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 will investigate 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? Challenging her own disillusions, Maja adopts a more positive attitude; a futuristic vision of a better world, and embarks on a journey to find out. Discovering the potentials of an alternative economy she asks: How would we evolve if our society was motivated by something deeper than profit and…

Can we afford not to create a world without money?

Maja’s journey will take us to the USA and Sweden, in the footsteps of 93-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. Following key moments of his life, Maja travels from the beginning of last century into an optimistic vision of a “post-scarcity” future. She takes a playful and provocative look at the world through the eyes of Jacque and his futurist peers, some of whom are tirelessly working towards making this vision become a reality.

A thought-provoking film with eccentric and engaging characters and Sci-Fi style visuals.

Factsheet
Duration: 90’  documentary
Author/Director: Maja Borg
UK Producer: Sonja Henrici, SDI Productions Ltd.
Swedish Producer: Lisbet Gabrielsson Film AB
Director of Photography: Minttu Mäntynen
Original version: English
Format: DVC Pro HD
Completion: 2009

Country: Scotland, UK & Sweden

Developed with financial assistance of Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund & 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) 2008-09