Director: Christian Tod Producers: Arash T. Riahi, Karin C. Berger
Description:
What would you do if your income were taken care of? Just a few years ago, an unconditional basic income was considered a pipe dream. Today, this utopia is more imaginable than ever before—intense discussions are taking place in all political and scientific camps. Free Lunch Society provides background information about this idea and searches for explanations, possibilities and experiences regarding its implementation.
Biography: Christian Tod is an accomplished economist, currently working on his dissertation thesis about unconditional basic income. His debut film, Fatsy–The Last Cowboy of Austria received an honorable mention at Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz. Christian Tod‘s first feature length documentary Es muss was geben was the opening movie at Crossing Europe‘s, chosen for the official election at Filmfest München and got theatrically released nationwide. For his current and most ambitious film Free Lunch Society–Come Come Basic Income Christian Tod fell back upon his scientific expertise and made a movie about the subject of both his diploma and dissertation: the unconditional basic income. Arash T. Riahi is a writer, director and producer born in Iran. Arash studied film and the arts and founded the film production company Golden Girls Filmproduktion in 1997. His films The Souvenirs of Mr. X, Exile Family Movie, Mississsippi and For a moment, freedom have won more than fifty international awards. For a moment, freedom was the Austrian candidate for the Academy Awards in 2010.Karin C. Berger is a producer of Golden Girls Film. Since 1998, she has worked for companies including Coop 99, Witcraft Szenario, Lisa Film and Allegro Film in the production department as a production manager, unit manager and post-production supervisor for feature films. She studied film and TV production at the University for Music and Performance Art in Vienna. During her studies, she produced several successful short films.
