Free Money

Directed by: Lauren DeFilippo, Sam Soko Released: 2024 (educational) Year of Production: 2022 Running Time: 74 min Language: English, Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions Subjects: Economic Studies, African Studies                 When universal basic income (UBI) comes to the Kenyan village of Kogutu, lives are foreverchanged. GiveDirectly, one of the fastest growing nonprofits of the 21st century, is sending freemoney for twelve years as part of the world’s largest UBI experiment. Filmmakers LaurenDeFilippo and Sam Soko juxtapose the story of these young economists, bankrolled by SiliconValley and convinced that they have found an infallible algorithm to end world poverty, withportraits of local Kenyans whose lives are being dramatically impacted for better and for worse.            Official Selection at 2022 Toronto International Film Festival and 2022 IDFA        " The camera captures weaver birds building their spherical hanging nests as they’ve always done;