Poverty, Inc.
Winner of over 60 international film festival honors, the $100,000 Templeton Freedom Award, and the €5,000 Best Documentary Award from the FIFE Environmental Film Festival in Paris.
Poverty, Inc. is a 91-minute documentary inquiry into the nature of human flourishing and the effects of the multi-billion dollar poverty industrial complex erected to promote it. The film challenges current perceptions of global charity and promotes entrepreneurship as an effective alternative to alleviating world poverty.
From social entrepreneurship to foreign aid, the documentary POVERTY, INC. examines the rise of charity as a multi-billion dollar poverty industry.
"I see multiple colonial governors," says Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse of the international development establishment. "We are held captive by the donor community."
The West has made itself the protagonist of development, giving rise to a multibillion dollar poverty industry.
From TOMs Shoes to international adoptions, from solar panels to U.S. food aid, the film challenges each of us to ask the tough question: Could I be part of the problem?
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