kids + money,[1] a 2008 cinéma vérité documentary film, was directed by photographer/filmmaker Lauren Greenfield and produced by Evergreen Pictures.
[2] The 32 minute film includes interviews with Los Angeles teenagers on the subject of money and how it affects their lives.
HBO licensed North American broadcast rights to kids + money, and the film has been distributed to major broadcasters and cable networks internationally.
[3] The characters in the film are: 16-year-old Gabby, for whom shopping is a hobby and fashion a means of self-expression; 17-year-old Sean Michael, from a middle-class family who has to work to support his shopping habits; 17-year-old Emmanuel, who discusses his relationship to money and how he fits in at his school, Harvard-Westlake; Matthew, a child actor; and 17-year-old Zoie, who lives with her parents in a small one-bedroom apartment.
kids + money,[4] was selected as one of the top five nonfiction shorts in the world by Cinema Eye Honors 2009.