‘The End of Poverty?’
Documentary links talking-head arguments to real people
by Kerry Lengel – Feb. 4, 2010 08:10 AM
The Arizona Republic
Read here; http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/movies/articles/2010/02/04/20100204poverty0205.html

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine from Canada was in town on business and stayed with me for the weekend. As we looked through a Los Angeles guidebook, he told me he wanted to make sure we stopped at a Target. Apparently there are no Targets in Canada, and he wanted to buy some clothes there before he left.
I rarely shop at Target (and don’t buy clothes when I do) and I was shocked at how low the prices were for clothes — in many cases, lower than …

Founder of Cinema Libre Studio and director of the documentary, “The End of Poverty?” was featured on several radio shows, podcasts, and websites in the last couple of weeks.

‘The End of Poverty?’: Documentary on a crisis

G. Allen Johnson
Thursday, December 3, 2009

Philippe Diaz wants you to know that his documentary “The End of Poverty?” is not a call for worldwide socialism – even though it advocates a redistribution of wealth that would make Rush Limbaugh scream.

But the fact is, much of the world is in poverty – mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, where Northern Hemisphere countries get much of their resources – and it’s a situation that, left unchecked, will surely lead to some type of global catastrophe, he …

OK, but on a serious note, it isn’t just the French filmmaker Philippe Diaz who is looking for your support. He projects that the livelihood of the world’s population rests in the palms of a select few.
“Today, we have to realize that 17,000 to 18,000 children die every day because of poverty,” relays a very passionate Diaz who says every word with the utmost enthusiasm and conviction. “They die because of us. It is important to realize that it isn’t a political issue or an ethical issue. It’s a mathematical …

Globalization Documentary Discusses Paradox of Poverty in Era of Unparalleled Wealth
By Kam Williams
Why have so many Third World countries remained impoverished and underdeveloped even after gaining their independence from the European nations which had conquered and colonized them? This is the basic question addressed by The End of Poverty, an incendiary expose’ directed by Philippe Diaz. In essence, this damning documentary is a history lesson about the ugly underbelly of Western Civilization from 1492 up to the present.
Read the rest of the review here: http://newsblaze.com/story/20091108162425kamw.nb/topstory.html

POPMATTERS – by Chris Barsanti
A Blunt Tool

Recently the poor seem to have lost their status as a subject of interest for the Western creative class. Once upon a time, the writings of Jacob Riis and Michael Harrington, WPA documentation, and even Preston Sturges’ films made the struggles of the poor (working or not) a constant and difficult-to-ignore pop-cultural theme. The hobo, a poignant representation of those millions made homeless by the Great Depression, became such a stock in trade during the 1930s and afterward, that he became a cliché.
Today, poverty …

The End of Poverty? is a hard-hitting documentary that dares to do what no other expose on the subject has done before

Interview with Philippe Diaz.

Investigative Journalist Lucy Komisar review The End of Poverty?