Victoria Nece

Watch “Ten Trillion and Counting” online!

Thursday, 03. 26. 2009  –  Category: News

Our new documentary, FRONTLINE: Ten Trillion and Counting premiered Tuesday. You can watch the full show online, though:

I designed the graphs and animated all the photos and documents. This was a BIG PROJECT and I’m really happy with how it turned out. I’m also looking forward to getting a good night’s sleep again.

It’s been funny seeing the comments on the Frontline site. Several people have said we should have represented the debt as percentage of GDP. WE DID. There’s only one spot where we point out the actual number, and even that’s on the GDP graph. The numbers are just that big. Also interesting to me is how many things people said we should have included that were originally in the cut, but were dropped because it’s such a complex story to fit into an hour show.

FRONTLINE: “Ten Trillion and Counting” on PBS starting today!

Tuesday, 03. 24. 2009  –  Category: News

Our new film airs tonight! “Ten Trillion and Counting” is DocGroup’s first FRONTLINE documentary, and explores the history and issues surrounding the national debt and the challenge it poses to the nation’s future.

“This is a program everyone needs to watch if the search for solutions is ever going to get beyond the simplistic, accusatory catchphrases that sometimes seem to pass for economic-policy debate in Washington.”
— Neil Genzlinger, New York Times

Here’s the blurb from PBS’ website:
All of the federal government’s efforts to stem the tide in the financial meltdown that began with the subprime mortgage crisis have added hundreds of billions of dollars to our national debt. FRONTLINE reports on how this debt will constrain and challenge the new Obama administration, and on the growing chorus on both sides of the aisle that without fiscal reform, the United States government may face a debt crisis of its own which makes the current financial situation pale in comparison. Through interviews with leading experts and insiders in government finance, the film investigates the causes and potential outcomes of — and possible solutions to — America’s $10 trillion debt.

It’s over $11 trillion as of last week, actually, but it was too late to change the title. Oops.

Check your local listings. It’s on at 9 on Thirteen here in NYC, but PBS schedules vary by station. “Ten Trillion and Counting” will also be viewable online starting soon.