Give Us the Money (2012)
59m
Running Time
December 1, 2012Release Date
Plot.
Can glitz and celebrity save the world? Thirty years ago, rock stars Bob Geldof and Bono set out on a journey to fight poverty in Africa. They tried to convince some of the wiliest and mightiest politicians on earth to change the world. Give us the Money tracks their journey through famines and palaces, and world-wide TV-audiences. But how successful have they really been? Did they manage to make the world a better place? Bosse Lindquist's film tracks the history of this idea. "A band of musicians set out to change the world" he says "and now the time has come to ask: What did they achieve, and is celebrity politics is the right way of combating world poverty?"'
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Give Us the Money is a 2012 documentary film made by the Swedish director Bosse Lindquist. The film is produced by Momento Film and is a part of the cross media project Why Poverty?
The film explores the Live Aid campaign that Midge Ure and Bob Geldof started 1985. With the film Lindquist wants to examine if charity from celebrities really can fight poverty.
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