ProposalsProposal 800
ProposalsProposal 800
TL;DR
Basepaint is a documentary about pixel artists worldwide who have been collaboratively creating a piece of art online and onchain every day for the past year and a half.
The film will explore their personal lives, how Basepaint has transformed them, and how they are part of a growing movement that has the potential to continue indefinitely.
This proposal seeks $19,000 USDC from Nouns to co-sponsor the film alongside Base, Decentralized Pictures (Co-founded by Roman Coppola, with Sofia Coppola on the board, bringing filmmaking expertise and industry credibility), and Pet3rPan.
The documentary will expose Nouns to a new audience, with distribution through Base, Decentralized Pictures, potential streaming platform deals, global film festival submissions, and presentations at crypto, art and film conferences.
Medium-length documentary film (40-45 minutes) | Ask: $19,000 USDC
🎬 THE PLAN
Our production will involve over 20 in-depth online interviews with Basepaint artists. We will uncover the most impactful and surprising stories – those where Basepaint has genuinely transformed an artist's life. Following these interviews, local film crews will capture B-roll and drone footage to visually enrich the narrative.
The documentary will take viewers on a journey, starting with the fundamental concept of a pixel and progressing to an intimate look at the artists' daily routines within the Basepaint ecosystem. This will be achieved through a blend of graphics, animations, and live-action footage.
Our primary distribution focus will be on the Base ecosystem and Decentralized Pictures.
We will also submit the documentary to film festivals, targeting 40 of the best-rated festivals globally.
We will leverage Base's extensive reach through their website, newsletter, and social channels to ensure maximum visibility within the community.
The film will also be coined on Zora.
Our ambitious goal is to inspire a significant increase in participation, aiming to 100x the number of artists and 1000x the number of collectors on Basepaint.
Through this focused distribution and the compelling nature of the story, we believe we will expose Nouns to a very cool new audience within the Base ecosystem and beyond, potentially onboarding new members to the Nouns community.
We will also explore the potential to reach a streaming platform, further amplifying the film's reach and exposure for our sponsors.
Following a Nouns Camp call and taking some feedback onboard, we will actively apply for speech and presentation opportunities at conferences around the world – specifically targeting crypto, art and film conferences – to discuss the groundbreaking concept of documentaries funded by Nouns and its partners.
⌐◨-◨ Why Nouns?
Powerful Partnerships: This project brings together Nouns with major players in the crypto and film spaces: Base and Decentralized Pictures.
Nouns inspired the Basepaint founders and the project with daily 24-hour mints and the concept of the infinite work of art.
Many Nouners and Nounders are big Basepaint fans.
We will have the interviewees talk about Nouns while we show Nouns relevant Basepaint themes:
Nouns has sponsored 3 days' themes in the early days:
As did the Yellow collective: https://basepaint.xyz/canvas/162
Massive Distribution Potential: The focused distribution strategy leveraging Base's marketing channels offers great reach within a highly relevant audience.
Plus Decentralized Pictures expertise and experience in the film industry to help us negotiate the best launch strategy for our documentary.
Open-source spirit: Basepaint documents an onchain, daily collaborative art project-mirroring Nouns’ and ETH's ethos of public goods creativity.
Onchain Presence: Coining the film on Zora.
Community growth: By spotlighting pixel artists, the film cultivates new contributors and potential collectors for Nouns.
Long-term impact: A documentary lives on forever, continuously drawing attention back to Nouns’ governance model.
Broader Exposure: Participation in film festivals and targeted conference presentations will introduce the Basepaint story, and its sponsors (including Nouns), to diverse global audiences in both the traditional film and art world and the wider crypto space.
The film will be presented by the 3 main sponsors. We will feature Nouns as a co-presenter alongside Base and Decentralized Pictures in opening credits, promotional art, festival materials and conferences.
