Indiewire's Editor-in-Chief, Dana Harris, sat down for an interview with filmmaker Jacob Kornbluth, and former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, to discuss their eye-opening film "Inequality for All," following a screening at the Ida Documentary Screening Series in Los Angeles. A Special Jury Prize winner at Sundance, the film is currently playing in select theaters. "Inequality for All" looks to raise awareness on the pressing issue of the country's widening economic gap by exploring pivotal political events such as the occupy movement and other financial crises. Watch as award-wining filmmaker, Kornbluth ("Haiku Tunnel," "The Best Thief in the World"), joins activist Reich to consider what they want their audience to come away with from this film. "I'd like for this film to give people a sense of hope," says Reich. Watch the video below. For more on the Ida Documentary Screening series go here.
- 10/4/2013
- by Ohad Amram
- Indiewire
RADiUS-twc snagged its fourth film at the Sundance Film Festival today, picking up all English speaking rights for economic documentary "Inequality For All." The company is planning a summer 2013 release for the film, which had its premiere on Saturday. Directed by Jacob Kornbluth, whose previous scripted features "Haiku Tunnel" and "The Best Thief in the World" both premiered at Sundance, "Inequality For All" explores economic imbalance and the widening income gap in America, with former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich serving as a guide to the issue's causes and consequences. The film was produced by Jen Chaiken and Sebastian Dungan of 72 Productions. Read More: Meet the 2013 Sundance Filmmakers #36 : Jacob Kornbluth On Why 'Inequality for All' is 'An Inconvenient Truth' for the Economy "Together, Robert and Jacob have given the inequality of the U.S. economy the knockout punch it deserves by...
- 1/23/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
In his inaugural address on Monday, President Barack Obama spoke eloquently about America's need to level its economic playing field. "For we, the people," he said, "understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it. We believe that America's prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class."
The cadence is pure Obama, but the substance could have been cribbed from any number of books, articles and lectures produced over the past four decades by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. The documentary "Inequality for All," premiering at the Sundance Film Festival and picked up just this morning by The Weinstein Company's video-on-demand division, Radius, is director Jacob Kornbluth's attempt to bring Reich's gospel of a broader, fairer prosperity to an audience big enough to do something about it.
The film gives Reich, who served...
The cadence is pure Obama, but the substance could have been cribbed from any number of books, articles and lectures produced over the past four decades by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. The documentary "Inequality for All," premiering at the Sundance Film Festival and picked up just this morning by The Weinstein Company's video-on-demand division, Radius, is director Jacob Kornbluth's attempt to bring Reich's gospel of a broader, fairer prosperity to an audience big enough to do something about it.
The film gives Reich, who served...
- 1/23/2013
- by Michael Hogan
- Huffington Post
RADiUS-twc has made its fourth major purchase at the Sundance Film Festival today following Twenty Feet From Stardom , Concussion and Lovelace . Here's the press release on the documentary Inequality for All : RADiUS - TWC proudly announced today that it has acquired all English speaking rights to Inequality For All, one of the most revered films at the Festival that introduces former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich as an unexpectedly humorous guide in exploring the causes and consequences of the widening income gap in America and asks what if means to the future of our economy and our nation. Directed by the award-winning Jacob Kornbluth (Haiku Tunnel, The Best Thief In The World both of which premiered at Sundance), Inequality For All was produced by Jen Chaiken and...
- 1/23/2013
- Comingsoon.net
In the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown and the Occupy Wall St. and Tea Party movements, the documentary Inequality For All is a timely look at income disparity, public policy and contemporary politics. The film from director Jacob Kornbluth (2004 Sundance title The Best Thief in the World) stars former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, whose lectures in his spring 2012 Uc Berkeley class "Wealth and Poverty" form the backbone of the film. The movie is filled with slick animated charts and graphs, which help break down complicated economic data and also make Inequality For All somewhat reminiscent of
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- 1/20/2013
- by Daniel Miller
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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