Doc Soup: The Panama Papers

Wednesday, April 03, 2019 @ 7:00 PM
Eau Claire Market #5 - 200 Barclay Parade SW, Calgary, AB
$15 General | $13 Student/Senior | $68 Subscription (SOLD OUT)

THE PANAMA PAPERS is a feature documentary that charts the story of the massive data leak that exposed the largest global corruption scandal in history. Hundreds of journalists around the globe worked in secret, at great personal risk, to reveal a scandal involving corrupt power brokers, the uber rich, elected officials, dictators, cartel bosses, athletes and celebrities who had used the Panamanian law firm of Mossack Fonseca to hide their money for any number of illegal reasons. The reports detailed tax evasion, fraud, cronyism, bribing government officials, election meddling, and murder. The investigation proved that the system is rigged, and cracked the vault of well-kept secrets and ill-gotten wealth, revealing vast and coordinated corruption among the world’s elite. The significance for the average, tax paying, law-abiding citizen is enormous; with the leaks showing that at least $32 trillion was hiding in more than 80 tax havens in 2010 alone. But breaking the story was only the beginning. There was immediate blowback from many of the named and accused, who are using every tactic imaginable to silence the journalists.

About Doc Soup Calgary

Doc Soup Calgary is a monthly feature-length documentary series presented in partnership with the Calgary International Film Festival and Hot Docs. The series is now in its 11th year and runs from November 2018 to April 2019. Screening on the first Wednesday of each month, Doc Soup Calgary brings six of the year's most talked-about docs to local audiences.

The screening dates for the 2018-19 season are:

Wednesday, November 7, 2018, 7 pm at Cineplex Eau Claire – THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING
Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 7 pm at Cineplex Eau Claire – CHEF FLYNN
Wednesday, January 9, 2019, 7 pm at Globe Cinema – THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET
Wednesday, February 6, 2019, 7 pm at Cineplex Eau Claire – ALL THE WILD HORSES
Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 7 pm at Cineplex Eau Claire – BATHTUBS OVER BROADWAY
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 7 pm at Cineplex Eau Claire – THE PANAMA PAPERS

Each film in the series is announced one month in advance. Single tickets to each film will be available for purchase at that time.

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