The Corporation 10th Anniversary Fundraiser Screening
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It's The Corporation's TEN year anniversary!
Join Us For A Special Fundraiser Screening
10 years ago, The Corporation first hit theatres around the world and stunned audiences with its revelations of an out of control business model that mandates the pursuit of profit without regard for anything, or anyone else. The hard-hitting documentary film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan quickly became a Canadian box office success story and international hit, with the companion book by Bakan becoming a best-seller. Taking its status as a legal "person" to the logical conclusion, the film put the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" The diagnosis: Psychopath.
With over 26 international awards, the film demonstrated that audiences everywhere were responding to its analysis of the corporate institution, and harms that business as usual is wreaking on our planet. Part film and part movement, The Corporation still has the power to transform audiences and dazzle critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Today, especially in a post-2008 world, the film’s message has never been more relevant.
For this reason Mark Achbar and Hello Cool World have produced a new shorter cut of the film which they are re-launching as an experiment in community distribution, crowd-funding support to make the film accessible for educators and activists to use as a tool for dialogue. This special anniversary screening will feature this new cut of the film will be introduced by campaign director Katherine Dodds, and will be followed by a panel with The Corporation author and co-creator Joel Bakan in conversation with Indigenous activist and law student Caleb Behn, and Gen Why co-founders and filmmakers Tara Mahoney and Fiona Rayher.
SFU Woodwards
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 West Hastings
Vancouver, BC
Tickets - sliding scale (suggested donation $10-30). Or the sky's the limit! And no one turned away. Cash sales only at the door.
Info Fair 6pm with many of our supporters tabling
Screening 7pm introduced by Campaign Director Katherine Dodds
Panel discussion 9pm-9:45pm hosted by Joel Bakan with Caleb Behn, Fiona Rayher & Tara Mahoney (info on panelists below)
After Party hosted by Pull Focus Film School at 5-306 Abbott Street (Buzz Code: #8)
Vancouver Screening Event Sponsored by
DOC BC
Supported by:
SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
10TH ANNIVERSARY CAMPAIGN PARTNERS:
Hello Cool World • Big Picture Media Corporation • Cinema Politica • Open Cinema • Gen Why Media • Open Media • • dana.io • rabble.ca • People's Co-op Bookstore
PANEL DISCUSSION BIOS:
Joel Bakan: Professor of law, UBC; writer of The Corporation book and film and, most recently, Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Your Children
Joel Bakan is a professor of law at the University of British Columbia, and an internationally renowned legal scholar and commentator. A former Rhodes Scholar and law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada, Bakan has law degrees from Oxford, Dalhousie, and Harvard.
His critically acclaimed international hit, "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power" (Free Press, 2004), electrified readers around the world (it was published in over 20 languages), and became a bestseller in several countries. The book inspired a feature documentary film, The Corporation, written by Bakan and co-created with Mark Achbar, which won numerous awards, including best foreign documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, and was a critical and box office success. His most recet book is "Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Your Children."
Caleb Behn – Indigenous Activist and Law Student
Caleb Behn is Eh-Cho Dene and Dunne Za/Cree from the Treaty 8 Territory of Northeastern BC. He has recently graduated from the University of Victoria with a Juris Doctor degree and is among the first UVic Law students granted the Concentration in Environmental Law and Sustainability. Prior to law school, he was the Oil and Gas Officer for the West Moberly First Nations and a Lands Manager for the Saulteau First Nations. Currently he is the subject of a documentary – ‘Fractured Land’ - being produced by Gen Why Media.
Fiona Rayher – Artistic Director Gen Why Media, Co-Director, Co-Producer of Fractured Land
Fiona Rayher is the Artistic Director of Gen Why Media (www.genwhymedia.ca) - a production group working to innovate public engagement. She is currently directing and producing a feature documentary entitled Fractured Land. The film follows the story of Caleb Behn (Dene Za / Echo Dene), a First Nations law student, exposing the natural gas industry in northeast BC. Trailer here http://www.vimeo.com/57914714
Fiona is also on the boards of the Documentary Organization of Canada and the Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival. She frequently speaks at schools and events about engagement through media production and documentary film. Specialties: film production / community development / event planning / public art
Tara Mahoney- Co-founder Gen Why Media & Filmmaker
Tara is a cultural commentator in generational issues, appearing in the media and as a keynote speaker representing the Generation Y perspective. She has been a keynote speaker at TEDxVancouver, Your Kontinent: Media Arts Festival, Haskayne School of Business, Business Day Conference.
Environmental activism and social justice issues have always been important to Tara – illustrated most clearly in her first documentary film, ForGive. Tara wrote, directed and produced ForGive, a film that follows National Chief Phil Fontaine to the Vatican to seek an apology from Pope Benedict XVI for the culture damaged caused by Indian Residential Schools. She has a MA in media production from Ryerson University and is currently a PhD student in Communications at Simon Fraser University, while continuing an active role at Gen Why Media.
Katherine Dodds – founder of Hello Cool World, Director of Campaigns for the Corporation
Katherine Dodds, AKA “Kat”, got her advertising chops with the anti-consumer magazine Adbusters, and carried the ironic title of “Director of Corporate Communications” for The Corporation film. She is currently the mastermind behind the 10th Anniversary ‘Off The Couch’ campaign, one of the inaugural projects on the new crowd funding platform www.dana.io.
With artist and photographer Nancy Bleck and Squamish Nation Hereditary Chief Bill Williams, Katherine recently authored the book ‘Picturing Transformation Nexw’áyantsut’ (2013, Figure 1 Publishing). Through all the projects Katherine takes on, she is building a grassroots network so that Hello Cool World can be of service to media makers, distributors, issue stakeholders and audiences. Katherine holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Victoria (Canada) and an MA in Fine Art and Cultural Studies with distinction from the University of Leeds, UK.
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Organizer Hello Cool World
Organizer of The Corporation 10th Anniversary Fundraiser Screening
