new friends with common interests.
Created by award-winning California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships (IFERS), CharityNFT bridges philanthropy with technology. The innovative NFT marketplace accepts both cryptocurrency and credit/debit card transactions, making it easier for mass adoption and charitable donations.
Benefits for Nonprofit Charities
- Higher Visibility and New Sources of Funding: All users on the platform are able to discover your nonprofit charity based on your mission and selected causes. Users can purchase your NFTs as well as make donations to your nonprofit charity through their personal NFT sales and auctions.
- Increased Awareness and Donations: Your nonprofit charity can create NFTs to raise awareness of your causes, missions, and achievements. Unleash your creativity: An NFT can be some variations of your logo, a photo taken at your charity function, a song written by your supporter, a ticket to your fundraising event, and so on. You can sell or auction to the highest bidder your NFTs to raise funds to support your nonprofit activities and operations.
- Donor Engagement and Community Building: In addition to you signing up as a nonprofit, your officers and supporters can sign up as regular users to create NFTs for donations to your nonprofit. Moreover, users are able to find and make new friends who share similar causes and interests. As a result, you can build a community of active and engaged donors to support your nonprofit’s mission.
- Full Automation in Donation Disbursements and Receipts: Donations are automatically sent to your crypto wallet in real time. Both your nonprofit and the donors automatically receive donation email receipts. If you have a fiscal sponsor, a percentage of those donations is sent to your fiscal sponsor according to your fiscal sponsorship agreement.
New Media Film Festival and Its Innovative Forms of Storytelling
More than just a festival, the New Media Film Festival is a community, a vibrant network of emerging and award-winning content creators, dealmakers, and visionaries. Together, they explore the cutting edge of storytelling and forge paths for the future of art and entertainment.
With 25+ classic and technology categories — each judged by industry experts from BBC, HBO, Marvel, PBS, Rolling Stone, and more — the New Media Film Festival offers opportunities at an unparalleled level of access by being the early adopter of new technologies including AI generated films, touch rotation, holographic digital comics, and NFTs.