Real Estate 4 Ransom (2012 documentary)

Summary

Real Estate 4 Ransom: Why Does Land Cost the Earth? (2012, approximately 40 minutes) is a documentary produced by Prosper Australia and directed by Karl Fitzgerald and Gavin Emmanuel (credits also render the surname "Emanuele" — spelling variant flagged), shot over five years.[1] Its argument: the global financial crisis was substantially a land-speculation crisis rather than a bank-lending story alone, and shifting taxation off labor and enterprise onto land would aid entrepreneurs and home ownership. Michael Hudson — among the film's interviewees — promoted it on its March 2012 release.[2]

It is the Georgist movement's most widely circulated film, freely viewable via Prosper Australia and documentary platforms, and the wiki treats it as the video counterpart of the cycle narrative: useful for deployment (a 40-minute shareable statement of the case), never as evidence — every factual claim it dramatizes is cited on the wiki from the underlying literature (18-year land cycle; speculation outcome; 2008 financial crisis).

Provenance and Coverage

Martin Adams introduced the film to progress.org readers;[3] Prosper Australia hosts the film and production notes.[1] Per the wiki's source hierarchy the film and its coverage are level-6 advocacy sources — cited to represent the movement's own position and outreach history.

Bears On

• Narrative: Land Speculation Causes Boom and Bust — the film is its deployment vehicle
• Organization: Prosper Australia · People: Karl Fitzgerald · Michael Hudson
• Research: Georgism Video Explainers — the wider media inventory

See Also

• Renegade Economists Podcast — Fitzgerald's companion audio channel
• 2008 Financial Crisis

Sources

1. Prosper Australia, Real Estate 4 Ransom film page and production notes. prosper.org.au — used for the film's production, direction, length, and argument (A-claims; director-surname spelling variant noted).
2. Michael Hudson, "Film: Real Estate 4 Ransom," michael-hudson.com, March 2012. Post — used for the release-era promotion and Hudson's involvement (A-claim).
3. Martin Adams, "Real Estate 4 Ransom," progress.org (date unverified). Article — used for the film's introduction to the progress.org readership (A-claim, level-6).