Secrets Of Money: The Documentary Movie
Documentary Film Project Exposing the State of Financial Literacy (Illiteracy) in America. Coming Soon!
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Posted by Kevin Houchin on December 24, 2008
We just added an FAQs Page to the site. We hope it helps answer many of the common questions we are getting about the documentary film project. Feel free to contact us with additional questions.
Posted by Kevin Houchin on December 16, 2008
The Fort Collins Coloradoan ran an article on our project today. Check it out HERE.
Coloradoan Newspaper Article
Posted by Braun Mincher on December 6, 2008
As we are editing some of our documentary interviews from this past week, here are several of the best quotes we got:
“I don’t think anyone is taking the time to talk to teens about money, except the marketers who are asking them to spend.”
– College Junior (Deep in Debt)
“Are we preparing kids for our past or their future?”
– Educator
“Couples fight about money more than any other issue: how to spend it, who’s spending it, who earns it, who’s spending too much, what belongs to whom, and for what reasons. Money seems to be the one thing that no one likes to talk about. Money is important to us; it’s like air, we need it. Most people develop their relationship with money from their experience growing up.”
– Psychotherapist Dr. Bill Cloke, Author of “Love-Making From The Inside Out”
“With college debt equal to a mortgage these days, you cannot just do what you love and hope that the money will follow.”
– Financial Coach
Posted by Braun Mincher on December 5, 2008
Below is some information and links about some other great documentary films that came before us that also look at money, credit and personal finance. What makes our project different is that we are taking it to the next step and focusing on the angle of personal accountability for financial literacy education.
Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2005)
Movie Trailer on YouTube:
30 Minute Version on YouTube:
In Debt we Trust: America Before the Bubble Bursts
Movie Trailer on YouTube:
Movie Trailer on YouTube:
Posted by Braun Mincher on
I am pleased to announce that the Colorado State University (CSU) Extension Office (Larimer County) has changed their position on on this matter and are now offering to provide us access to their “Financial Literacy Summit” on Monday (12/8). We received the email below on Wednesday to formalize this offer:
Hi Braun,
It was good to meet you yesterday at the Larimer County Extension office.
I’m hoping you still have the summit on your calendar for Monday, Dec. 8.
Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. Your participation will include the morning and afternoon session, as well as lunch.
The Estes Park room, adjacent to the session area, has been set aside for media interviews, which can take place during the lunch hour (noon-12:50) and is also available after wrap-up at 4:30, until about 6:00 p.m. if you need the extra time.
We will plan on having lunch available for your videographer as well.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any additional questions.
Thanks so much.
-Joanne
Joanne Littlefield, MMC
Interim Assistant Director-Community Relations
Front Range
Communications Coordinator
Colorado State University Extension
Joanne.Littlefield@colostate.edu
970-491-4640 (office)
970-980-5880 (cell)
www.ext.colostate.edu
Posted by Kevin Houchin on
LOOK FOR ‘FINANCIAL LITERACY – THE MOVIE’
One of the Eye’s very favorite local entrepreneur types, Braun Mincher, is launching a new project that can only be described as counterintuitive – or so it would seem.
He and partner Kevin Houchin, a Fort Collins lawyer and Business Report columnist, have enlisted Fort Collins-based filmmaker David Himot to bring the elements of Mincher’s book, “The Secrets of Money: A Guide for Everyone on Practical Financial Literacy,” to the screen.
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