The Price We Pay – London premiere on 19th June 2015

John Christensen

Published:

20 May 2015

Reading time:

2 min

Category:

Democracy and institutions ↘ Financialisation ↘ Inequality and human rights ↘ Tax havens ↘

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Harold Crooks’ (The Corporation, Surviving Progress) searing documentary indictment of offshore finance gets it UK premiere at the Open City Documentary Festival in London on 19th June, and will also be screened the following week at TJN’s discussion workshop at City University. Both screenings will be accompanied by panel discussions involving participants in the film, including TJN’s John Christensen, James Henry and Nick Shaxson.

Watch The Price We Pay trailer.

Watch the interview with Harold Crooks broadcast recently by the Canadian Broadcasting Company.

Watch this excerpt from the film featuring producer Brigitte Alepin

Praise for The Price We Pay:

“Director Harold Crooks’ well-crafted documentary offers a concise, engrossing and occasionally infuriating overview of the ways multinationals avoid taxes by stashing profits in offshore havens.” Variety

“Rush out and catch Le Prix à Payer, a stunning, nail-it-to-the -wall Canadian documentary where bankers speak uninhibitedly about tax havens and top celebrity economists let it all hang out… A terrifying picture of an all-powerful market living way above the law.” Jean-Jacques Rue, Siné Mensuel

“Harold Crooks has revitalised the documentary treatment (of tax havens) by addressing the key political question: the loss of tax revenues are a direct strike at democracy itself . . . Using their influence, the ultra rich and multinationals have successfully morphed the notion of ‘no taxation without representation’ into ‘representation of our interests, without taxation.’ The oligarchs have taken over. Worse, according to John Christensen . . . fascism now roams freely across Europe.” Christian Chavagneux, Alternatives Economiques

The author

John Christensen

Trained as a forensic auditor and economist, John has worked in many countries around the world, including a period of working in offshore financial services with Touche Ross & Co. For 11 years he was economic adviser to the government of the British Channel Island of Jersey. In 2003 he became what the Guardian has described as “the unlikely figurehead of a worldwide campaign against tax avoidance.” His research on offshore finance has been widely published in books and academic journals, and John has taken part in many films, television documentaries and radio programmes. John can be contacted on +44 (0) 7979 868302.

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