"The Wall Street Conspiracy," Documentary Screening

The documentary, The Wall Street Conspiracy, explores a pernicious form of fraud called illegal naked short selling that had an enormous impact on the 2008 collapse of the U.S. economy.  Produced by Greenwich Filmmaker, Kristina Leigh Copeland, the film will have its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on March 1, and will be shown at the on Friday, March 16.

Copeland founded the company Brown Saddle Films, to expand upon her desire to raise awareness about issues she feels are important in our world today.  Having spent decades fund raising on behalf of organizations to help spread their message, Copeland decided the most effective way to reach the global community was through the medium of film. She hopes her films’ subjects bring awareness to a global audience and stimulate the necessary changes required to provide a fair world now and for future generations.  The Wall Street Conspiracy is the latest production to come from Brown Saddle Films.

Following the screening, there will be a special Q & A with the film's producer and Dr. Kathryn Tanner, the Frederick Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School. Tanner’s most recent work, an analysis of current-day financial markets, aims to show that Christian faith and practice can speak to the global economic system, its values and malfunctions.  She says it’s time to muster the theological imagination to offer an urgent Christian critique of current financial excesses and propose an alternative “social architecture” that can nurture the human spirit beyond competitiveness and fear.

There will be a welcome reception at 5:45 and the film will begin at 6:30 p.m. At 8, there will be a special panel Q & A followed by dessert.