Episode 3: Power of Enterprise
The third program in the series looks at how social entrepreneurs are working to break the cycle of poverty by empowering people to earn a living. Among the foremost of these is Muhammad Yunus, a.k.a., "the banker to the poor," whose Grameen Bank has provided 4.7 billion dollars in loans to 4.4 million families in Bangladesh and inspired similar credit operations in a hundred countries. "I saw the conventional banking standing on its head," says Yunus of his project. "So I turned it around so it can stand on its feet." This episode also travels to the jungle city of Pucallpa, Peru, where Albina Ruiz Rios has been forming micro-enterprises to clean up garbage that is sullying the environment, contaminating water and causing disease in poor neighborhoods. And it ventures into the violence-plagued slums of Rio de Janeiro, where Maria Teresa "Tete" Leal leads the Coopa-Roca sewing cooperative, a fair labor shop that creates clothes seen on the runways of the high-fashion world.
Film Credits
ALBINA RUIZ
- DIRECTOR/CINEMATOGRAPHER: Jon Shenk
- PRODUCER: Camille Servan-Schreiber
- SOUND: Doug Dunderdale
- EDITOR: Andrew Gersh
- SPECIAL THANKS: Nadine Freeman
MARIA TERESA LEAL
- PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Camille Servan-Schreiber
- CO-PRODUCER: Bonni Cohen
- CINEMATOGRAPHER: Banks Tarver
- SOUND: Yan Cardillo Saldanha and Leandro Lima Rodrigues
- EDITOR: Andrew Gersh
- ADDITIONAL EDITING: Josh Peterson
- ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Annelise Wunderlich
- ARCHIVE: TV Globo Brazil
- SPECIAL THANKS: Claire Fallender
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
- PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Charles C. Stuart
- CAMERA/VIDEOGRAPHER: Minhaz Moslem
- EDITOR: Sid Levin
- SOUND: Hanif
- PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS: Melissa Anthony, Phebe Rand, Joe Sousa
- SPECIAL THANKS: Muhammad Jahangir, Nurjahan Begum
Series Credits
HOST
Robert Redford
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
David Davis
SERIES PRODUCERS
Mike Malone
Bob Grove
MUSIC COMPOSED AND CONDUCTED BY
Christopher Hedge
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MUSICAL GUESTS
Paul Horn - Flutes
Titos Sompa - African Instruments
OPB National Production
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS
Kami Horton
Kelly Davis
AUDIO POST PRODUCTION
Digital One
BUSINESS AFFAIRS
Susan Smith
DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO
Victoria Morgan
GRAPHICS
Sandy Engel
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics
LEGAL SERVICES
Kristin Ingram
NATIONAL PROMOTION
Selena Lauterer
Nimmi Singh
Kim Helton
ONLINE EDITOR
Bruce Barrow
POST PRODUCTION
Howard Beckerman
PRODUCTION SERVICES
Milt Ritter
PRODUCTION AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
Cheri Arbini
Susan Boyd
SR. DIRECTOR, NATIONAL PRODUCTION
John Booth
SPECIAL THANKS
Skywalker Ranch
SPECIAL THANKS
The Flora Family Foundation
EXECUTIVE IN CHARGE OF PRODUCTION
Jack Galmiche