- Fruition Production has announced an upcoming documentary on XRP that will air in November on Apple TV, Amazon, and other leading platforms.
- The producers say that Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has declined to appear in the documentary but that it has done extensive interviews with CTO David Schwartz.
It’s been a landmark year for XRP, with the crypto finally putting the dark cloud of an SEC lawsuit that has hung over it for years behind it. And now, it’s set to be capped with a documentary that delves into the ten-year journey that has seen XRP become one of the world’s most important crypto projects.
Fruition Productions, a Los Angeles, California-based studio that focuses on emerging technologies, announced the documentary today.
We are excited to announce that we are targeting the release of XRP unleashed for this November! We’ve taken matters into our own hands and are pursuing self distribution. This means the documentary will be available on a few platforms like Apple TV and Amazon without their…
— Fruition Productions (@Fruition_Films) August 25, 2024
The studio revealed that it would be self-distributing the film, eliminating the middlemen who usually get a massive cut from the hard work of content creators. However, it will avail the documentary on some major platforms that allow the creator to retain control over their content, such as Amazon and Apple TV.
Incidentally, crypto was created for this very purpose. Satoshi launched Bitcoin to be an alternative to legacy systems that charge hefty fees, marginalizing billions at the expense of a few elites. Since then, several other projects have sprung up to address specific niches, such as Ethereum with smart contracts and IOTA with machine-to-machine communications.
XRP and the underlying XRPL have focused on eliminating the middleman in the financial system, offering one of the cheapest peer-to-peer funds transfer systems. Where the existing systems serve particular markets, XRP offers the most cost-efficient underlying network for these TradFi operators.
“Hollywood in general is in freefall so there is less appetite more than ever on new content that isn’t from established providers, this means just like we’ve done the whole time we have to remain self financed and produce the project without their assistance,” Fruition revealed.
The XRP Documentary
Fruition Productions has not revealed much about the documentary’s contents. However, responding to a question on X, the studio revealed that it had reached out to Ripple management to get involved in the documentary, but apparently, the company had been unwilling to participate, except for CTO David Schwartz.
Brad and his executive team are not willing to appear although we did interview David. When you see the scope of what we’re covering, I actually don’t blame them at all. Resistance in the form of requiring lots of story compromises, and then arbitrary celebrity.
