Cast (in order of appearance)
Souad Faress — Souad, Journalist, Therapist, Chef, Patron
Katharine Peachey — Director
Paul Fuller — Ian, Head of Evergain Private Equity
Penelope Mcghie — Penelope, Hedge fund manager
Sartaj Garewal — Sartaj, Hedge fund manager
Mark Rice-Oxley — Mark, Trader, the Oracle, Waiter
Kerry McKenzie — Rose the assistant
Paul Richards — Paul the assistant
Maija Timonen — Sarah the artist
Dan Mitchell — Associate in the lift
Benedict Seymour — FSA investigator
Office extras
Cameron Bain
Rachel Baker
Steve Boyle
Demetra Kotouza
Tim Savage
Janette Scott
Benedict Seymour
Crew
Written and Directed by Melanie Gilligan
Producer — Rehana Zaman
Camera Operator — Suzie Lavelle
Production Manager — Tom Dingle
Production sound and sound design — Tom Sedgwick
Additional screenplay and ideas — Benedict Seymour
Camera Assistant — Ben Jones
Production Assistant — Baptiste Bernard
Editors — Melanie Gilligan, Matthew Huston
​Graphics — Tim Booth
'Crisis in the Credit System' (Original music) — Petit Mal
Score — Benedict Seymour
Script and editing advice — David Panos
Thanks to:
113 Dalston Lane (Shakeeb Abu Hamdan, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lucy Clout, Rich Hall, Tom Hirst and Will Saunders), Paul Bennun, Anson Hartford at Banyak Films, Madeleine Bunting, Gieves and Hawkes, Kai Kan and John Slapp at Golders Hill Park, Hampstead Heath, City of London, Zohra Jafri, John Pearse, Natalie Sykes, Sixtus and Somethin' Else and James Mair at Viaduct.
Special thanks to:
Prof. Willem H. Buiter, CBE, FBA, Aditya Chakrabortty, Lona Collison, Beatrice Dillon, Michael Gilligan, Loren Goldner, Mala Gaonkar, Richard Greer, Deborah Hargreaves, Sam Hepworth, Zohra Jafri, Will Jones, Isabel Jones, Anja Kirschner, Emma Leslie, Meltdown, Markus Otema, David Panos, Robert Peston, Ann Pettifor, Tim Savage, Benedict Seymour and Kaveh Sheibani.
Filmed on location in London at 113 Dalston Lane, Hackney, Pergola and Hill Garden, Hampstead Heath and Somethin' Else offices.
New York stock exchange footage provided by the Open University.