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DISRUPTION Film - Latin America
Grassroots Women Confront Inequality, Expand Inclusion
Latin America is a group of nations on the rise, yet income distribution in the region remains among the most unequal in the world. Our story takes place in South America where hundreds of millions live in dire circumstances and the poorest of the poor are women. It is the plight of women like these, multiplied by millions, which sets a ground of activist-economists on a journey to develop new ideas that confront what they call “the scandal of inequality” on their continent by expanding financial inclusion from the bottom up.
FILM SEGMENT: http://documentaryedge.org.nz/2014/wgtn/film/disruption
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The
DISRUPTION film explores a groundbreaking initiative that seeks to eradicate
poverty by empowering women on government assistance programs in Colombia, Peru
and Brazil to “save their way out of poverty.” The film interweaves women’s
testimonies to the transformative power of financial education with the story
of Fundación Capital, a group of dynamic activist-economists that believes when
you invest in women you change society. As women share how economic empowerment
led to their growth as local political figures, entrepreneurs, and
peer-educators, we follow the team at Fundación Capital while they strive to
bring their successful grassroots model to millions more women across the
region, collaborating with governments and big banks in order to do so. In a
time when many of the world’s problems seem intractable, the stories of the
characters in DISRUPTION show us how society can be transformed for the better
through community-led change.