''Payback'' is a 2012

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...

from

Jennifer Baichwal Jennifer Baichwal is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, writer and producer. Biography Baichwal was born in Montreal, Quebec and raised in Victoria, British Columbia.

based on Margaret Atwood's '' Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth'', which investigates the concept of debt in societies across the world (and not only on a monetary level). As a Canadian, Baichwal was quite familiar with Atwood's reputation: A number of prominent intellectuals provide commentary, including economist and writer Raj Patel, ecologist

William E. Rees William Rees, Royal Society of Canada, FRSC (born December 18, 1943), is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia and former director of the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) at UBC. Rees taught at the University o ...

, historian of religions

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, and former

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Louise Arbour Louise Bernice Arbour (born February 10, 1947) is a Canadian lawyer, prosecutor and jurist. Arbour was the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Court of Appeal for Ontario and a former ...

. The film was produced by Ravida Din for the

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. It premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. ''Payback'' is distributed by

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, which also distributed Baichwal's previous works '' Act of God'' and '' Manufactured Landscapes''. The film is being distributed in Canada by Mongrel Media, beginning March 2012.

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Q&A with Baichwal in Salt Lake Tribune
* Scott, A. O.
"Why the World’s Debt Is About More Than Money"
''New York Times'' review. " ies to show how debt extends far beyond the domain of money", per ''Times''. 2012 films Documentary films about economics 2012 documentary films Canadian documentary films National Film Board of Canada documentaries Films based on works by Margaret Atwood Works about debt Films directed by Jennifer Baichwal Massey Lectures Films based on non-fiction books 2010s Canadian films {{2010s-Canada-documentary-film-stub

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