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Addicted to Money (2009)
3 x 1 hour documentary series in co-production with Radio Telefis Eireann for ABC, RTE (Ireland) and S4C (Wales)Addicted to Money Website
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Everything you need to know about what caused the financial meltdown, what lies ahead, and what we all need to do to survive in the new economy.
In his typically pugnacious style, Irish economist and commentator David McWilliams surveys the wreckage of the global economy and points to the worrying, but potentially transformative challenges ahead. It is both a story of shocking collective failure and a rallying call for change. David travels the world, from Europe to Iceland to China, the US, Australia and Latin America surveying the wreckage that has been caused by the great meltdown. He discovers that this was a crisis that was avoidable, yet ironically necessary if we are to deal with the real challenge that lies just over the horizon: creating an economy that can sustain our society for the long term.
EPISODE 1 - WHO KILLED THE ECONOMY?
David McWilliams undertakes his own personal investigation to uncover who is responsible for destroying our economy. Along the way he assembles clues to discover evidence of a drugs syndicate. The drug is "easy credit" and the story is about the global addiction to the euphoric yet addictive side effects of credit; the enormous money to be made pushing the drug and the global crime gangs which emerged in the boom to fight for control over the supply of credit.
EPISODE 2 - NOWHERE TO HIDE
We journey through economic badlands as David McWilliams gives us his diagnosis; the world's economy has suffered a heart attack and we're all in shock. We travel to the far ends of the globe, witnessing the fallout on people and businesses and discover that because of the intricate links in the global economic chain, events in one country can have massive ramifications in another country, even though both countries appear to be totally unrelated to each other. From China to Iceland, the US to the UK, Australia to Ireland, people's lives have been forever changed and there is nowhere to hide.
EPISODE 3 - PEAK EVERYTHING
Ahead we face a series of complex challenges, which threaten our way of life. It's like a computer game where there are dangers at every turn: initially we must come to terms with the reality of the economic slowdown: fewer jobs, less cash, greater uncertainty. Just ahead lies "peak everything": dwindling supplies of oil, diminished world food production and, in many places, seriously depleted water and soil. And just over the horizon, perhaps the greatest threat of all, awaits a climate that is becoming increasingly inhospitable to humanity.
Awards:
Nominated for Best Documentary Series, Samsung Mobile AFI Awards, 2010.
Nominated for Best Direction in a Documentary Series, Australian Director's Guild Awards, 2010.
Nominated for Documentary: Public Broadcast AWGIE (Australian Writer's Guild) Awards, 2010.
Silver Award, Documentaries, Cinema and TV, Ulrich-Stephan Krazik, Australian Cinematography Society Awards for Western Australia, 2010
Selected for Competition, Guangzhou International Documentary Festival, 2010.
Nominated for Most Innovative Production, History Makers 2011.