The Divide with Katharine Round
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🗓️ 27 May 2016
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Katharine Round is the director of the documentary film The Divide, which is based off of the book The Spirit Level. The Divide tells the story of 7 individuals striving for a better life in the modern day US and UK - where the top 0.1% owns as much wealth as the bottom 90%. We spoke with her about making the film, how inequality makes everyone less better off, and what we can do about it.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, oh, oha Duncan, and today we're speaking with Catherine Round. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to Upstream. I'm Dela Duncan and today we're speaking with Catherine Round, the director of The Divide, a film which is in select theaters now and on nationwide release on May 31st. |
| 0:33.4 | To learn more, please visit |
| 0:35.0 | W.W. dot The Divide Documentary.com |
| 0:39.0 | forward slash screenings. Welcome, Catherine. |
| 0:55.0 | Catherine. |
| 0:57.0 | Thank you very much for having me. |
| 0:58.0 | Catherine, let's just start with, can you describe the movie, The Divide, what it's about? |
| 1:03.2 | Sure. |
| 1:04.2 | I suppose in a nutshell, the Divide tells the story of the social outcomes of increasing |
| 1:11.6 | inequality in two of the biggest economies of the developed world, the US and the UK. |
| 1:17.0 | In a way I felt that there's a lot of rhetoric around this subject. |
| 1:21.0 | There's a lot of discussion about the theories, the data, but sometimes |
| 1:27.7 | we almost forget the meaning of what those theories and that data is. So the story is actually told through the eyes of seven people |
| 1:35.1 | at different points in the income scale from a zero hours care worker in Newcastle in the UK |
| 1:40.7 | to a Wall Street psychologist working in New York, a Gator community resident, a Walmart worker and a man in prison on the three strikes in New Outlaw in Texas. |
| 1:50.0 | And there's sort of a charismatic compelling |
| 1:52.6 | wonderful group of people and it's through their eyes |
| 1:54.8 | that we really explore the social consequences. |
| 1:57.1 | We explore outcomes in health, crime, |
| 2:00.4 | our behaviors, our attitudes, how we see our communities, and all of those things that we do see happening around us in more unequal societies. |
| 2:09.0 | And what was the connection between the film and the book, The Level by Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson. |
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