The producers of the 2003 The Corporation documentary and the 2020 follow-up The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel have sued Twitter and the Canadian federal government for restricting political and social speech north of the border.
The legal action in the Ontario Superior Court follows Twitter rejecting “boosted” advertising posts featuring a trailer for The New Corporation, which is directed by Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott and critiques corporations like Big Tech. That trailer includes a short voice-over clip by U.S. politician and activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and fellow U.S. Representative Tim Ryan speaking in a House floor speech, with Twitter deeming those appearances ...
The legal action in the Ontario Superior Court follows Twitter rejecting “boosted” advertising posts featuring a trailer for The New Corporation, which is directed by Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott and critiques corporations like Big Tech. That trailer includes a short voice-over clip by U.S. politician and activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and fellow U.S. Representative Tim Ryan speaking in a House floor speech, with Twitter deeming those appearances ...
- 7/19/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The producers of the 2003 The Corporation documentary and the 2020 follow-up The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel have sued Twitter and the Canadian federal government for restricting political and social speech north of the border.
The legal action in the Ontario Superior Court follows Twitter rejecting “boosted” advertising posts featuring a trailer for The New Corporation, which is directed by Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott and critiques corporations like Big Tech. That trailer includes a short voice-over clip by U.S. politician and activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and fellow U.S. Representative Tim Ryan speaking in a House floor speech, with Twitter deeming those appearances ...
The legal action in the Ontario Superior Court follows Twitter rejecting “boosted” advertising posts featuring a trailer for The New Corporation, which is directed by Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott and critiques corporations like Big Tech. That trailer includes a short voice-over clip by U.S. politician and activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and fellow U.S. Representative Tim Ryan speaking in a House floor speech, with Twitter deeming those appearances ...
- 7/19/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sam Lara and Cathy Henkel’s assisted dying documentary Laura‘s Choice and Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe’s sports biopic Phil Liggett: The Voice of Cycling will form part of the Australian International Documentary Conference’s (Aidc) public access program.
The Australian films will be shown alongside international titles such as 76 Days, Kirsten Johnson’s Dick Johnson is Dead, David France’s Welcome to Chechnya, and Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott’s The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel in this year’s new non-fiction section. Johnson and France, keynote speakers at this year’s conference, will participate in conversation following the screening of their films.
Running from February 28 until March 11 at Melbourne’s Acmi the schedule also includes screenings of Days Of Cannibalism, Collective, The Painter And The Thief, MLK/FBI, Cunningham 3D, The Mystery of D.B. Cooper, Jia Zhangke’s Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns...
The Australian films will be shown alongside international titles such as 76 Days, Kirsten Johnson’s Dick Johnson is Dead, David France’s Welcome to Chechnya, and Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott’s The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel in this year’s new non-fiction section. Johnson and France, keynote speakers at this year’s conference, will participate in conversation following the screening of their films.
Running from February 28 until March 11 at Melbourne’s Acmi the schedule also includes screenings of Days Of Cannibalism, Collective, The Painter And The Thief, MLK/FBI, Cunningham 3D, The Mystery of D.B. Cooper, Jia Zhangke’s Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns...
- 2/3/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Does corporate influence have an effect on the spread of diseases like Covid-19? Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott, the filmmakers behind 2003’s “The Corporation,” are back with a sequel, “The New Corporation,” in which they draw the connection between how corporations have reacted to the environment and how they have contributed to the spread of disease.
“If we link corporate capitalism to the destruction of nature, which we can and do, then without question we can also link corporate capitalism to emerging diseases and there is ample evidence that this is the case,” Abbott told TheWrap’s Brian Welk during an interview for the remote Toronto Film Festival along with writer and co-director Joel Bakan.
Abbott provides an example about deforestation and how that puts human civilization in danger. “For example, if a forest is cut down and bats populated this forest, the bats have to go somewhere,” she said.
“If we link corporate capitalism to the destruction of nature, which we can and do, then without question we can also link corporate capitalism to emerging diseases and there is ample evidence that this is the case,” Abbott told TheWrap’s Brian Welk during an interview for the remote Toronto Film Festival along with writer and co-director Joel Bakan.
Abbott provides an example about deforestation and how that puts human civilization in danger. “For example, if a forest is cut down and bats populated this forest, the bats have to go somewhere,” she said.
- 10/4/2020
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Back in 2003 — a magical time when Amazon was basically still just a glorified book store, and Enron was the height of American malfeasance — filmmakers Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar made a sprawling but cogent documentary that addressed the insatiable chimeras that have come to dominate modern capitalism. Over the course of 145 minutes, “The Corporation” unpacked how business entities have come to assume a perverse degree of legal personhood (one that doesn’t square with the idea of public ownership), and ended by extrapolating that idea into a satirically damning thought exercise. If corporations were actually people, what kind of people would they be?
The conclusion that Abbott and Achbar reverse-engineered was convincing enough: Corporations are psychopaths. They don’t care about others, they’re incapable of feeling guilt, they often disregard the law out of their own insatiable self-interest, and they’re only getting worse. While the psychiatrist who Abbott...
The conclusion that Abbott and Achbar reverse-engineered was convincing enough: Corporations are psychopaths. They don’t care about others, they’re incapable of feeling guilt, they often disregard the law out of their own insatiable self-interest, and they’re only getting worse. While the psychiatrist who Abbott...
- 9/16/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Films include ’Ammonite’, ’Notturno’, ’New Order’ and ’Penguin Bloom’.
New work from Francis Lee, Werner Herzog, François Ozon, Gianfranco Rosi, Regina King and Mira Nair are among the line-up for the 45th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
As previously announced, Spike Lee’s David Byrne’s American Utopia will open this year’s edition, which runs from September 10-19.
The festival will close with Nair’s A Suitable Boy (pictured), a six-part TV drama that debuted on the BBC in the UK last Sunday (July 26). Netflix has online global rights, excluding North America and China.
Scroll down for full line-up...
New work from Francis Lee, Werner Herzog, François Ozon, Gianfranco Rosi, Regina King and Mira Nair are among the line-up for the 45th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
As previously announced, Spike Lee’s David Byrne’s American Utopia will open this year’s edition, which runs from September 10-19.
The festival will close with Nair’s A Suitable Boy (pictured), a six-part TV drama that debuted on the BBC in the UK last Sunday (July 26). Netflix has online global rights, excluding North America and China.
Scroll down for full line-up...
- 7/30/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
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