Joel In the Media
TIFF 2020: The New Corporation Review (84% score)
The relationship between people and corporations has continuously evolved over the years. Meanwhile, the sheer size and number of corporations have grown exponentially as well as their impact on society as a whole for better or worse.
TIFF 2020: The best, worst and weirdest moments of the Toronto International Film Festival
The New Corporation is cited under Best Programming as a highlight.
Another Dispatch from TIFF: Nomadland Has Big Oscar Energy
Review for The New Corporation is near the end of the page: The sequel ushers us through the years since to illustrate the ways in which a cadre of global megacorporations have operated a long con through which they bribe and lobby the government to deregulate and defund public programs, pay less money in taxes, then swoop in to market themselves as saviors in the communities they destroyed.
TIFF 2020: The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel
While many businesses have publicly declared their commitment to be socially and environmentally responsible, Abbott and Bakan’s latest film The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel shows such proclamations are just lip service. The primary goal of corporations is still to feed shareholder’s insatiable hunger for more profit. Throughout the documentary Abbott and Bakan show how every aspect of life is now monetized.
TIFF 2020 review: The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel
17 years after filmmakers Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott released The Corporation, a documentary examining the insidious ways in which large corporations have evolved and been able to grow exponentially with little oversight, Bakan and Abbott return with the appropriately-titled The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel.
‘The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel’ Review: A More Profound Documentary Than the First One
A chillingly relevant look at how corporations operate today ends up redefining the phrase “corporate takeover.”
“Can a Psychopathic Institution Be Redeemed, or Should It Be Eliminated?”
Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott on Their TIFF-Premiering Doc The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel
Return of ‘The Corporation’ and More Rear-view VIFF Picks
With an uncertain future, Canada’s capitalism-scorning documentarians look back through the wreckage for answers.
Joel Speaking at the World Social Marketing Conference April 2015
Osgoode Forum 2013 Keynote Speech – Good Corp, Bad Corp
Joel delivers the 2013 Osgoode Forum Keynote speech, entitled “Good Corp, Bad Corp: CRS and the Breaking of Society”.
Interview with David Berner
Joel talks about his new book, “Children Under Siege – How Big Business Targets Children”.
The Connection Between Big Pharma And Our Kids – Interview by Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D.
Pharmaceutical companies and other corporations are pursuing their own best interests to the detriment of the children to whom their products are aimed. This is the theme of Joel Bakan’s new book, “Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children.” Bakan is a professor of law at the University of British Columbia and the author of a previous best seller, “The Corporation.”