Filmmaker Dallas Santana , has been in the cryptocurrency and NFT space for over 5 years as a true innovator and maverick. His rise to success started with good fortune when his journey took him from his small country town to bigger dreams in Los Angeles . Within days of arriving he ended up in a film directing class at AFI ( American Film Institute) and signed up for the “approach to directing” class. When he arrived for the class, thousands of students were shoving each other to get into the tiny classroom. Dallas was one of only a dozen or so lucky students who had signed up for directing class only to find out Oscar Winning Director Icon Clint Eastwood would be teaching their class.. Dallas went on and later directed an action packed outdoor documentary and action sports series with the heir to James Bond, and directed a series for CBS alongside the producer of Twilight ( Imprint Entertainment). Dallas since than has directed and written for television series, motion pictures and documentaries, and had his photography seen on covers of fashion and lifestyles magazines, and it all came full circle to recognize that he comes from a family truly immersed in the arts. His grandmother and grandfather were influences in his life and were accomplished artists/photographers and documentary film makers and art professors whose own art collection set a record at Christie’s Auction Hong Kong. His mother was a real inspiration in his life as a photographer and journalist and mother who moved her son out to the countryside before he was born to give him an immersion in nature. When his mother passed away in April, 2020 in the middle of the pandemic, Dallas got busy with the ambition to go forward with one of his most treasured post apocalyptic series “The 9th Raider” he had been in development on for 4 years. “My vision for this project is to bring about change forever in Hollywood, for those like me that have had to struggle through building a career in the arts and film arts, I fell in love with the opportunities that building an entire movie around NFT’s and what it could afford” said Dallas.His project “The 9th Raider” has received tremendous praise from NFT artists, collectors, NFT and Crypto exchanges around the world and has been connected to over 200 million online just in the preliminary process of introducing the film to audiences around the world.