This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing “wealth gap” in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune and graduate of NYU Film School. His previous credits include the Emmy-nominated 2003 HBO documentary “Born Rich.” Here he sets out to explore the mindset of a tiny percentage of Americans – the one percent – who control nearly half the wealth of the entire United States. What makes this documentary so special is that the filmmaker, disturbed by such high levels of inequality, attempts to engage his own family, as well as other billionaires, in dialogue around this issue. The result is an intimate, heartfelt, humorous and, at times, stupefying expose of the self-deception all humans are prey to and perhaps none more so than the super-rich, barricaded within their own isolation. The film, aired on HBO in 2006, includes interviews with Nicole Buffett, Bill Gates Sr., Adnan Khashoggi, Milton Friedman, Robert Reich, Ralph Nader and other luminaries.
Audience discussion led by Joshin Sensei O’Hara will follow.
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