Cannes Lions
WHITEHOUSE POST, Chicago / OXFAM / 2018
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When multinationals avoid paying tax, they rob people of the money used to fund vital public services. The film begins like a film trailer from a Hollywood heist movie, but we soon realize the robbers aren’t after money. The expressionless masked characters, representing corporations who don’t pay their fair share of tax, rush through the doors, past reception and into what we discover is not a bank, but a hospital. In a meticulously coordinated and choreographed operation, the robbers begin to remove vital, life saving equipment from the hospital. Each scene is a moment of choreographed ruthlessness. They steal pills, oxygen masks, and intravenous drips. The final remover stops in his tracks as he hears a crying baby. He hovers over the incubator and unplugs the life supporting machine, as the babies mother watches on, and we see the real human impact of these callous actions.
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