When every major streaming platform refuses to carry your award-winning documentary, you find a different door. Eugene Jarecki, the filmmaker behind The Six Billion Dollar Man, has partnered with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey to distribute his Julian Assange film through a Bitcoin-only pay-per-view event, effectively turning the cryptocurrency into a censorship-resistant screening room.
The exclusive watch party is scheduled for June 27, 2026. Viewers can buy in at 0.01 BTC, roughly $760 at recent prices, earning the title of “Bitcoin Producer” and access to the screening plus a post-film panel featuring Edward Snowden.
A decorated film nobody wants to stream
Here’s the thing about The Six Billion Dollar Man: it’s not some fringe production scraping for credibility. The documentary won the Grand Prize for Documentary, known as l’Oeil d’Or, at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. It also received the inaugural Golden Globe for Best Documentary.
The film chronicles Assange’s life and digs into themes of press freedom, state power, and censorship. Running approximately 126 to 129 minutes, it had a limited theatrical release starting December 19, 2025. But the wider distribution pipeline apparently wanted nothing to do with it.
