The Economics of Happiness is a 2011 documentary film directed by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick, and John Page, and produced by Local Futures (formerly the International Society for Ecology and Culture).

The Economics of Happiness
Official film poster
Directed by	Steven Gorelick Helena Norberg-Hodge John Page
Produced by	Helena Norberg-Hodge
Narrated by	John Page
Edited by	Anna Fricke Army Armstrong Meredith Holch
Music by	Florian Fricke
Release date	11 January 2011 (2011-01-11) [1]
Running time	68 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English

Synopsis

The film features many voices from six continents calling for systemic economic change. The documentary describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. While government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power, people around the world are resisting those policies and working to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm: an economics of localization.

Recognition

The Economics of Happiness has won "Best in Show" at the Cinema Verde Film and Arts Festival, "Best Direction" from EKOFilm 2011 (Czech Republic), "Judges' Choice" and "Audience Choice" at the Auroville International Film Festival (India), an "Award of Merit" from the Accolade Film Festival, and several other awards.[2]

In 2012, the film was listed among the top ten films as chosen by Transition town initiatives.[3]

In 2015, it was awarded 1st place out of 100 "documentaries we can use to change the world" by Films for Action, an activism-oriented film screening and compilation site.[4]

References

External links

• Official website
• The Economics of Happiness at IMDb
• Helena Norberg-Hodge at Counter Currents
• Norberg-Hodge on the film

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