We’re pleased to announce that Polar Star Films’ has a new documentary in production. The international co-production directed by Cosima Dannoritzer (The Light Bulb Conspiracy & The E-Waste Tragedy) 

began filming last month in Europe under the working title of Time is Money. The team is currently shooting in the USA and will soon be heading to Japan.

Forget water, coal, petrol and rare earths – there is a new resource everyone wants: our time. This documentary investigates how time has come to equal money, why ‘time poverty’ is on the rise, and how the more we try to save time, the less we have. We will look at how businesses steal our time to exploit it for their profit and how the social networks have, in their own words, become ‘the new clockmakers’.

A Polar Star Films production, coproduced by YUZU Productions, France, in coproduction with ARTE France, RTVE and TVC, in collaboration with SRF, RTS, Servus TV, YLE and YES TV, developed through MEDIA Slate funding and with the support of MEDIA TV Programming.