“Bonsai People,” directed by Holly Mosher and produced by Hummingbird Pictures, offers an insider’s view of the positive effects of micro-fiance loans on the lives of five rural women in Bangladesh.

 

Beyond his Nobel Peace Prize-winning microfinance model, Yunus’s enterprises — more than 40 companies — now share the Grameen name and provide goods and services to one out of every thousand people on the planet, said a spokesperson for the film.

 

“As I researched and looked into all they were doing,” Mosher recalled in a statement. “I was blown away. Here is a man who has taken the simplest of ideas and turned them into solving the world’s biggest problems that most people find insurmountable.”

 

Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus is well-known to India-West readers as one of only seven people ever to win the Congressional Gold Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Nobel Peace Prize. Founder of the Grameen Bank, Yunus has made it his life’s work to help the “poorest of the poor” to help themselves. 

 

“Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on,” Yunus said in his 2006 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

 

For information or tickets to the film, visit www.bonsaimovie.com.