MONEY & LIFE is an essay style documentary that investigates the many faces of money. This cinematic odyssey takes us on a journey, exploring the origins of money to connecting the systemic dots on the current global financial crisis and how we got here. But most importantly looking at what is emerging in the so-called New Economy.

In addition to exploring perspectives on money and the workings of the money system we ask the viewer to engage and examine their own assumptions and beliefs about money, attempting to unearth and make visible the implicit and explicit agreements we have made around money and how it has come to govern our lives in ways that create suffering and dissatisfaction. The central thesis is understanding that different monetary designs produce different results in human society and in the natural world. If that is really so, then what is possible?

We interview an all-star cast of deeply engaged global citizens (please visit the interviews page to learn more about the interviewees):

The film looks at new practices and innovations in the world of money, such as complementary currencies. It profiles courageous businesses leading the way in sustainable practices and the renewal of healthy communities. And it documents personal stories of transformation in relationship to money and its role in life.

There is a sea change occurring in the world today, the so-called “paradigm shift” of the globalized world. Economist Bernard Lietaer states that “money is the highest leverage point for change in our society.” Money & Life aspires to be a part of bringing a new consciousness to our understanding and the practices in the world of money through a film that will be part-investigative journalism, part-cinematic essay, serious ad light-hearted, intimate and inspiring. It will inform you and more importantly it will open your heart, expand your mind, and help us collectively realize our greatest capacity as human beings.