Inside Job
Oscar Winner Acceptance Speech
“Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that’s wrong.”
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Hello all. This month we decided to have a movie night instead of our normal happy hour.
We went ahead and secured a theater in North Palm Beach, FL for a screening on the award winning documentary INSIDE JOB.
If you have seen this film or not, feel free to join us TONIGHT June 9th at 6:30PM EDT at:
Location: Mos’ Art Theatre
Street: 700 Park Avenue
City/Town: Lake Park, FL 33403
Phone: (561) 337-6763
Movie starts at 7pm.
Seating is limited to 150, so please arrive early to purchase your tickets for only $6.00 each.
Refreshments for purchase include soda, beer & wine, cookies, as well as normal movie theatre snack
Hope to see you there!
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INSIDE JOB Official Trailer
SYNOPSIS
From Academy Award® nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (“No End In Sight”), comes INSIDE JOB, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, INSIDE JOB traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia. Narrated by Academy Award® winner Matt Damon, INSIDE JOB was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
This film attempts to provide a comprehensive portrayal of an extremely important and timely subject: the worst financial crisis since the Depression, which continues to haunt us via Europe’s debt problems and global financial instability. It was a completely avoidable crisis; indeed for 40 years after the reforms following the Great Depression, the United States did not have a single financial crisis. However, the progressive deregulation of the financial sector since the 1980s gave rise to an increasingly criminal industry, whose “innovations” have produced a succession of financial crises. Each crisis has been worse than the last; and yet, due to the industry’s increasing wealth and power, each crisis has seen few people go to prison. In the case of this crisis, nobody has gone to prison, despite fraud that caused trillions of dollars in losses. I hope that the film, in less than two hours, will enable everyone to understand the fundamental nature and causes of this problem. It is also my hope that, whatever political opinions individual viewers may have, that after seeing this film we can all agree on the importance of restoring honesty and stability to our financial system, and of holding accountable those to destroyed it.
ABOUT CHARLES FERGUSON (Director)
Charles Ferguson, the founder of Representational Pictures and the director of Inside Job, is a filmmaker, writer, and political scientist. A native of San Francisco, California, Ferguson obtained a B.A. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978 and a Ph.D. in political science from M.I.T. in 1989. Following his Ph.D., Ferguson was a postdoctoral researcher at M.I.T. for three years, focusing on interactions between high technology, globalization, and government policy, and frequently consulting to U.S. government agencies including the White House staff, the Defense Department, and the U.S. Trade Representative. Then from 1992 to 1994 Ferguson was an independent consultant to high technology companies including Apple, Xerox, Motorola, Intel, and Texas Instruments. In 1994 Ferguson founded Vermeer Technologies, a software company which developed FrontPage, the first end-user Web site development tool, which he sold to Microsoft in 1996. Subsequently he spent several years as a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a visiting scholar at M.I.T. and U.C., Berkeley.
In mid-2005, Ferguson formed Representational Pictures and began production of his first film, No End In Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq, which premiered at the Sundance Festival in 2007. No End In Sight won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance, the Best Documentary prizes of the New York and Los Angeles Film Critics circles, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Ferguson has authored several books including High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner’s Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars, and Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World (co-authored with Charles Morris).
TIMELINE:
How Deregulation and the Evolution of Wall Street Culture Led to the Financial Crisis
A chronological re-ordering of the events and arguments of INSIDE JOB… Scroll down to page 16 in press kit below.
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4closureFraud.org
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Inside Job – The Documentary that Cost $20,000,000,000,000 to Produce
Great movie and great turnout. I heard a few people talking about foreclosure issues, and a few others talking about predatory lending, and I’d never seen them. Maybe more of the get-together’s should be movies or lectures? Never thought about it but it may be good for people who aren’t comfortable showing up and talking about the issues directly? It’s a good way to get around what I call the “foreclosure cringe” — the initial discomfort some have even discussing the word. The banks have done so (read: sooooooo) much damage w/ their lifelong guilt trip. They’re beginning to wake up, but there’s still a lot of emotional baggage.
Inside Job is a MUST SEE. I purchased the movie from iTunes. HD version is on 19 dollars and change. If you are in this fight, this movie should be in your collection.
Wish I could attend this event with the group!
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