Money talks... Teens in Los Angeles discuss money: getting it, spending it and learning to live without it. An short film by award-winning filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield, ‘kids + money’ is a conversation with young people from diverse Los Angeles communities about the role of money in their lives. From rich to poor, Pacific Palisades to East L.A., kids address how they are shaped by a culture of consumerism.
Lauren Greenfield
Lauren Greenfield is an American artist, documentary photographer and filmmaker. She graduated from Harvard in 1987 and started her career as an intern for National Geographic. Her first feature-length documentary Thin (2006) was nominated for an Emmy, in 2008 she directed Kids + Money, which won multiple festival awards and screened at 2009 ZagrebDox, and in 2011 the film Beauty CULTure. Her photographic works and films generally deal with issues relating to the influence of popular culture on the way we live.
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Kids&Money
USA
2008, 32', color, video
Directed by:
Lauren Greenfield
Cinematography:
David Rush Morrison
Edited by:
Adam Parker
Music:
Andrew Feltenstein, John Nau, Colin Wolf
Producer:
Lauren Greenfield
Produced by:
Lauren Greenfield
Festivals & Awards:
Chicago International Television Awards - Golden Hugo; AFI International Shorts Competition - Audience Award; KIDS FIRST! FF - Best Documentary Short; Ann Arbor FF - Best Documentary; Michael Moore Award; Newport IFF - Shorts Audience Award
