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
Language Version
FR Subtitles
Canadian Distributor
Mongrel Media
