What is the Bank Job?
A community heist taking on an unjust financial system….
Our Bank Job is a feature film and art project pushing for a national debt writeoff as part of a reset for a fairer economic system.
Throughout 2018/19 we operated out of a former Bank on a High Street in Walthamstow, North East London as HSCB (Hoe Street Central Bank). The Guardian called us “The Rebel Bank” - as we first printed our own banknotes/artwork and sold £40,000 worth of them. We used 50% of the proceeds to fund local projects picking up the pieces of our broken financial system - local food bank Eat or Heat, homeless kitchen Pl84U-Al Suffa, youth project The Soul Project and Barn Croft Primary School.
We used the other £20,000 to buy up and abolish £1.2m of local high interest debt. Debt gets sold for a fraction of its face value when debtors fail to make repayments. Debts get sold on and on - but debtors get chased for the full amount.
READ A REPORT from the bank HERE.
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The BANK JOB BOOK
out now - published by Chelsea Green Publishing
Nominated for BIFA (British Independent Film Awards) Raindance Discovery Award.
BANK JOB documentary feature film
NOMINATED FOR GRIERSON AWARDS 2021 and bifa awards 2021.
WORLD PREMIERE AT HOT DOCS.
UK CINEMA RELEASE.
recently we’ve joined with Jubilee Debt Campaign and 80 organisations calling for an urgent freeze on debt payments and write off of certain debts. THERE IS NOW A CALL TO #RESETTHEDEBT - JOIN IN HERE
