"Money! Money! Money! -- Cannes Announces Film on Muhammad Yunus"

An Uplifting Story for a World in Financial Crisis! The multi-talented Phyllida Lloyd, director of Mamma Mia!, the highest grossing film ever made by a woman (and a team of women at that) has attached herself to the development of a feature fiction film based on the spread of microcredit around the world. She is also a highly regarded theatre director and her current production of Schiller's Mary Stuart on Broadway has been nominated for multiple Tony awards.

Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel peace Prize in 2006 for his pioneering work of loaning tiny amounts of money to the poorest women in Bangladesh and now the UN reports the system has spread to over 100 countries, lifting over 100 million out of poverty.

"Yunus has thrown down the gauntlet to all of us," Lloyd said." How to live our lives. If the poorest of the poor can transform their worlds, what excuse is there for the rest of us? This is an astonishing story of not taking 'no' for an answer."

See the following press coverage about the announcement here and here.