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Title: "The Corporation" documentary film
START DATE: 4/28/2004
START TIME: 7:00 PM
Duration: 3 Hours
Location: downtown, central, hollywood, northeast
Location Details:
The Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood

(part of the Artivist Festival)
Event Topic:
Event Type: screening
Contact Name: Christine Daniels
Contact Email: cdaniels@thecorporation.com
Contact Phone: Vancouver, Canada 604 253 8333 x2
DESCRIPTION:
THE CORPORATION

Winner of the DOCUMENTARY AUDIENCE AWARD at the 2004 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL.

A Feature documentary by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan.

THE CORPORATION engages us in a darkly amusing account of the institution's

evolution as a legal "person" whose prime directive is to produce

ever-increasing profit for it's shareholders regardless of the cost to

anyone, or anything else. Imbuing it with this pathological nature is a

recent human achievement. 150 years ago a corporation was merely an

organized way of doing business. Today it is a global power that uses its

status as a "person" to claim rights under the constitution.

Self-interested, amoral, callous and deceitful, a corporation?s operational

principles make it anti-social. It breaches social and legal standards to

get its way even while it mimics the human qualities of empathy, caring and

altruism. It suffers no guilt. Diagnosis: the institutional embodiment of

laissez-faire capitalism fully meets the diagnostic criteria of a

psychopath.

Featuring a multitude of interviews with CEO's and top-level executives from

some of the worlds largest corporations, representing a wide range of

industries, including: oil (Shell), pharmaceuticals (Pfizer), computers

(IBM), tires (Goodyear), carpets (Interface), public relations (Burson

Marsteller), branding (Landor), and advertising (Initiative); as well as

critical thinkers: Noam Chomsky, Peter Drucker, Milton Friedman, Naomi

Klein, Mark Kingwell, Vandana Shiva, and muckraking filmmaker Michael Moore.

Add to the mix a corporate spy, an undercover marketer, academics, pundits,

historians and activists; deftly blend with newsreel footage, early TV

advertisements, B movies, and corporate propaganda films and you have the

fascinating, original portrait of an institution that is THE CORPORATION.

Is there a cure for this pathological pursuit of profit-at-any-cost? Or can

we only apply restraints? Will people regain control over the corporation?

With cautious optimism, we are invited to reconsider our relationship with

the dominant institution of our time.

For more info check out The Corporation's website:

www.TheCorporation.com

To view a list of interviewees, including Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, Naomi

Klein, Milton Friedman please click on the link below:

http://thecorporation.tv/productdemos.php#people

To view the trailer:

http://www.nowhereinafrica.com/zeitgeisttrailers/corporation.html

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Artivist Film Festival:



Film: The Corporation

Date: Wed April 28

Time: 7pm

Location: Egyptian Theater

6712 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood



The Corporation will be opening in theatres across the US this summer and we

are always looking for volunteers to help promote the film. Click here to

sign up to be a volunteer in your city:

http://www.hellocoolworld.com/thecorporation/volunteer.cfm

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