Future For Sale – Synopsis

Is it time to acknowledge that the problems we face today are inextricably linked to our global economic system? In Future for Sale filmmaker Maja Borg investigates why a radical departure from our monetary-based economy might be the only way to save the environment and with it humankind.

But is such global change possible? Maja is set a challenge to find out how we would evolve if our society was motivated by something deeper than profit.

Can we afford not to create a world without money?

Maja’s journey will take us to the USA, UK and Sweden, in the footsteps of 94-year-old futurist, industrial engineer, architect and social designer Jacque Fresco, who has spent his entire life finding solutions for fundamental, positive change to our present economic system.

Factsheet

Duration: 90’  documentary
Author/Director: Maja Borg
UK Producer: Sonja Henrici, SDI Productions Ltd.
Swedish Producer: Lisbet Gabrielsson Film AB & Maja Borg Film Produktion
Director of Photography: Minttu Mäntynen
Original version: English
Format: DVC Pro HD
Completion: 2011

Country: Scotland/UK & Sweden

Developed with financial assistance of Creative Scotland National Lottery Award & The Swedish Film Institute.

About the Director: Maja Borg
Swedish-born director Maja Borg has an impressive filmography, not only graduating from film school with a 52′ feature documentary ‘Look at Lucia’ which won the Scottish Students on Screen factual award, but also being the youngest artist ever to exhibit in the Courtauld Institute, London, when she was selected for Culture Bound 7, East Wing Collection for her experimental film ‘To She in Me,’ and exhibited amongst Turner Prize artists. In 2007 she was commissioned with a 24′ documentary (Happy Birthday you are Dead’ tx: Nov 2007) by Channel 4′s New Talent Strand, a story which explores a fortune teller’s prediction that Maja would die on her 25th birthday. The film was delivered a month before her 13’ Bridging the Gap film ‘Ottica Zero,’ commissioned by Scottish Documentary Institute in association with Scottish Screen (nominated for best Scottish short doc, Edinburgh Film Festival 2007, & special mention Prix UIP, Edinburgh; Oberhausen, Rotterdam). Her work cuts across documentary, fiction and experimental and her films have won many awards and have been shown at festivals across the world. Watch some of them here.
(c) 2008-11