Finding the Money Film Screening Workshops
Get in touch with us to request a nearby screening of the paradigm-shifting documentary about the capabilities of modern public money systems, Finding the Money, followed by discussion breakouts with people in your area.
About the film
From the Finding The Money film website:
An intrepid group of economists is on a mission to flip our understanding of the national debt upside down.
FINDING THE MONEY follows economist Stephanie Kelton on a journey through Modern Money Theory or “MMT”. Kelton provocatively asserts the National Debt Clock that ticks ominously upwards in New York City is not actually a debt for us taxpayers at all, nor a burden for our grandchildren to pay back. Instead, Kelton describes the national debt as simply a historical record of the number of dollars created by the US federal government currently being held in pockets, as assets, by the rest of us.
MMT bursts into the media with journalists asking, “Have we been thinking about how the government spends money, all wrong?” But top economists from across the political spectrum condemn the theory as “voodoo economics”, “crazy” and “a crackpot theory”.
FINDING THE MONEY traces the conflict all the way back to the story we tell about money, injecting new hope and empowering countries around the world to tackle the biggest challenges of the 21st century: from climate change to inequality.
About our Finding The Money film screening workshops
These film screening workshops are open to the general public with the aim of promoting more productive, constructive, and healthy public conversations about federal spending and how it affects our everyday lives.
At the end of each workshop, participants leave with a more informed understanding of how the US money system works at a basic level. We plan to host workshops across the country with aim of challenging commonly-held misconceptions about taxes, federal debt, inflation, and the constraints on government spending.
Why hold discussions after the screening? We want to give everyday, working-class people the basic tools they need to understand how our economy works. By getting locals together to discuss the relationship between federal spending, local government, and the real deficits in their communities – such as affordability, access to good jobs, social services, and basic infrastructure – these workshops spark fascinating conversations and new ways of thinking. Participants leave feeling empowered to debunk the misleading economic narratives that harm us all and inspired to help build a more fair, resilient, and sustainable economy.
Request a Finding the Money film screening workshop in your area
We're planning a series of workshops across the country to empower working-class people with the basic knowledge needed to demand a more fair and sensible public money system.
In-Person: Tell us where you live and we'll do our best to bring a workshop to you.
Virtual: If we cannot reach your location, record your interest anyway so that you can stay informed about virtual events like film screening workshops.
Self-Organized: We are also considering a way to help you organize you own film screening workshops.
If you’d like to learn more about any of these options, please express your interest and we will follow up with you in the near future.