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The Price We Pay is a 2014 Canadian documentary movie directed by Harold Crooks. It was inspired from the book La crise fiscale qui vient written by Brigitte Alepin, a Canadian tax professional.

Experts and individuals
And additionally Dublin barmen and barwomen, leaders of the National United Nurses at a Robin Hood Tax Rally in New York City, and demonstrators from everywhere in the world…
 * Brigitte Alepin (Harvard educated Canadian tax professional)
 * Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics, professional on revenue and wealth inequality)
 * Angus Cameron (Political Economist, University of Leicester)
 * Nicolas Colin (Inspector of finance with the French Inspection Générale des Finances)
 * Alain Deneault (Researcher – Réseau pour la Justice, Professor of sociology at UQAM)
 * Daniel Lebègue (President of Transparency International – France, former technical adviser to the French Prime Minister’s Cabinet answerable for Economy and Financial Affairs, former Banque Nationale de Paris CEO)
 * Saskia Sassen (Sociologist, professor, Columbia University)
 * Stuart Fraser (Former deputy coverage chairman on the City of London Corporation)
 * James R. Henry (Lawyer, former chief economist at McKinsey & Co)
 * Ronen Palan (Political Science professor on the City of London University)
 * Richard Rahn (Former Director, Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, Former Chief Economist of the D.R. Chamber of Commerce, Senior Fellow on the libertarian Cato Institute)
 * Timothy Ridley (Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, Maples and Calder, GlobeOp Financial Services)
 * Nicholas Shaxson (Journalist, writer of Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil and Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World)
 * Olivier Sivieude, Payart de Fitz-James, Christophe Soucat (Vérifications nationales et internationales des Finances Publiques, Paris)
 * Father William Taylor (Anglo-Catholic vicar, elected to the Corporation of the City of London borough council)
 * John Christensen (Director of the Tax Justice Network, former financial advisor States of Jersey)
 * Krishen Mehta (Senior Global Justice Fellow, former associate PricewaterhouseCoopers)
 * Pascal Saint-Amans (Head of tax coverage, OECD, Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development)
 * David Marchant (Investigative journalist and editor of Offshore Alert)
 * Jack Blum (Attorney, chair of Tax Justice Network USA)
 * Jaron Lanier (Computer scientist, digital actuality pioneer, writer of You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto and Who Owns the Future?)
 * William Barclay (Chicago Political Economy Group, former Senior Vice-President of Chicago Stock Exchange)
 * Wallace Turbeville (Senior Fellow Demos NYC, former Vice-Président Goldman Sachs)
 * Lord Adair Turner (Fellow, Institute of New Economic Thinking, former Chief Financial Regulator of the UK)
 * Laura Mcauliffe (Graphic artist, Vancouver)
 * Sam Holloway (Chicago firefighter)

Reception
Serge Kaganski from Les Inrockuptibles wrote : “The Price We Pay places a deep finger within the tax fraud and avoidance plague, perhaps the guts of political and economical issues”. According to Kaganski The Price we pay has the benefit of underlining the position of London “as the guts of the world monetary muck”. He additionally feels that the film succeeded in selecting pertinent members that embody two worlds : “those that defend a welfare state – guarantor of social justice and societies psychological well being – (…) towards the others who defend a world the place canine eat canine and the place no one look after the others”.

Sophie Fay from Le Nouvel Observateur considers the documentary “as highly effective as Inside Job“. She feels that the two films are each “dense and activist” of their approach of “denouncing Wall Street monetary drifts”.

The American critic from Variety, Joe Leyden describes The Price We Pay as an “exact, concise typically bland and polished however very credible and powerful influence film”. Indeed Joe Leyden reproaches the film for being typically a too “polished product” – notably on account of “an array of speaking heads” – but in addition argues that The Price we pay can “attain a large viewers whether it is attacked by the best individuals in order to gasoline extra actions like Occupy Wall Street, and may even pose an existential menace to capitalism itself.”

Steven Frank from Bloomberg wrote “Praise-worthy for making sense of the arcane topic of corporate taxes”.

“Portrays how a lot hassle we’re in if we don’t begin to wrap our heads round this complicated problem” stated David Barry fromThe National Post.

Jason Gorber from Twitchfilm wrote “One of the strongest docs of the year, on that is each well timed and extremely provocative”.

Besides the film
In addition to the documentary an interactive platform was created. Hosted by the web site ICI Radio-Canada, the game is known as “The Price We Pay : when tax turns into a recreation, make as a lot revenue as you possibly can without paying tax“.

Players fake to be entrepreneurs who need to flip native corporations into multinationals and experiment with tax avoidance in a number of nations (Canada, Brazil, United-States, Ireland, France, Cayman Islands, Luxembourg or Hong Kong).

Awards and Festivals

 * 2014 : Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
 * 2014 : Vancouver International Film Festival
 * 2014 : CPH : DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Festival
 * 2014 : Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal
 * 2015 : Canada's Top Ten - Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
 * 2015 : Best Canadian Documentary - Vancouver Film Critics Circle
 * 2015 : Belleville Downtown DocFest
 * 2015 : ZagrebDox Festival
 * 2015 : PLANETE+ Doc Film Festival Poland
 * 2015 : Salt Spring Film Festival
 * 2015 : Victoria Film Festival
 * 2015 : Wakefield International FF
 * 2015 : Coeur des Sciences UQAM
 * 2015 : Awareness Film Night
 * 2015 : Sofia International Film Festival
 * 2015 : Docu Days Ukraine
 * 2015 : Open City Documentary Festival London
 * 2015 : Crossroads Festival in Austria
 * 2015 : City University London, Tax Justice Network
 * 2015 : Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation
 * 2015 : PSI / FES Global Labour Tax Summit (ILO) Switzerland

Annexes
The Price We Pay / Official Website - http://www.thepricewepay.ca/

The Price We Pay / Imdb Page - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3921454/

The Price We Pay / Interactive Plateforme Game - http://leprixapayer.radio-canada.ca/

InformAction Films - The Price We Pay - http://www.informactionfilms.com/en/index.html

External hyperlinks

 * Harold Crooks
 * Brigitte Alepin
 * InformAction
 * Alter-globalization