Region: BC
The Corporation
For more than a hundred years, US corporations — including giants like Coca-Cola, Microsoft and Nike — have been treated as “persons” under the law.
But if a corporation is a person, what kind of person is it?
In answering this question, this provocative film takes a mischievous approach. Because the pursuit of profit is behind every corporate decision, corporations fit a classic psychiatric profile: They are psychopaths.
This unexpected conclusion prompts many moral, political and social questions. Full of interviews with corporate insiders and critics, this often humorous documentary is packed with fascinating insights.
Winner of 26 international awards, including 10 Audience Choice awards at film festivals around the world.
Directors
Mark Achbar
Achbar is an award-winning filmmaker and producer who directed and produced The Corporation, which won several awards, including the Special Jury Award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and the Genie Award for Best Documentary. He has directed many shorts, and the feature documentary Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media. He has executive produced numerous documentaries, including Waterlife, Surviving Progress, Marmato, My Mother Was Here, and Fairy Creek.
Jennifer Abbott
Abbott is a Genie Award-winning documentary filmmaker, writer, editor, and producer. She directed A Cow at My Table, The Film That Buys the Cinema, Us and Them, and The Magnitude of All Things, and co-directed The Corporation and its follow-up The New Corporation. She edited Let It Ride, Under the Poison Tree, and I Am, and co-wrote and directed the documentary Bif Naked: One of a Kind.
Writers
Joel Bakan, Jennifer Abbott, Harold Croosk
Producers
Mark Achbar, Bart Simpson
Genre
Documentary
Interests
Arts and Culture, Female Filmmaker, Social Justice & Politics
Original Language
English
Own Voice
2022 - Celebrating Indigenous Voices
2021 - Light at the End of the Tunnel
2018 - Women: Take on the World
The Road Forward
The film tells the tale of six generations of Indigenous activism, weaving in musical sequences that seamlessly connect past and present with blues, rock and traditional beats. A rousing tribute to those who tirelessly fight for the rights of First Nations people and a visceral and inspiring call to action!
“The Road Forward represents the bold and optimistic position where [Indigenous documentary] now stands.” – Kate Taylor, The Globe and Mail
Director
Marie Clements (Métis/Dene)
Clements is an award-winning artist and filmmaker whose work has screened at Cannes, TIFF, VIFF, American Indian Film Festival and imagineNATIVE. She has directed shorts, music videos, and the feature documentary The Road Forward as well as the narrative features Red Snow, Lay Down Your Heart. Her film Bones of Crows won 35 awards internationally and was nominated for 25 others and was also released as a full length mini-series by the CBC.
Writer
Marie Clements (Métis/Dene)
Cast
Chief Leonard George (Tsleil- Waututh), Ron Harris (Stō:lo/St’át’imc/Nlaka’pamux), Wayne Lavallee (Métis), Evan Adams (Tla’amin)
Producer
Shirley Vercruysse
Genre
Documentary
Interests
BIPOC Stories, Female Filmmaker, History, Indigenous Filmmaker, Social Justice & Politics
Original Language
English
Totem: The Return of the G’psgolox Pole
In 1929, the Haisla people of British Columbia returned from a fishing trip to find their tribe’s nine-metre mortuary pole — otherwise known as the G’psgolox — missing, severed at the base. The pole’s fate was a mystery for over 60 years until it surfaced in a Stockholm museum, where members of the Haisla Nation journeyed to in order to get it back in 1991.
Mixing interviews, location photography and awesome footage of Haisla carvers, this unique documentary takes an incredible story and weaves in important commentary on the issue of cultural appropriation and art history.
Director
Gil Cardinal (Métis)
Cardinal was a groundbreaking filmmaker whose body of work includes NFB documentaries such as Foster Child, The Spirit Within and Totem: the Return of the G’psgolox Pole, for which he won the Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award at imagineNATIVE. He also directed episodes of television series such as North of 60, Big Bear, Chiefs, and Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis. Cardinal received the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Film and Television.
Writer
Gil Cardinal (Métis)
Producers
Jerry Krepakevich, Graydon McCrea, Bonnie Thompson
Genre
Documentary
Interests
BIPOC Stories, Environment, Global Experiences, History, Indigenous Filmmaker, Social Justice & Politics
Original Language
English
Portraits from a Fire
Tyler (Lulua), a young aspiring filmmaker, spends his days comedically documenting life on the Tl’etinqox Reserve where he lives, but everything changes when he meets the mysterious Aaron (Koostachin) who encourages him to tell a new kind of story. What starts out as a personal project about his family soon leads to the reveal of a shocking secret that threatens to unravel his life.
A coming of age story that is often funny and surreal, this debut feature from director Trevor Mack is also a poignant look at the importance of family and being in touch with one’s ancestry.
“Portraits from a Fire boasts some superb production values… wrapped around a simple, heartfelt tale that is clearly close to the heart of its 29-year-old director.” – Chris Knight, The National Post
Director
Trevor Mack (Tsilhqot'in)
Trevor Mack is an award-winning Tsilhqot'in filmmaker. His first short film, The Blanketing, screened at festivals across North America, including the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. He has also directed numerous shorts, including Clouds of Autumn, which won the award for best Canadian short at imagineNATIVE. Portraits from a Fire is his first feature. He is currently working on his next film, Journey of a Drop.
Writers
Trevor Mack (Tsilhqot'in), Derek Vermillion (Cree), Manny Mahal
Cast
Nathaniel Arcand (Plains Cree), William Magnus Lulua (Tsilhqot'in/Secwépemc/Cree), Asivak Koostachin (Cree/Inuk), Pauline Bob-King (Tsilhqot'in)
Producers
Trevor Mack (Tsilhqot'in), Kate Kroll, Rylan Friday (Saulteaux Ojibway/Plains Cree)
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Interests
BIPOC Stories, Family Relationships, Indigenous Filmmaker
Original Languages
English, Other Language