LOS ANGELES, Jan. 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Liquid Media Group (“the Firm,” “Liquid Media” or “Liquid”) (Nasdaq: YVR) is proud to current iNDIEFLIX’s authentic documentary ANGST, with one of many first-ever screenings hosted solely on the blockchain for ten days beginning at midday PT right this moment, the twenty first of January (https://live.eluv.io/indieflix). Designed to boost consciousness and open up the dialog round anxiousness, this streaming occasion will profit notable psychological well being advocacy organizations, with 50% of proceeds benefiting Jack.org, Girl Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation and the iNDIEFLIX Foundation.
This occasion represents the primary on-line public entry to ANGST, beforehand proven solely in group screenings which have benefited over two million individuals worldwide. The California Authorities not too long ago adopted ANGST as a part of the statewide schooling curriculum, incorporating the movie and sources developed by iNDIEFLIX to handle the rising psychological well being disaster in younger individuals. Blockchain streaming is a pure extension of the iNDIEFLIX mission, bringing this hopeful and galvanizing movie to audiences worldwide, supporting engagement and dialogue on the iNDIEFLIX Discord channel, and elevating funds for 3 grassroots charities with youth psychological well being and suicide prevention.
Accessible to stream from January twenty first – thirty first, viewers can register for the event online by establishing their safe and easy-to-use digital pockets to say their group NFTs for social good. This pockets serves as a digital vault and allows collectors to donate by way of bank cards or cryptocurrencies, declare free group NFTs, and buy the unique ANGST NFT. For the complete expertise, be a part of the iNDIEFLIX Discord to take part within the dialog, join with the filmmakers in group, and extra.
“iNDIEFLIX’s ardour has at all times been targeted on utilizing the platform of edutainment for social good. It’s exceptionally becoming that our movie Angst – which brings equitable very important psychological well being assist for educators, college students, and their households – needs to be the movie to prepared the ground for brand new expertise for use not solely to unfold the message of the movie to a wider viewers but additionally to create new fundraising alternatives,” says ANGST Producer and iNDIEFLIX CEO Scilla Andreen.
One of many first-ever screenings to make use of blockchain expertise and incorporate NFTs for social good, iNDIEFLIX can be dropping an NFT assortment targeted on the dialog round psychological well being to coincide with the streaming occasion and all containing streamable video property created together with the ANGST movie. The gathering contains Revelation (to normalize and tackle our Most Widespread Fears), claimable upon registration with a movie preview, ANGST (donate to obtain the ‘why we made this unique video with the movie administrators, two actions from the artistic coping toolkit, and a digital poster), Motion (Suggestions & Tips so you’ll be able to hack your mind to create calm together with video), and Change, a particular thanks that can be airdropped to the group following the occasion.
The method of claiming a free NFT is as simple as creating an Eluvio wallet from the occasion web page https://reside.eluv.io/indieflix. Beginning midday Pacific Time Friday, January 21 via Sunday, January 31, customers can display screen the movie straight on this web site. Inside the screening, customers are provided the second Motion NFT and buy the complete movie NFT ANGST. Ron Thomson, CEO of Liquid Group, states, “Liquid stands firmly in assist of the work that iNDIEFLIX is creating. We’re excited that this occasion is bringing highly effective content material to world audiences whereas demonstrating, by way of our partnership with Eluvio, how Liquid can help Impartial movie and TV producers with approachable functions of blockchain expertise, together with tokenization and NFTs.”
Provides Eluvio co-founder and CEO Michelle Munson, “NFTs are constructed round communities, so we’re delighted to supply our first collection in a set particularly targeted on the dialog of psychological well being and minting a few of the key supporting property on the blockchain.”
Included within the Liquid Media Group programming across the screening would be the panel “Blockchain Media For Social Good – That includes the iNDIEFLIX movie Angst.” Panelists embrace Ron Thomson – Liquid Media Group CEO, Scilla Andreen – iNDIEFLIX founder and CEO, and Michelle Munson – Eluvio co-founder and CEO moderated by Deadline’s Dade Hayes, which can be solely screened on Deadline on January twenty first.
This screening is the primary as a part of the Liquid/Eluvio Blockchain Framework at the moment in growth, designed to additional ship on Liquid’s mission to empower filmmakers in analyzing, financing, monetizing, and distributing their content material.
About iNDIEFLIX
iNDIEFLIX Group Inc is a worldwide ‘edutainment’ streaming service that creates, promotes, and helps social influence movies to make optimistic change on the earth. iNDIEFLIX is a part of the Liquid Media Household of firms.
Further info is accessible at www.iNDIEFLIX.com
About Eluvio
Eluvio is reworking the administration, distribution, and economics of premium digital content material. The Eluvio Content material Cloth is a utility blockchain community for owner-controlled storage, distribution, and monetization of digital content material at scale. It offers reside and file-based content material publishing, transcoding, packaging, sequencing, and dynamic and static distribution, and minting of by-product NFTs for all ranges of content material experiences. Prospects of Eluvio embrace FOX, MGM Studios, SONY Footage, and others. Eluvio LIVE, powered by the Eluvio Content material Cloth, offers ticketed streaming occasions and media marketplaces from world artists together with the Black Eyed Peas, Rita Ora, and others. Eluvio is led by Emmy Award-winning technologists, Michelle Munson and Serban Simu, founders and inventors of Aspera, a pioneer in digital video transport expertise that was acquired by IBM, and a core crew of innovators. Based mostly in Berkeley, California, Eluvio has acquired quite a few business awards together with the celebrated 2020 Engineering Excellence Award by the Hollywood Skilled Affiliation. https://live.eluv.io
About Liquid Media Group Ltd.
Liquid Media Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: YVR) is a enterprise options firm empowering unbiased IP creators. Liquid’s end-to-end answer will allow skilled video (movie/TV and online game) creation, packaging, financing, supply, and monetization, empowering IP creators to take their skilled content material from inception via the complete course of to monetization.
Further info is accessible at www.LiquidMediaGroup.co
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