... Whose Story Do I See?

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Hunger, pollution, debt, deforestation..
Why are we still paying for them with our taxes?

Selected films

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Discussion after the presentations at the BWP seminar on the financial crisis: putting together a civil society response.

Date of Production: 
Oct 2008
Author: 
Zoe Young
Length: 
20min.
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Speakers respond to comments and questions from participants in the Bretton Woods Project Seminar on the Financial Crisis - Putting together a coherent civil society response.

Date of Production: 
Oct 2008
Author: 
Zoe Young
Length: 
20min.
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Economic Nobel Price Winner Joseph Stiglitz speaks in front of the UN general assembly on the current economic crisis

source: un

Date of Production: 
Oct 2008
Author: 
kuros
Length: 
12min.
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Bretton Woods Project seminar on the Financial Crisis - putting together a coherent civil society response.

Date of Production: 
Oct 2008
Author: 
zoe young
Length: 
3min.
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On the Market and Policy Origins of the International Financial Crisis...
Economist from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London speaks at the Bretton Woods Project seminar on the Financial Crisis - Putting Together a Coherent Civil Society Response.

Go here to view the powerpoint presentation.

Date of Production: 
Oct 2008
Author: 
zoe young
Length: 
20min.
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The Financial Crisis Of 2007-8: Why And What Next?

Economist from the School of Oriental and African Studies speaks on the financial crisis, BWP seminar.

Go here for the presentation powerpoint.

Date of Production: 
Oct 2008
Author: 
zoe young
Length: 
16min.
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Indigenous Peoples' representatives and organizations were angered by the final Report of the Permanent Forum on Climate Change, which ignored their stated concerns about the World Bank's carbon trading projects (REDD), and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

Date of Production: 
May 2008
Author: 
SommerFilms
Length: 
35min.
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Welcome to a world without rules: How tax havens and secrecy contributed to the financial crisis.

Tax havens and financial secrecy have driven the corrupt behaviour underlying the global financial crisis. Any moves to reform the financial system need to tackle these issues head on.

Date of Production: 
Oct 2008
Author: 
Zoe Young
Length: 
16min.
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This video, featuring Sting and Rhythms del Mundo, has been produced by the Artist Project Earth had been financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), UNEP, World Bank and Global Initiatives. The irony of involving the World Bank, whose massive fossil fuel lending increased last year, seems to be lost on all those involved.

Date of Production: 
Jan 2009
Author: 
GEFSecretariat
Length: 
5min.
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Economist Mark Weisbrot discussed the current economic crisis and considered the choice of the IMF as a future global finance regulator. The IMF's failure to provide advance warning of most of the major financial crises of the last 15 years and its record of suggesting inappropriate remedies after the fact raise serious questions about its ability to perform this function.

Date of Production: 
Oct 2008
Author: 
CEPR
Length: 
23min.