I dug this... the first thing I watched this morning. As a refresher... BBC Storyville's Why Poverty? is an initiative that was announced last fall that saw a set of 8 ground-breaking international documentaries that screened in November in 180 countries, each exploring why, in the 21st century, 1 billion people still live in poverty. One of the film entries was Poor Us: An Animated History, directed by Ben Lewis, the film's synopsis reads: The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis's film takes us through the changing world of poverty. You go to sleep,...
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