The Lottery of Birth

Release Date: June 21, 2013

Running Time: 97 min

Director: Raoul Martinez, Joshua van Praag

Writer: Raoul Martinez

Starring: Michael Albert, Stanley Aronowitz, Tony Benn

Do you shape the world or does the world shape you? We do not choose to exist or the environment in which we grow up. Our starting point in life is one of passive reliance on forces over which we have no control. Drawing on leading thinkers from around the world, THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH shows that from birth onwards our minds are a battleground of competing forces — familial, educational, cultural, and professional — and that the outcome of this battle not only determines who we become, but the society that we create.