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Directed by Peter Hutchison & Lucas Sabean

Written by: George Monbiot & Peter Hutchison

Produced by Lucas Sabean and Peter Hutchison

Featuring Music by Peter Gabriel

USA/UK I 2025 I Documentary I 75 minutes

Eat the Moon Films is proud to announce the California Premiere of the eye-opening and urgent documentary THE INVISIBLE DOCTRINE: THE SECRET HISTORY OF NEOLIBERALISM will arrived on VOD, digital platforms on June 3rd from Journeyman Pictures.

“One of the Best Documentaries of 2025” – Vogue “Top 10 Must Watch Documentaries of 2025” – Easterneye

The companion film to the Penguin Random House #1 best-selling book of the same name, THE INVISIBLE DOCTRINE: THE SECRET HISTORY OF NEOLIBERALISM is directed by Peter Hutchison(“Requiem for the American Dream”, “The Cure for Hate”) and Lucas Sabean (“Devil Put the Coal in the Ground”, “The Man Card”), narrated by investigative journalist and “professional troublemaker” George Monboit, and features the iconic music of Peter Gabriel. THE INVISIBLE DOCTRINE: THE SECRET HISTORY OF NEOLIBERALISM challenges us to imagine a different future, one where collective action and community-driven politics restore our sense of agency and belonging. Ultimately, the film invites us to rethink not just the system, but our place within it.

PRAISE FOR THE NOVEL THE INVISIBLE DOCTRINE: THE SECRET HISTORY OF NEOLIBERALISM

‘This book is fantastic’ – Mark Ruffalo

“This is the right moment for this gem of a book’”– Bill McKibben (author End of Nature & Oil & Honey) 

“The Invisible Doctrine is everything you need… the definitive short history of the neoliberal confidence trick” – Yanis Varoufakis (author of Adults in the Room & Techno Feudalism)

“Read it, get angry, demand better!’ – Gaia Vince (author of Nomad Century)

‘Powerfully sharp analysis of the most dangerous economic system on the planet” – Kate Raworth (author of Doughnut Economics)

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

Director/Producer

Peter is an award-winning filmmaker, bestselling author, educator and activist. 

His critically-acclaimed films include Requiem for the American Dream (featuring Noam Chomsky), The Cure For Hate: Bearing Witness to Auschwitz, Devil Put the Coal in the Ground, Healing From Hate: Battle for the Soul of a Nation, and the forthcoming The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (featuring George Monbiot).

His books include the Sunday Times #1 bestselling The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, with George Monbiot (Penguin Books), and the NYTimes bestselling Requiem for the American Dream: 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power, with Noam Chomsky (Seven Stories Press). 

His longstanding commitment to issues around male identity has resulted in the trio of films You Throw Like A Girl: the Blind Spot of Masculinity, Angry White Men, and The Man Card: 50 Years of Gender, Power, & the American Presidency. A sought-after commentator on issues of hate, racism and masculinity, he has appeared on NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, FOX and The Minority Report. A frequent speaker at the invitation of colleges & universities, he holds an M.S. in Counseling Psychology.

Director/Producer

Co-founder of Eat the Moon Films & Big Tent Productions, Lucas Sabean directed, produced & edited the forthcoming The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, the award-winning Devil Put the Coal in the Ground, The Man Card: 50 Years of Gender, Power, & the American Presidency, and Angry White Men: Masculinity in the Age of Trump, He produced & edited the SIMA award-winning Healing from Hate: Battle for the Soul of a Nation , as well as The Cure For Hate: Bearing Witness to Auschwitz. 

Choreographer Paul Taylor has called his experimental films “superb – like poems made visible.” He has an MFA from Boston University in Film Production and BA from Cornell University.