Reflecting Images – Panorama
Give Us the Money Bosse Lindquist
WORLD PREMIERE
Sweden, 2012 HDcam, color, 58 min Director: Bosse Lindquist Photography: Sven Lindahl Screenplay: Bosse Lindquist Editing: Pier Franceschi, Rodney Guest Sound: Calle Wachtmeister Music: Markus Enochson, Andreas Kleerup Production: David Herdies for Momento Film Executive Production: Don Edkins & Nick Fraser & Mette Hoffmann Meyer for Steps International Screening Copy: Steps International
Bosse Lindquist:
Once, I Was Korean (2002) The Rebels (2005) The Genius and the Boys (2009) McCheat & Co (2010) WikiRebels (2010)
In the early 1990s, a group of people including pop stars Bono and Bob Geldof decided that something radical needed to happen to bring an end to poverty. They used smart PR and worldwide campaigns such as “Drop the Debt” and “Make Poverty History” to turn the fight against poverty into an appealing subject. Give Us the Money interviews Bono, Geldof, Bill Gates, Gordon Brown, critical African economists and others. It analyzes the successes and failures of these global campaigns, and explores in detail the collective efforts of celebrities, leftist revolutionaries and conservative members of Congress. Made as part of the worldwide “Why Poverty?” campaign, this documentary poses the old question of how we can do good. The economist Dambisa Moyo criticizes the fact that thanks to Live Aid, the image of wretched African children has come to symbolize Africa. Bono and Geldof have also been accused of arrogance: why do they talk to the President of the United States and the Pope, but not to Africans themselves? Bono’s “One” campaign has now set up offices in several African countries, and there have been many changes in both Western development aid policies and in Africa itself. “We are side players, not drivers,” says Bono.
Good People Go to Hell, Saved People Go to Heaven Holly Hardman
USA, 2012 HDcam, color, 87 min Director: Holly Hardman Photography: Petr Cikhart, Samuel Henriques, Scott Shelley Editing: Cameron Clendaniel Sound: Daniel Brooks, Franz Moore Music: Michel Haumont Production: Holly Hardman for Gobbo Films/Baraka Productions Executive Production: Nicolas Rossier for Baraka Productions Screening Copy: Baraka Productions Website: www.leftbehindinlouisiana.com
Holly Hardman:
White Trash at Heart (fiction, 1992) Besotted (fiction, 2002)
www.hollyhardman.com
WORLD PREMIERE
The hurricanes that have been sweeping the poor state of Louisiana in recent years have led evangelists to believe that the end of the world is now truly at hand. Among the ruins of their washed-away homes, in dingy trailers or in one of the many churches they pray, waiting for the deluge to come. We follow some of them during their daily battle to make a living, helping the even less fortunate, and winning converts – because it’s still not too late to be “saved.” Mother Mitsi lives in a trailer with her ultra-religious family. She’s proud of her devout teen son, a singer, but worries about her oldest, who is struggling with his faith. An evangelist named Lance, also living in a trailer, goes around with a giant cross on his back spreading the word of God – and he’s often successful, too. We also follow a megachurch minister who has his own agenda when helping the victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This is a portrait of a complex and impoverished part of the United States, where various evangelists, each in his or her unique way – and sometimes with private motives – try to promote conservative Christianity.
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