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Making a Killing : Philip Morris, Kraft and Global Tobacco Addiction

A 30 minutes documentary by ACADEMY award winning film-makers

Making a Killing : Philip Morris, Kraft and Global Tobacco Addiction …, a documentary from award-winning film-makers Kelly Anderson and Tami Gold, and produced by Academy Award winning unit of INFACT (Academy Award 1992 – for Deadly Deception), is being screened in over 40 countries to mark International Weeks to Resist Tobacco Transnationals (April 7-20).

            Making a Killing documentary Reveals the burning truth in once-secret tobacco industry documents: how Philip Morris has conspired to hook children on tobacco and keep governments from protecting public health.. It shows shocking international promotion of brands like Marlboro, including free cigarette giveaways... It Documents how Philip Morris hides behind Kraft Foods—contributing to political campaigns, lobbying against regulations, and influencing media coverage... It Exposes who profits from this corporation’s worldwide expansion at the expense of people and communities around the globe... It  Tells the inspiring stories of people like Wayne Baker and Charyn Sutton, who have suffered grave losses to tobacco giants and are fighting back... 

About the film :

Award-winning filmmakers Kelly Anderson and Tami Gold (Out at Work, Another Brother) team up with Academy Award-winning executive producer Infact for the world festival premiere of the film that’s got Philip Morris scared. Making a Killing: Philip Morris, Kraft and Global Tobacco Addiction reveals the ugly truth about the tobacco giant, a $62 billion corporation that uses outrageous tactics like the Marlboro Man to promote tobacco to young people, and exerts undue influence over public policy in every corner of the globe.

Making a Killing was produced and directed by award-winning filmmakers Kelly Anderson and Tami Gold, known for their hard-hitting documentaries. Anderson and Gold have been collaborating for more than ten years. In 1997 they completed Out At Work, which was screened at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, received a GLAAD Media Award for Best Documentary and aired on Home Box Office. Recent AndersonGold Films productions include Another Brother (directed by Tami Gold), about Vietnam Veteran and anti-war activist Clarence Fitch, which had a PBS national broadcast and was the recipient of the CINE Golden Eagle Award. Shift (directed by Kelly Anderson), a one hour ITVS drama, premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and aired on public television stations nationally. Executive producer Infact won an Academy Award for its 1991 film, Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons, and our Environment. Deadly Deception was a key factor in pushing GE out of the nuclear weapons business. Since 1977, Infact has been exposing life-threatening abuses by transnational corporations and organizing successful grassroots campaigns to hold corporations accountable. From the Nestlé Boycott of the 1970’s and 1980’s over infant formula marketing, to the GE Boycott of the 1980’s and 1990’s over nuclear weapons production and promotion, to today’s Boycott of Philip Morris’s Kraft Foods, Infact organizes to win.

At their best, documentary films can be a powerful tool in the fight for social justice. Tapping this rich tradition, Making a Killing exposes Philip Morris’s deadliest abuses-and realizes the corporation’s worst fears. In a training manual for top management, Philip Morris has written, “Risk always exists that group [Infact] will use innovative tactic e.g. documentaries that could involve and activate a larger segment, particularly outside the US.” Now, that tactic is mobilizing growing numbers of consumers behind Infact’s Kraft Boycott-and Making a Killing will shock even those who believe they have seen it all from tobacco corporations.

For screening, contact :

Sangita Nayak, INFACT 46 Plympton St Boston, MA 02118 USA PH. 617-695-2525 FAX 617-695-2626

From Siberia to Ecuador, and from Zambia to Amsterdam, “Making a Killing: Philip Morris, Kraft, and Global Tobacco Addiction” has now been seen by over ten thousand people. The impact of the film has already been felt in many countries, here are just a few of their stories:

In Albania, Sara Bogdani, a Marlboro Girl, who conducted free sampling of Marlboros in Tirana, saw “Making a Killing” in October 2000 in her school, during the International Week of Resistance to Tobacco Transnationals. Sara said about organizer Roland Shuperka, in a recent interview “when he came to my school, on the occasion of the “Week of Resistance to Tobacco Transnationals” to show the film “Making a Killing.” I was still working for Philip Morris. I was really shocked by what I saw.” Sara quit her job with Philip Morris and is now joining “For a Tobacco-Free Albania” to work on campaigning for legislation that restricts tobacco advertising and promotion.

In Hungary, The Health 21 Foundation organized the first meeting of the National Forum on Tobacco Control during the International Week of Resistance to Tobacco in October 2000. This Forum discussed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and created a plan of action. The film “Making a Killing: Philip Morris, Kraft, and Global Tobacco Addiction” inspired legislators and activists to include language on banning advertisements in a resolution they sent to the Parliament. Within the next two months an amendment had been introduced in Parliament which banned advertising and promotion of tobacco in Hungary. The ban was successfully passed. In the Budapest Sun, a Philip Morris regional manager commented on the lack of industry involvement in the new regulation, adding, “ I am very disappointed by the law because the Hungarian government has decided to introduce it without prior consultation.”  

Flora Tanujaya, of PATH Canada Vietnam, has shown the film to key Ministries, health agencies, and consumer organizations in Hanoi. Just prior to the film’s release, the Marlboro sampling girls revealed in “Making a Killing” were no longer legal in Vietnam.