The Price We Pay (2014 film)

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The Price We Pay
Directed by Harold Crooks
Written byHarold Crooks
Brigitte Alepin
Based onLa Crise fiscale qui vient by Brigitte Alepin
Produced byNathalie Barton
Production
company
Distributed byFilmoption
Cinemaflix
Release date
  • September 5, 2014 (2014-09-05)(TIFF)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The Price We Pay is a 2014 Canadian documentary film. It premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. [1] Directed by Harold Crooks and based on Brigitte Alepin's book La Crise fiscale qui vient, [2] the film profiles the use of tax havens by large corporations as a dodge from having to pay corporate taxes. [3]

The film was named to TIFF's annual Top Ten Canadian Films list, [4] and had its general theatrical release in 2015. [2]

The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards, [5] and a Quebec Cinema nomination for Best Documentary Film at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards. It won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Canadian Documentary at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2014. [6]

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