Base | Nouns | Decentralized Pictures
📽️ SUBJECTS
🎨🎨 Basepainters
Dean Harvey (New Zealand) https://warpcast.com/theharveydean
Bombadil (Kazakhstan) https://warpcast.com/bombadiluss
Jude Buffum (USA) https://warpcast.com/judebuffum
Pinkyblu (Argentina) https://warpcast.com/pinkyblu
qabqabqab (Brazil) https://warpcast.com/qabqabqab
taylor.dotfan.eth (USA) https://warpcast.com/gtm
Ticklish (UK) https://warpcast.com/ticklish-art.eth
nimashah (Iran) https://warpcast.com/nimashah
Manytle (Thailand) https://warpcast.com/manytle.eth
numo (Germany) https://warpcast.com/numo
creamymommy.eth https://warpcast.com/creamy
Brave 👾 (Brazil) https://warpcast.com/bravepxl
Dzeeroggs (Germany) https://warpcast.com/dzeeroggs
NoWonder (Indonesia) https://warpcast.com/notoriousman
BloodyPari.eth https://x.com/Paris13sh
Olotus (USA) https://warpcast.com/olotus
Cryptologist (USA) https://warpcast.com/cryptologist99
And many others!
As well as some important key players:
Peter 'pet3rpan' (Full set holder/Collector and Associate producer) https://warpcast.com/pet3rpan
Drake 🎩 (Full set holder/Collector) https://warpcast.com/taliskye
Backseats (Full set holder/Collector) https://warpcast.com/backseats
0xnader (Developer) https://warpcast.com/0xnader
Zach Herring (Basepaint Co-founder) https://warpcast.com/zherring
W1NTΞR (Basepaint Co-founder) https://warpcast.com/w1nt3r
📅 THE SCHEDULE
💰 THE ASK (Nouns) - $19,000 USDC
TOTAL BUDGET: $78,000
💰 Funding breakdown
🚚 DELIVERY / DISTRIBUTION
🫂 THE TEAM
Leo Clark (Director/Producer/Editor)
https://warpcast.com/leoclark.eth
Award-winning documentary director at
Forever grateful to the Nouns community 🙏
Marcelo Antunez (Co-director/VFX Artist/Editor/Color grader)
https://warpcast.com/marceloantunez
Award-winning Brazilian film director, producer, and screenwriter, renowned for multiple critically acclaimed box office successes
Leo Matchett (Executive Producer)
Co-Founder / CEO / Board at
https://decentralized.pictures/
(Co-founded by Roman Coppola, with Sofia Coppola on the board, bringing filmmaking expertise and industry credibility)
Pet3rPan (Associate producer)
Local crews, soundtrack composer, audio mixer and additional editor - TBC
Thank you for considering our proposal. We hope to bring the Basepaint story to life and inspire a global audience🙏
TL;DR
Basepaint is a documentary about pixel artists worldwide who have been collaboratively creating a piece of art online and onchain every day for the past year and a half.
The film will explore their personal lives, how Basepaint has transformed them, and how they are part of a growing movement that has the potential to continue indefinitely.
This proposal seeks $19,000 USDC from Nouns to co-sponsor the film alongside Base, Decentralized Pictures (Co-founded by Roman Coppola, with Sofia Coppola on the board, bringing filmmaking expertise and industry credibility), and Pet3rPan.
The documentary will expose Nouns to a new audience, with distribution through Base, Decentralized Pictures, potential streaming platform deals, global film festival submissions, and presentations at crypto, art and film conferences.
Medium-length documentary film (40-45 minutes) | Ask: $19,000 USDC
🎬 THE PLAN
Our production will involve over 20 in-depth online interviews with Basepaint artists. We will uncover the most impactful and surprising stories – those where Basepaint has genuinely transformed an artist's life. Following these interviews, local film crews will capture B-roll and drone footage to visually enrich the narrative.
The documentary will take viewers on a journey, starting with the fundamental concept of a pixel and progressing to an intimate look at the artists' daily routines within the Basepaint ecosystem. This will be achieved through a blend of graphics, animations, and live-action footage.
Our primary distribution focus will be on the Base ecosystem and Decentralized Pictures.
We will also submit the documentary to film festivals, targeting 40 of the best-rated festivals globally.
We will leverage Base's extensive reach through their website, newsletter, and social channels to ensure maximum visibility within the community.
The film will also be coined on Zora.
Our ambitious goal is to inspire a significant increase in participation, aiming to 100x the number of artists and 1000x the number of collectors on Basepaint.
Through this focused distribution and the compelling nature of the story, we believe we will expose Nouns to a very cool new audience within the Base ecosystem and beyond, potentially onboarding new members to the Nouns community.
We will also explore the potential to reach a streaming platform, further amplifying the film's reach and exposure for our sponsors.
Following a Nouns Camp call and taking some feedback onboard, we will actively apply for speech and presentation opportunities at conferences around the world – specifically targeting crypto, art and film conferences – to discuss the groundbreaking concept of documentaries funded by Nouns and its partners.
