Films

DEBTOCRACY // ΧΡΕΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ

13 May 2011

"For the first time in Greece a documentary produced by the audience. “Debtocracy” seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media. The documentary will be distributed free by the end of March without usage rights and broadcasted and subtitled in at least three languages. Debtocracy International Version par BitsnBytes

The End of Poverty ? - Movie Review

11 August 2010

The most articulate film to date describing the modern means and methods of the free market enslavement of undeveloped countries This film does not so much expose poverty as it attempts to get to the root cause of it. Exposing poverty often takes the form of videos of starving children and first person stories of those existing on the verge of death from day to day. There is some of that in this film but it develops those scenes into a compelling argument exposing what might be called (...)

UK Film Screening Features Panel with Leading Voices on World Poverty

28 November 2009

Press release: The British Film Institute and Share The World’s Resources will be screening the award winning documentary ‘The End of Poverty?’ at the BFI Southbank on 12th December 2009 at 2pm. UK Film Screening Features Panel with Leading Voices on World Poverty 26th November 2009 - Published by Share The World’s Resources The screening will be followed by a lively panel discussion and Q&A session led by Colin Prescod, chair of the Institute of Race Relations. Panellists will include (...)

The 2008 International Critics’ Week at the Cannes festival selected Philippe Diaz’ movie The End of Poverty ?

13 May 2008

With so much wealth in the world, how is it possible that there should be so much poverty ? The end of poverty ? takes us back to the beginning of the modern age, which is also the beginning of the colonial period, to understand not just when but also how it all began. International experts as well as victims contribute to our understanding when they point at colonialism, market economy, the Third World Debt, the appropriation of land and natural resources as factors that maintain and indeed develop poverty in Third World countries, condemning those who attempt to survive to a daily struggle against an increasingly hostile environment. Isn’t it time for us to wonder why 25% of the world population use up over 85% of the planet's resources ?