Erwin Wagenhofer's incredible odyssey tracking our money through the worldwide finance system.

More than ever before, it has become clear that the markets affect us all. Produced by Erwin Wagenhofer ("We Feed the World") LET'S MAKE MONEY follows the trail of our money through the worldwide finance system.
What do our retirement savings have to do with the property blow-up in Spain? We don't have to buy a home there in order to be involved. As soon as we open an account, we're part of the worldwide finance market-whether we want to be or not. We customers have no idea where our debtors live and what they do to pay our interest fees. Most of us aren't even interested, because we like to follow the call of the banks to "Let your money work.'' But money can't work. Only people, animals or machines can work.

The film starts at the Ahafo mine in Ghana, West Africa, where vast areas are being blasted open. Gold is extracted from the rock in a tedious process, then smelted and flown directly to Switzerland. The spoils are divided up proportionally: 3% for Africa, 97% for the West. The mine was opened with the assistance of the World Bank.

"I don't think the investor should be responsible for the ethics, the pollution or anything the company in which he has invested produces. That's not his job. His job is to invest and earn money for his clients." Mark Mobius, president of Templeton Emerging Markets

"In the end it's always the so-called man or woman on the street who's left paying the bills." Hermann Scheer, winner of the alternative Nobel Prize and a member of German Parliament.


Directed By Erwin Wagenhofer
Photography: Erwin Wagenhofer
Editor: Paul M. Sedlacek
Sound: Lisa Ganser

Produced by Helmut Grasser
An Allegro Film Production

Starring : Francis Kologo, John Christensen, Terry Le Sueur, Mark Mobius, John Perkins, K. Sujatha Raaju, Werner Rügemer, Hermann Scheer, Anton Schneider, Martin Walker

Category: Documentary

DVD Features
Includes scene selection, SDH captions for the deaf and hard-of-hearing and the film's trailer.

Subjects
African Studies
Agriculture
Anthropology
Asian Studies
Business Practices
Capitalism
Economics
Environment
Ethics
European Studies
Geography
Global Issues
Globalization
Government
Human Rights
India
International Trade
Labor and Work Issues
Migration and Refugees
Mining
Natural Resources
Neoliberalism
Poverty
Social Justice
Sociology

Awards and Festivals
Nominated for Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival - World Cinema Documentary Competition
German Documentary of the Year Film Prize
"WorldShift Ethic Prize" of the Intellektuellen-Vereinigung Club of Budapest
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Joris Ivens Competition
HotDocs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival
ZagrebDox International Festival of Documentary Films
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
One World Romania Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Film
Jeonju International Film Festival Cinemascape
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Moscow International Film Festival
Jerusalem International Film Festival
Rio International Film Festival
CinemAmbiente Environmental Film Festival, Turin
Bergen International Film Festival
Seville Eurodoc Competition
RiverRun International Film Festival
ReFrame Film Festival
United Nations Association Film Festival