About the Filmmakers
Written and Directed by:
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Author and filmmaker Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of ISEC. She is a pioneer of the ‘new economy’ movement, and has been promoting an economics of personal, social and ecological well-being for more than thirty years. Trained in linguistics, she has given public lectures in seven languages, and has appeared on broadcast, print, and online media worldwide, including MSNBC, The London Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian. Her ground-breaking work in Ladakh, or ‘Little Tibet’, earned her the Right Livelihood Award, or ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ and her book, Ancient Futures, along with a film of the same title, has been translated into more than 40 languages.
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Steven Gorelick
Steven Gorelick is ISEC’s Chief Financial Officer and US Program Director. An adjunct professor at Sterling College, he is the author of Small is Beautiful, Big is Subsidized and co-author of Bringing the Food Economy Home. His writings have been published in The Ecologist and Resurgence magazines. He frequently teaches and speaks on local economics around the US. He also runs a small-scale organic farm with his wife and two children in Vermont.
John Page
John Page is ISEC’s Programs Director. Trained as a barrister, he was instrumental in establishing ISEC's partner organisations in Ladakh. In addition, he produced and directed the award-winning film Ancient Futures, as well as the short documentaries The Future of Progress and Local Futures. He is co-author of From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture. His series of photographs depicting the spread of the global monoculture have been used by NGOs around the world.
