VIFF Not Business As Usual - April 8th, 2014

Join us Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at 6:30 PM at the Vancouver International Film Festival Vancity Theatre for the public screening of Not Business As Usual and after film panel discussion.

$18 Ticket price includes a reception sponsored by RBC.

Doors: 5:30 PM | Film: 6:30 PM | Panel and Q & A: 7:40 PM | Reception: 9:00 PM | BUY TICKETS

Panel discussion moderated by: Sharad Khare.

Panelists include: W. Brett Wilson (Dragon’s Den), Joel Bakan (writer of The Corporation), Mark Brand (Save-On Meats), Sandra Odendahl (RBC Director of Sustainability).

Directors: Lawrence Le Lam and Rik Klingle-Watt

Capitalism. For more than a century it has driven immense technological progress, development and prosperity. It was the promise of something better… a better life for your family, a better start for your business, a better legacy to leave the world. Founded on the virtues of hard work, equal opportunity and a free market economy.

But somewhere between the dreaming, and the making, and the buying, and the selling – we were duped. And we’re just now beginning to realize how badly.

Not Business As Usual is a provocative look at capitalism as envisioned by Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman, the most influential economist of the late 20th century. The film explores why he only measured success by one metric: Profit. And how that narrow view has resulted in environmental destruction, human rights abuses and ironically enough, unsustainable business practices.

This 60-minute documentary by Lawrence Le Lam, Rik Kingle-Watt and Institute B tracks the changing landscape of business with the rising tide of “conscious capitalism” and features the inspiring stories of several subversive entrepreneurs from Vancouver who are redefining what it means to be successful.