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August 14, 2014

World premier of The Price We Pay @ TIFF

The Price We Pay by Harold Crooks will have its world premiere at TIFF on Friday September 5th at 5pm at the TIFF Bell Lightbox Cinema 3. ‘’One of the most unsettling films I saw all year, and one of the smartest’’ said senior TIFF programmer Steve Gravestock. A second public screening Sunday, September 7th at 9.30 am at the Art Gallery of Ontario

Tax havens, originally created by London bankers in the 50s, today put over half the world’s stock of money beyond the reach of public treasuries. Nation states are being reshaped by this offshoring of the world’s wealth. Tax avoidance by big corporations and the wealth – citizens of nowhere for tax  purposes – is paving the way to historic levels of inequality and placing the tax burden on the middle class and the poor. Crusading journalists, tax justice campaigners and former finance and technology  industry insiders speak frankly about the accelerating trends that are carrying the Western world to an unsustainable future.