Cashback (working title)
Speak-It Productions.
Producers/Directors Marc and Nick Francis.
In development
Tipping Point Film Fund is excited to be working with the makers of the highly acclaimed Black Gold on their next feature-documentary film Cashback.
Cashback will be a landmark cinematic feature-documentary thriller about illicit financial flows. It will tell the story of how money is drained out of developing countries by a network of bankers, accountants, and lawyers into secret, off-shore Western bank accounts, undermining the lives of millions of people. It is estimated that for every dollar of aid that goes in to developing countries ten dollars comes out under the table. How does this happen? Why is no-one paying attention? This landmark film will peel away the secrecy to reveal one of the 21st century’s biggest scandals. Cashback will act as urgent wake up call to the public on one hand, as well as being a powerful lobbying tool for organisations to use at the highest level.
Critically, the release of the film will be supported by a multimedia website and 3 – 5 year international outreach campaign. Development agency Christian Aid were early development funders of this project. It is hoped the film will start production in late 2010 and that funds raised through Tipping Point Film Fund can contribute a significant part of the overall production and campaigning budget.
For more information and how you can support this project please contact us.
Campaign – Tax Justice
Tax justice is a growing campaign as the issue of tax – evasion, avoidance – both domestically and internationally becomes more and more relevant to global politics. Developing countries have lost, and continue to lose , massive amounts of revenue from unpaid taxes.
Unpaid taxes that multinationals avoid paying through a combination of practises – some just plain unethical, others illegal. They are ‘assisted’ by banking and accountancy systems where secrecy and complexity combine to make it impossible for poor countries to track what is truly theirs. It amounts to billions. Watch this space for more information on the Tax Justice campaign that will be developed alongside the film.
Also find out more about Black Gold which continues to stir audiences up across the world.
Black Gold Movie Trailer
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