A Documentary I Would Go & See

A true documentary is always interesting and there are some good ones being shown but thanks to media "stars" like Moore topics that need close examination have become nothing by hatchet jobs to further the agenda of the left.........

Globalization bites

By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN

Memo to Michael Moore: It is possible to criticize America without bashing your audiences over the head with it.

For anyone tired of the “America bad” school of documentary film-making perfected by Moore and now widely imitated after his huge success with Fahrenheit 9/11, take heart.

There is a better way to make documentaries that convey a political message — in this case a new, smart and occasionally hilarious film exploring the threat to local workers and cultures posed by globalization.

Called Office Tigers, it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last week and will have its final showing Saturday at 5:30 p.m. at the ROM. (Full disclosure: The film’s producer, Montreal-born Lawrence Elman, who heads Drive Thru Pictures, is my cousin.)

Directed by Liz Mermin, Office Tigers is an entertaining and surprisingly balanced critique of the perils of globalization and the incredibly seductive power of American popular culture.

To explore these themes, Mermin takes us inside the corporate culture of a real company called Office Tiger.

With 3,500 employees on three continents, it’s run out of Chennai, India by a driven young

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