Product Details

• Directors: Vuik Janic
• Producers: Joost van Loon, Alexandra Jansse, Peter Swanson
• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Emerald Focus Films
• DVD Release Date: May 12, 2008
• Run Time: 52 minutes
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• ASIN: B0019D16RI
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #219,637 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description
While many people recognize that surviving on a dollar a day is a struggle, very few understand the nature of poverty. In addition poor people are often not recognized for the creativity and resourcefulness they possess.

"A Dollar a Day" is a poignant six-part international series of 50 minutes programs that shows what it means to live under the poverty line. The series revolves around themes of "Access" - Access to Capital, Access to Basic Needs, Access to Markets, Access to Jobs, Access to Healthcare and Access to Good Governance.

These programs illustrate that while poor people may lack money, education, security or healthcare, they do not lack creative and courageous initiatives, knowledge and willpower. The world is full of stories of those desperately poor who transform their lives and living conditions. A Dollar a Day shows that poverty isn't simply a numbers game. It's about brave individual men and women enduring unimaginable obstacles while struggling to fulfill their most basic human rights and achieving their potentials.

The films of "A Dollar a Day" are an excellent resource for individuals and groups that want to learn more about the causes of poverty and what can be done about them. Four of the episodes include downloadable "discussion guides" and feature question and answer segments with experts from the Center for Global Development, a non-partisan "think-tank" working on development issues. Purchase these programs individually or buy the whole series and get a discount.

Perhaps the greatest value of this series is that you get to know some people who live on a dollar a day. They become real human beings and not just "the poor." In knowing them you discover that they are not so different from us.

"The Tunnel and Other Lies" illustrates that Access to Good Governance is key to escaping the poverty trap. In post-war Bosnia to be in the right does not mean getting your rights, that's a matter of long-windedness. While influential people succeed in defending their interests in the bureaucratic maze, the average citizen still pulls the shortest straw.

Amidst the rubble of this war-torn landscape, Omer Bjelonja's family is seeking way to reposes the home they sacrificed to this country's war effort. Their home served in the war as the entrance/exit of the legendary Sarajevo tunnel. Redjo Seferovic is also fighting an unjust and biased system that allowed him to be fired from his job as a security guard because of his race. The common element in their stories, and their mutual pillar of hope, is their courageous lawyer, Branka Inic, who is willing to challenge the corrupt system in her representation of its many victims, despite the monstrous roadblocks in their paths.

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