Yi Zhou, a Chinese film director, has become the latest celebrity to participate in an NFTs fundraising campaign to aid Ukrainians affected by the Russian invasion.
Yi Zhou has joined the NFT fever by announcing a collection of four NFTs with proceeds going to Ukraine. Four short films about peace are being turned into non-fungible tokens by the director (NFTs).
The short film NFTs are titled in Greek, including “ειρήνη #1, ειρήνη #2, ειρήνη#3, ειρήνη #4”, which means peace.
Each NFT film will be minted at a cost of $25,000 and will be sold only on the OpenSea marketplace. The goal of the campaign is to raise $100,000.
In 2012, Jackie Chan and Princess, as well as actress Clotilde Courau, starred in one of Yi Zhou’s most successful short films. The focus of the film was on combating climate change.
In 2016, Zhou was also invited to create a short film for World Ocean Day by UNESCO Paris. Her work in the short film industry has centered on unique world experiences.
“Film is art, and it’s an expression of our time,” Zhou remarked of her current endeavor. Because we are living in a moment of crisis, art should be used to serve and correct shattered reality.”
The film industry is the latest to embrace non-fungible tokens, with the producers of the 2018 film ‘Prospect’ creating an NFT-based cinematic universe that will be fully independent of financial and distribution partners just recently.
Time Studios teamed up with renowned cartoon NFT producers in January to introduce the NFT characters Toy Boogers and Smilesssvrs to Kids TV. AMC Studios also collaborated with Orange Comet, an NFT production studio, to develop ‘The Walking Dead’ NFTs.
What’s more, Zhou’s short film NFTs are similar to the NFT and short video creation platform Chingari, which is situated in India. Bollywood actors can use the site to create NFTs of their sequences.
YouTube, the world’s largest video streaming and publishing platform, has embraced the phenomena of short video NFTs, announcing Web3 and NFT tools to allow artists turn ‘YouTube Shorts’ into non-fungible tokens.