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In this newsletter we highlight Bank Job, about a group of activists who set up their own bank in a bid to fight poverty and the broken financial system; and Ahead of the Curve, a documentary about Franco Stevens who launched Curve, the bestselling lesbian magazine, to help serve the community of queer women.
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BANK JOB (PG) £9.99
2021 UK 87 MINS DIRECTORS:Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell
Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn are respectively an artist and filmmaker who conceived the idea of taking over an old bank building, printing their own bank notes and using the money they made to both fund local social projects and buy up and abolish £1.2m of local high interest debt. The film acts as an economic primer and a bumbling comedy caper as the pair show how modern monetary ideas have left the financially unsophisticated severely disadvantaged.
As the Screen Daily interview says, "The film’s amiably shambolic approach belies an astute and pointed message about the role and impact of debt in our economy." Read an interview with the directors here, and a Guardian article about the project here.
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2021 USA 98 MINS DIRECTORS:Jen Rainin and Rivkah Beth Medow
Frances 'Franco' Stevens used her own credit cards and the winnings of a lucky streak at the races to start Deneuve magazine in 1990 – later changed to Curve when actress Catherine Deneuve threatened legal action. The magazine highlighted lesbian issues and interviewed gay celebrities, and soon became one of the leading international lesbian lifestyle magazines. As publishing has changed, Curve magazine is now a non-profit project of the Curve Foundation. Stevens herself was left permanently disabled after an accident in 1997, and is now looked after by her partner Jen Rainin, who co-produced and co-directed the film.
"Ahead of the Curve is a must-see documentary, both for long-time readers of Curve and those discovering its existence for the first time – not just for its stranger-than-fiction history, but because of the honest and insightful message at its core" (The Upcoming). Watch an interview with Rainin and her directing partner Rivkah Beth Medow here.
The David Lean Cinema receives a proportion of the ticket price.
