In this two-hour conversation, Bitcoin For The Arts founder Dion Wilson sits down with Alana Mediavilla, the Puerto Rican filmmaker behind the award-winning documentary Dirty Coin and founder of Campo Libre in San Juan.

Alana spent more than a decade inside Silicon Valley producing for Google, Apple, PayPal, Volkswagen, and Volvo, including four years as a video producer for Google Cloud. In 2020 she walked away, moved her family home to Puerto Rico, and built the most important documentary on Bitcoin mining ever made. Dirty Coin has since been screened in over 200 cities through a community-hosted distribution model and won Best National Documentary in Puerto Rico, the first English-language film ever to do so.

This is the full story: a photographer father at Kodak, a Cuban mother whose family left Havana under Fidel, the personal so ...