Project Detail

Boom Bust Boom

Name: Boom Bust Boom
Director: Bill Jones, Terry Jones
Released: 2014
Duration: 72 mins

Synopsis

A documentary to explain economics to everyone and why economic crashes will keep happening, presented by Terry Jones, covering the history of financial crashes and featuring a combination of live action, animation, puppetry and song.
Contributors include high profile advocates such as John Cusack, journalists such as Paul Mason and John Cassidy plus leading experts including Andy Haldane, the Chief Economist of the Bank of England and Nobel Prize winners Daniel Kahneman, Robert J Shiller and Paul Krugman.

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Details

Year: 2014
Type of project: Features
Running time: 72 mins
Director: Bill Jones, Terry Jones
Producer: Bill Jones, Theo Kocken, Ben Timlett
Co-Producer: Volkert Struycken
Editor: Bill Jones
Screenwriter: Terry Jones, Theo Kocken
Director of Photography: Nick Rutter
Composer: André Jacquemin, Terry Jones
Principal cast: Dirk Bezemer, Zvi Bodie, Willem Buiter, John Cusack
Animation Producer: Justin Weyers
Illustrator: Maisie Noble

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

UK, Netherlands, USA coproduction

Bill and Ben Productions

20 Great Chapel Street
London
W1F 8FW

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