My Student Loan
- Director:
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- Mike Johnston
- Producer:
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- Mike Johnston
- Writer:
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- Mike Johnston
- Cinematographer:
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- Mike Johnston
- Brian Mitolo
- Jess Phillips
- Travis P
- Editor:
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- Mike Johnston
- Adrainno Ferreri
- Sound:
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- Mike Johnston
- Brian Mitolo
- Music:
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- Steve Lund
- Willie P. Bennett
- Fred Eaglesmith
- Distributor / Sales:
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- Mike Johnston
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- Country:Canada
- Year:2003
- Length:45 min
- Data rate:7.5 MB/min
- Description
- After graduating from Trent University, Mike Johnson found himself unemployed, crushed by his student loan and plagued by collection agencies. He decided to make a film about his student loan to pay it off. Begging and borrowing cameras, Johnston launched on a hilarious and horrifying ride through debt-ridden student life. Students working at the local pizzeria tally up their combined debt on the cash register a total of $90,000 in one stop. In fact, Trent students have run up a combined debt of $54 million in the last four years, at interest rates of 12 per cent and up! But the absurdity doesn't stop there. The university itself is wallowing deeper in debt as a strategy to get out of debt. With dogged determination and acidic deadpan irony, Johntson follows the money and takes politicians to task to expose the dangerous lunacy of the new economics of education. Funny, insightful, essential viewing.
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