The Tobacco Conspiracy

200551 min 47 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Nadia Collot

Production: Marie Hélène Ranc (Kuiv Productions)Joanne Carrière (National Film Board of Canada)Michel Rotman (Kuiv Productions)Éric Michel (National Film Board of Canada)

Script: Nadia Collot

A Kuiv Productions and National Film Board of Canada co-production, with the participation of France 2, the collaboration of RTBF - Télévision belge and Télévision Suisse Romande, and with the assistantce of Procirep - Société des producteurs, and ANGOA-AGICOA of the Centre national de la cinématogrpahie.

This France-Canada co-production goes behind the scenes of the huge tobacco industry, whose economic power has been expanding for five decades at the expense of public health. A gripping investigation covering three continents, Nadia Collot's film exposes the vast conspiracy of a criminally negligent industry that conquers new markets through corruption and manipulation. To confront the tobacco cartel, anti-smoking groups are organizing and scoring points, but the fight remains fierce. With ist diverse viewpoints, shocking interviews and riveting images, The Tobacco Conspiracy deftly defines the issues in a complex situation where private interests and the public good collide. Enlightening and engrossing, this documentary is a hard-hitting critique of an industry gone mad.

Subject categories


  • Industry and Commerce > Advertising and Consumerism
  • Health and Medicine > Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco

Credits


writer
Nadia Collot
director
Nadia Collot
assistant to the director
Vincent Sacripanti
editing
Maureen Mazurek
Florence Ricard
Gianni Collot
Laure Martin Budin
sound editing
Peter Lopata
music
René Schmid
technical consultant
Jérémie Canut
camera
Patrick Ghiringhelli
Nadia Collot
Luc David
Stéphane Carbon
Antoine Roux
David MacCormick
Olivier Belkebir
Étienne Sauret
Sylvestre Guidi
Santiago Bertolino
Marc Gadoury
Jean-Marc Ouvrier Buffet
assistant camera
Lazare Pedron
sound engineer
Éric Messié
Pascal Chowanek
key grip
Jérémie Tondowski
gaffer
Younès Najfar
electrician
Véronique Bosi
location manager
Alice Cordie
makeup
Marthe Faucouit
actor
Norman Stokle
William Dunn
Les Clack
Robert Barr
Erik Svane
Gérard Couchet
Alain Gerardin
Claire Dassonval
Jing Cheng
Liam Schmid
Malo Goudeneige
sound
Éric Messié
Pascal Chowanek
Annie Knoxvell Needham
Christian Holms
Neville Champedal
Chip Hogg
Richard Lavoie
props
Céline Aubert
drawings
Jean-Claude Paris
storyboard
Jean-Claude Paris
camera assistant
Inoussa Saouna
Salifou Salifouzé
Aziz Boubacar
administration
Bernard Kieffer
production manager
Vincent Gazaigne
media relations
Reda Benhameurlaine
distribution
Reda Benhameurlaine
computer graphics
Thierry Merli
computer graphics - assistance
Julie Yadi
post-production co-ordinator
Jean-Pierre St-Michel
Andrée Delagrave
administrator
Maryse Chapdelaine
administrator - assistant
Isabelle de Bellefeuille
Nathalie Cloutier
project coordinator
Brigitte Couture
editing assistant
Nicolas Despres
Emmanuelle Legendre
Nathalie Warum
Guillaume Millet
technical support
Chaz Oliver
Isabelle Painchaud
narration
Nadia Collot
casting director
Kathleen Fee
casting
Kathleen Fee
voice recording
Kathleen Fee
Geoffrey Mitchell
voice
Maria Bircher
Mark Camacho
Luis de Cespedes
Nadia Collot
Richard Dumont
Holly Gauthier-Frankel
John Tarzwell
re-recording
Serge Boivin
additional music
Kevin Fletcher Tweedy
subtitles
Kathleen Fee
online editing
Sylvain Desbiens
Denis Gathelier
image processing
Louise Overy
Pierre Landry
credits
Gaspard Gaudreau
stock shot research
Pascale Bilodeau
Emmanuelle Charles
Annick De Vries
Elizabeth Klinck
Isabelle Langerome
line production
Annick De Vries
producer
Marie Hélène Ranc
Joanne Carrière
executive producer
Michel Rotman
Éric Michel