Nick Sadler’s film was about five hours away from winning an Oscar, and a mysterious material would not dislodge itself from the interior of his showtime jacket. 

“Oh my fuckin’ lord. Sorry. My language,” he said. “What the fuck is that? What do I do?”

It was cat hair, it turned out, courtesy of a quiet orange cohabitant of the sun-drenched house atop a hill in Los Angeles’ cutting-edge-hip Glassell Park neighborhood where Sadler was staying. Sadler was in town from London for Oscars weekend, eager to see through the final chapter in the incredible saga of the short film he executive produced, “An Irish Goodbye.”

The film—co-directed by Tom Berkeley and Ross White—had already swept a slew of film festivals, including the BAFTAs last month. Later that night (that is, last night), the film would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short.

Sadler is a Web3 film producer. Or at the very least, a film producer who has been attempting for a number of years now to finance and promote film projects with the aid of blockchain technology. That hasn’t proven so easy.

He has struggled to get Web3-native projects—which in some cases sell NFTs to help fund production—off the ground. “An Irish Goodbye,” on the other hand, was funded entirely traditionally through Sadler

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