“Money & Life” Film Screening on Feb. 2

The public is invited to a free screening of the award-winning documentary “Money & Life” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, in Sewanee Union Theater. 

The film was produced by University of the South alumna Katie Teague, C’93. Among the experts interviewed in this film is Robin Gottfried, professor emeritus of economics at Sewanee. A discussion with Teague and Gottfried will follow the showing.

“Money & Life” (www.moneyandlifemovie.com) is a feature-length documentary that explores the ongoing economic crisis as a way to consider relationships to money at the personal, community and global levels. At the heart of the film is the question “Can we see the economic crisis not as a disaster, but as an opportunity?”

“Movies such as ‘Money & Life’ get the message out that there’s a need for change, and inspire the conversations that encourage action,” Teague said. “Rather than wait for governments to change the nature of debt, many people are creating local economies based on sharing or local currency.”

In the San Francisco Weekly, one reviewer wrote, “‘Money & Life’ does offer an engrossing history of the very concept of currency, and it raises some very salient points about our relationship with money and the treadmill we constantly run to acquire it.”

The screening and discussions are co-sponsored by the following University of the South programs: Babson Center for Global Commerce, Chapel Outreach Office, Community Engaged Learning, Cornerstone Project, the Economics Department, the Philosophy Club and the Philosophy Department; and the following community programs: Cumberland Center for Justice and Peace, the Cumberland Plateau Timebank and Otey Memorial Parish. This event is made possible by the support of the University Lectures Committee.