INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — The community-wide, nondenominational Social Justice Film Series continues its seventh year on Sunday, October 14, at 7 p.m. with “Inside Job,” an award-winning 2010 documentary about the ongoing financial crisis. The series is free and open to the public at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Vero Beach; no tickets or reservations are required. A comment and discussion period will follow the screening.
Narrated by Matt Damon, “Inside Job” provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore and China.
“Inside Job” won the 2011 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary, the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Non-Fiction Film, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Non-Fiction Film.
Reviewers said: “Compelling!” “Stunning!” “Wonderfully illuminating!” “The documentary is so smart and well-constructed that you’ll forget to be consumed by white-hot rage and unbearable sadness until after you leave the theater,” “The film wowed ’em at Cannes, and watching the film, it’s easy to guess why: there’s nothing like getting yourself worked up into a lather of righteous indignation over the scumbag behavior of America’s financial elites,” “A crime story like no other in history.”
Filmmaker Charles Ferguson asks: “Do we need the financial system? Yes, we do. Do we need banks? Yes, we do. But they don’t have to act like this. It worked for forty years and we didn’t have a financial crisis.”
The Fair Trade Corner will be open for one-half hour before and after the lecture.
The UU Fellowship, offering a liberal religion on the Treasure Coast, has easy parking and is handicapped-accessible. It is located at 1590 27th Avenue on the southeast corner of 27th Avenue and 16th Street.
For more information, call 772-778-5880.
