Sixteen Decisions (2000)

Directed by

Gayle Ferraro

Country

United States

Runtime

1h

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows poor women in Bangladesh who receive small loans from the Grameen Bank. It shows how the loans and the bank's social principles affect their lives and communities.

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What happens

Sixteen Decisions is a documentary film directed and produced by Gayle Ferraro, exploring the impact of the Grameen Bank on impoverished women in Bangladesh. The bank provides micro loans of about $60 each to the poor, as well as promoting a social charter that gave the film its title. The film was Gayle Ferraro's first, begun in 1997 and completed in 2000. It has been shown at multiple film festivals, including the 2001 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival and 2002 Women With Vision Film Festival. It won the Bronze Award for Women's Issues at the Houston Worldfest, and was broadcast by PBS in 2003 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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