Zeitgeist Films has acquired the documentary Payback, which will have its world premiere in the world documentary competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in January. The film is scheduled for a late April release. Directed by Jennifer Baichwal (Manufactured Landscapes), the film is based on Margaret Atwood's bestselling book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, which looks at how debt influences relationships, societies, governing structures and the planet in different contexts around the world. Ravida Din of the National Film Board of Canada produced the project. Story: Sundance 2012: 15 Hot Movies Up for Grabs Zeitgeist has recently released Margarethe
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- 12/16/2011
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Zeitgeist Films has acquired 2012 Sundance world documentary competition title "Payback" by Jennifer Baichwal. The New York-based distributor is planning a late April 2012 release. The film will play New York's Film Forum beginning April 25. Based on Margaret Atwood’s best-selling book, "Payback" "explores how debt is a central organizing principle in our lives – influencing relationships, societies, governing structures and the very fate of this planet," according to a Sundance Film Festival description of the film, which will have its world premiere at the event in January. Baichwal has previously attended Sundance with her films "The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia" and "Manufactured Landscapes." In 2011 Zeitgeist released Margarethe Von Trotta's "Vision," Lynn Hershman Leeson's "Women Art Revolution," Jonathan Lee's "Paul Goodman...
- 12/16/2011
- Indiewire
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