Michael Albert

The Lottery of Birth is the first in a three-part documentary series entitled 'Creating Freedom' exploring the relationship between freedom, power and control in Western democracies. The series draws together interviews with some of the world's leading intellectuals, journalists and activists to offer an alternative perspective on today's society and the future we're creating. From birth onwards our minds are a battleground of competing forces: familial, educational, cultural, and professional.

It's a documentary about Social Control, examining the history, the philosophy and ultimately the pathology of elite power...Scott Noble does an admirable job of fitting ten hours of material into two. He gives the space to all the people he interviews... there's a metric ton of ideas here and he lets almost all of them unfold and breathe at their own pace... (topdocumentaryfulms.com)