The game of life: a videopodcast to discuss inequality, social mobility and Colombia
What really determines the opportunities we have in life? How do where we are born, the relationships we build and the invisible barriers we face influence our trajectories?
From the film The game of life*TREES and its director, Andrés Ruiz, launch a new videopodcast that opens conversations about inequality, social mobility, early childhood, classism, education, privilege and territory in Colombia.
In each episode, Leopoldo Fergusson -Professor of Economics and co-director of TREES- and Andrés Ruiz -Director of Communications at Uniandes- talk with researchers, teachers and protagonists of different life experiences to explore how inequalities cross daily life and shape people's possibilities.
The podcast takes as its point of departure the real stories portrayed in the documentary film The game of life, a film built over 14 years following the lives of Colombian families in different parts of the country. From these stories, the conversations connect personal experiences, research and film to reflect on the multiple dimensions of inequality and the ways in which they affect the lives of millions of people.
The videopodcast of The game of life seeks to create a space to think about the country from different perspectives and open conversations that often remain outside the public debate.
*The film is based on the research of the Colombian Longitudinal Survey (ELCA) of the School of Economics at the Universidad de los Andes. The ELCA followed 10,000 families for more than a decade to better understand the dynamics of poverty and inequality in Colombia.
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