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An anthology of short films that pairs directors with leading economic advisers to create stories that offer a better understanding of how the economy impacts all of our lives.

Meet Maxim, the young inventor of a truly jaw-dropping new technology with limitless applications that will eliminate the need for screens and monitors -- and all manner of electronic junk.

You'll be hard-pressed to find a more unusual circus, or father-daughter performing duo. The Moscow Cat Theater is just that: a traveling show of cats that perform amazing tricks for the owners who love and train them. Everybody in Russia may be used to seeing cats perform tricks, as the theater's manager explains in this funny, charming film, but felines walking tightropes, crossing the stage on giant balls and walking upside down is not a common sight in most countries. As a balalaika and accordion circus score plays in the background, Creative Director Vladimir and his daughter Maria combine their love of cats and stage to create a captivating act and illustrate the tricks of the trade - giving new meaning to the expression 'herding cats'.

What is the real value of a dollar? You think that a dollar bill is money and that banks are where your cash is stored and safeguarded. Well, you're wrong. Like, really wrong. The seventh film in the WE THE ECONOMY series.

Who would dare to pit one fatal disease against another... inside the body of an six-year-old patient? Dr. Carl June and his team of researchers and scientists at Penn Medicine and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have taken cliff-hanging risks in their patients' treatment. With profound results, their medical trials are shattering long-held expectations in the field of cancer research.

Shun's passion for flight isn't simply about airplanes; it's ultimately about the passion in all of us that gives us a reason to live. Shun's mystical vision of the world in the sky versus the monochromatic Japanese lifestyle reflects the fight against the mundane in all of us.

For those without access to a simple toilet, poop can be poison. Businessman-turned-sanitation superhero Jack Sim fights this oft-neglected crisis affecting 2.6 billion people.

The story of Billy Cohn and Bud Frazier, two visionary doctors who attempt to replace a dying man's heart with a rotor-driven device of their own design. If successful, this technology could prove life is possible without a heartbeat, and bring us one step closer to overcoming America's number one killer--heart disease.

13-year-old inventor Aidan has discovered that trees use a mathematical formula to gather sunlight in crowded forests. Now he wonders why we don't collect solar energy the same way.

In today's context of biological and ecological destruction caused by chemical farming, industrial agriculture and genetic engineering, the film explores the core philosophy of "Navdanya" movement ignited by Dr. Vandana Shiva who believes seed is a gift of life, heritage and continuity and saving seeds leads to conserving biodiversity, knowledge, culture and sustainability.

ROBOT is set in the Yale Social Robotics Lab where Brian Scassellati designs robots we enjoy being around and are helpful in our homes and schools. The film features NICO and KEEPON, robots who are becoming socially intelligent: they teach us lessons, learn to dance and even cheat while playing games with us.

Design students Anna and Terese took on a giant challenge as an exam project. Something no one had done before. If they could swing it, it would for sure be revolutionary. The bicycle is a tool to change the world. If we use bikes AND travel safe: Life will be better for all.An invisible bicycle helmet is a symbol for the impossible. If you can swing it everything is possible. Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin took on a very special exam project at their southern Sweden design school seven years ago. An airbag bicycle helmet. In Malmö, Sweden everybody use bikes, if other cities in world would have the same amount of bikes on the streets we would live in a much better world. A greener and healthier world. The bicycle is a tool for changen. Bike safety will make more people use bikes, Anna and Terese believes. They want to save the world. A good thing.November 2011 the Hövding bicycle helmet was launched in Sweden. Now Anna and Terese has 20 employees and works hard to make their dream come trough.

Dr Edie Widder is a biologist and a deep sea explorer. She's been fascinated with bioluminescent sea creatures since she her very first dives in the ocean. Using her underwater photography, we travel through the cabinet of curiosities that floats beneath the sea: creatures that sparkle, that fizz, that send of puffs of smoke. Edie explains how bioluminescent sea creatures possess special properties - their special light isn't just pretty, it has remarkable properties that can help us in the fight against pollution. Edie shows us some simple science: in her laboratory, she mixes a sample of sediment with a Vibrio fischeri - a common bioluminescent bacteria, easy to mix and use. She shows us how the light given off by the bacteria will dim in a polluted sample - if it dims quickly, the sample is very polluted, and if it dims slowly, the sample is relatively clean. From these samples, Edie creates "pollution maps" of waterways near cities. Edie takes us from the ocean world, to a world of science, and back to the world above. This is the story of how all things are connected, and how the smallest things in the ocean can have the most surprising properties.

MUSIC MAN tells the story of professor and inventor Ge Wang who teaches computer music at Stanford University where he began the innovative Stanford Laptop Orchestra. Wang believes everyone who loves music should be able to play it. To that end, Wang was the first to turn the IPhone into a musical instrument when he created the "Ocarina" phone app which became one of the most popular in the world when it was launched in 2009.

The Sky Is NOT The Limit profiles Peter Diamandis, his character and passion to dream big, through his work as founder and visionary behind the X Prize Foundation. From his recent successes (e.g. the 2011 Oil Clean Up X Prize) to his vision for the next big thing - revolutionizing global health care by partnering with communications companies to bring the knowledge of the medical world to people in developing and rural areas without easy access to doctors - the film envisions the world through Diamandis' inspired point of view, mixing dynamic visuals of recent X Prize challenges with artful animated sequences to visually express Diamandis' vision of a world of abundance.

Dutch artist Ap Verheggen is determined to inspire people to respond to climate change in a creative and innovative way. Is the idea of building a glacier in the desert so crazy after all?

Biologists spent ten years trying to map the structure of the elusive Mason Pfizer Monkey Virus, a problem that could unlock the cure for AIDS. The Contenders solved it in three weeks. Using the online puzzle game Fold It, scientists are enlisting video gamers to solve real- world problems. Fold It allows regular people from all over the world to team up and contribute to scientific breakthroughs by discovering the shape of proteins. The Contenders is one such team. How did these citizen scientists solve a problem that was once thought uncomputable?

For over 25,000 poverty-stricken children in China, a "free lunch" is their daily reality. Journalist Deng Fei set up the Free Lunch Campaign in 2011, raised USD 3.9 million from Chinese social media users in just one year and pioneered the power of micro-blogging in China's battle against inequality.

The Honor Code illustrates the ideas of philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah whobelieves honor is the key to lasting social change from within. With a storyteller's flairand a philosopher's rigor, Appiah shows how the concept of honor propelled moralrevolutions in the past and can do so in the future too.

After waiting 50 years, some exceedingly rare pigs help Dr Bob Elliott preform a medical miracle.

All Hail the Beat' celebrates a rhythm machine deemed obsolete in 1984 but still influential until to this day. The Roland TR-808 existed from 1980 to 1984. In that brief time span it was embraced by hip hop and helped inspire the creation of new dance music genres (electro boogie, techno) as we hear in testimony from innovators D-Nice, formerly of Boogie Down Productions, Arthur Baker, producer of the classic "Planet Rock" for Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force, and Juan Atkins, credited with creating the Detroit techno sound. Editor Waajeed, who is also a well known hip hop producer himself, has created a sonic tapestry of 808 beats that runs underneath the film, as if the device itself is giving commentary on its history.