Film screening: PINK RIBBONS, INC June 7, 2012

2011, Léa Pool, Canada, 98 min.

“Indignant and subversive…resoundingly pops the shiny pink balloon of the breast cancer movement/industry.”
—John Anderson, Variety

As provocative as it is powerful, this incisive film looks at the all-pervasive “pink” trappings with which the harsh reality of breast cancer, now the poster child of cause-related marketing, has been clothed. Cutting through the emotional highs generated by the activism of pink-clad runners, walkers, and demonstrators to survey the scores of companies and consumer products, including yogurt, automobiles, home appliances, beauty and hygiene products, and even fried chicken and a model of handgun, that have jumped on the lucrative pink bandwagon, director Pool boldly questions where the billions raised go and who ultimately benefits.

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Official Website: http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/pinkribbons