Competition film

Banking On Change

Made by: Andrew Hinton

Synopsis

Two-thirds of India’s population of a billion people live in the nation’s 800,000 villages. Despite India’s economic growth, the disparities between wealth and poverty are huge. Many villagers migrate to the cities in search of work and end up begging on the streets. South Indian bank manager J S Parthiban set out to do something to help their economic circumstances. He encouraged beggars to open bank accounts in New Delhi, and pioneered micro-loans to villagers in his home state of Tamil Nadu.

More Info

This is a cut down version of a 15 minute film which we shot and edited in 10 days in November 2009 in Southern India.