This feature documentary based on Margaret Atwood's bestselling book Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, offers a fascinating look at debt as a mental construct and traces how it influences relationships, societies, governing structures and the fate of the planet.
From award-winning director Jennifer Baichwal Manufactured Landscapes, Act of God, produced by Ravida Din (National Film Board of Canada), Payback will have its World Premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.
Read the book... can hardly wait to see the movie.
Who would have thought that it would be possible to explain money, debt and economics using the skills and examples of a literary critic? And to find yourself giggling while reading it?
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