representation, you need to get actors," Mike Musante, co-founder of crypto-powered filmmaking platform Decentralized Pictures, told Decrypt. "To get actors, you need to know people. Most places don't take unsolicited submissions, so to get people to just read your project, even if it's great, is exceedingly difficult—again, unless you know people or you have some special inside information."

As VP of Production and Acquisitions at American Zoetrope, the production company founded by "The Godfather" director Francis Ford Coppola, Musante is intimately familiar with the obstacles that the industry throws in the path of emerging filmmakers.

The problem, he explained, is that the film industry is insular and decision-making in Hollywood is very centralized. Because studios and production companies have very small development teams, they find themselves "drinking from a firehose" of pitches from prospective filmmakers, and take a risk-averse approach to producing scripts.