⌐◨-◨ Why Nouns?
Powerful Partnerships: This project brings together Nouns with major players in the crypto and film spaces: Base and Decentralized Pictures.
Nouns inspired the Basepaint founders and the project with daily 24-hour mints and the concept of the infinite work of art.
Many Nouners and Nounders are big Basepaint fans.
We will have the interviewees talk about Nouns while we show Nouns relevant Basepaint themes:
Nouns has sponsored 3 days' themes in the early days:
As did the Yellow collective: https://basepaint.xyz/canvas/162
Massive Distribution Potential: The focused distribution strategy leveraging Base's marketing channels offers great reach within a highly relevant audience.
Plus Decentralized Pictures expertise and experience in the film industry to help us negotiate the best launch strategy for our documentary.
Open-source spirit: Basepaint documents an onchain, daily collaborative art project-mirroring Nouns’ and ETH's ethos of public goods creativity.
Onchain Presence: Coining the film on Zora.
Community growth: By spotlighting pixel artists, the film cultivates new contributors and potential collectors for Nouns.
Long-term impact: A documentary lives on forever, continuously drawing attention back to Nouns’ governance model.
Broader Exposure: Participation in film festivals and targeted conference presentations will introduce the Basepaint story, and its sponsors (including Nouns), to diverse global audiences in both the traditional film and art world and the wider crypto space.
The film will be presented by the 3 main sponsors. We will feature Nouns as a co-presenter alongside Base and Decentralized Pictures in opening credits, promotional art, festival materials and conferences.
Base | Nouns | Decentralized Pictures
📽️ SUBJECTS
🎨🎨 Basepainters
Dean Harvey (New Zealand) https://warpcast.com/theharveydean
Bombadil (Kazakhstan) https://warpcast.com/bombadiluss
Jude Buffum (USA) https://warpcast.com/judebuffum
Pinkyblu (Argentina) https://warpcast.com/pinkyblu
qabqabqab (Brazil) https://warpcast.com/qabqabqab
taylor.dotfan.eth (USA) https://warpcast.com/gtm
Ticklish (UK) https://warpcast.com/ticklish-art.eth
nimashah (Iran) https://warpcast.com/nimashah
Manytle (Thailand) https://warpcast.com/manytle.eth
numo (Germany) https://warpcast.com/numo
creamymommy.eth https://warpcast.com/creamy
Brave 👾 (Brazil) https://warpcast.com/bravepxl
Dzeeroggs (Germany) https://warpcast.com/dzeeroggs
NoWonder (Indonesia) https://warpcast.com/notoriousman
BloodyPari.eth https://x.com/Paris13sh
Olotus (USA) https://warpcast.com/olotus
Cryptologist (USA) https://warpcast.com/cryptologist99
And many others!
As well as some important key players:
Peter 'pet3rpan' (Full set holder/Collector and Associate producer) https://warpcast.com/pet3rpan
Drake 🎩 (Full set holder/Collector) https://warpcast.com/taliskye
Backseats (Full set holder/Collector) https://warpcast.com/backseats
0xnader (Developer) https://warpcast.com/0xnader
Zach Herring (Basepaint Co-founder) https://warpcast.com/zherring
W1NTΞR (Basepaint Co-founder) https://warpcast.com/w1nt3r
📅 THE SCHEDULE
💰 THE ASK (Nouns) - $19,000 USDC
TOTAL BUDGET: $78,000
💰 Funding breakdown
🚚 DELIVERY / DISTRIBUTION
🫂 THE TEAM
Leo Clark (Director/Producer/Editor)
https://warpcast.com/leoclark.eth
Award-winning documentary director at
Forever grateful to the Nouns community 🙏
Marcelo Antunez (Co-director/VFX Artist/Editor/Color grader)
https://warpcast.com/marceloantunez
Award-winning Brazilian film director, producer, and screenwriter, renowned for multiple critically acclaimed box office successes
Leo Matchett (Executive Producer)
Co-Founder / CEO / Board at
https://decentralized.pictures/
(Co-founded by Roman Coppola, with Sofia Coppola on the board, bringing filmmaking expertise and industry credibility)
Pet3rPan (Associate producer)
Local crews, soundtrack composer, audio mixer and additional editor - TBC
Thank you for considering our proposal. We hope to bring the Basepaint story to life and inspire a global audience🙏
