An anonymous letter. A mysterious source. An exposé of the biggest bribery scandal in modern history.
Updates
April 15-16 Screening in New York with Special Guests
Q&As with director Peter Klein and director of photography Claire Ward, moderated by Simon Ostrovsky, Emmy- and DuPont-winning reporter, and Ali Velshi, longtime business reporter and host at MSNBC.
US Premiere at Beverly Hills Film Festival on April 3
Join us Thursday, April 3rd where BRIBE, INC. will have its US Premiere at the Beverly Hills Film Festival.
The Cost of Doing Business: Why bribery is still all around us
This Op-Ed by director/producer Peter Klein was featured in the Globe and Mail, and discusses what constitutes a bribe, and its harmful implications.
About the Film
BRIBE, INC. is a true story exposing the shady underpinnings that fuel global commerce: corruption and lots of money.
IN THE SHADOWS OF THE GLOBAL OIL INDUSTRY the Ahsani family ran Unaoil with jet-set style and total impunity. Until journalist Nick McKenzie encountered a whistleblower with enough insider intel to take the whole gang down.
IN A MANHUNT spanning the globe Nick untangles the Ahsanis’ web of deceit and corruption exposing them as the grubby crime family they are. As the plot twists and turns will justice be served?
The Take-down Mission
BRIBE, INC. follows four people pulled into the vortex of Unaoil’s crimes.
An anonymous whistleblower code-named “Figaro,” investigative reporter Nick McKenzie, prosecutor Tom Martin, and anti-corruption activist Alexandra Wrage join forces to expose the Ahsanis and the magnitude of their crimes. The evidence is overwhelming.
The Issues
Bribery is a $1 trillion-a-year business.
It’s still seen as the “cost of doing business” in some circles, just a “victimless crime.” But, as Alexandra Wrage explains in the film, “there are real consequences to bribery.” It’s central to everything from drug running to human trafficking to terrorism. Which is why millions of frustrated people have been moved to take to the streets all over the globe, to demand an end to the corruption that erodes democracy and makes life a living hell for so many.
BRIBE, INC. shows the impacts of this crime that lurks in every dark corner of global commerce. As Wrage notes: “At the end of the day it’s just a grubby crime.”
The Filmmakers
Meet the award-winning team behind the camera.
Hidden Item
PETER KLEIN, Director and Executive Producer
Peter is a three-time Emmy Award-winning director and producer who has created dozens of hours of documentary programming during his 30-year career. As a founding producer of New York Times Video News International, he was one of the pioneers of small-format vérité documentary filmmaking. He went on to shoot year-long documentaries for ABC News Nightline, investigative films for PBS Frontline, and policy-changing global exposés for CBS News 60 Minutes. He created the Emmy-nominated History Channel investigative documentary series Beyond Top Secret, served as senior producer of the serialized CBS documentary program I-Witness, and founded the non-profit Global Reporting Centre.
MIKE JACKSON, Editor
Mike is an Emmy-nominated editor, as well as an award-winning director. He has cut for Peter Klein on numerous other projects, including Beyond Top Secret (for which he was nominated for an Emmy) and Green Scare with Dan Rather. He has edited projects and features for Disney, CBS, the History Channel, and Legendary Pictures. Recent features he has cut include the award-winning coming-of-age drama Golden Delicious, and Taming the Beast, a documentary about legendary British strongman Eddie Hall.
KIM FRANK, Editor
Kim began working as a video editor in 2004, after a long career as a contemporary dancer and choreographer. She edited the Emmy Award winning FRONTLINE documentary “Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground,” and the Emmy-nominated “In a Small Town” for PBS Exposé. Other credits include documentaries for the Discovery Channel, Omni, CNBC, New York Times TV, and Dan Rather Reports.
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CALYN SHAW, Producer
Calyn Shaw is a longtime producer of bold investigative journalism. His documentary work includes an episode of People and Power for Al Jazeera about mental health in under-resourced environments, and an award-winning PBS Frontline investigation of broken supply chains during the Covid-19 pandemic. At CBC News Network his investigative work detailed flaws in the government’s response to bridge suicides in Vancouver, and for the New York Times he exposed targeted killings over farmland in Brazil. His recent work includes longform articles about offshore tax dodging for the Toronto Star and Mother Jones. He was formerly a senior writer at CBC News, and is now Acting Executive Editor at the UBC Global Reporting Centre.
CLAIRE WARD, Director of Photography
Claire is an award-winning journalist and longtime documentary cameraperson and producer for VICE News and VICE on HBO, with experience shooting in over 20 countries. She is a journalist first, cameraperson second, and approaches each project with sensitivity and integrity. She has taught visual journalism at the UBC School of Journalism and the University of King’s College in Halifax as well as Master classes at her alma mater, NYU.
MARK MILLER, Executive Producer
Mark is a television and film executive who has been a central figure in Vancouver’s unscripted industry for more than a decade, executive producing series including Game of Homes, Save My Reno, High Arctic Haulers, Queen of the Oil Patch, Mud Mountain Haulers, and Highway Thru Hell and its spin-off Heavy Rescue: 401. Mark served as president and board director of Thunderbird Entertainment Group, helping to guide the company as it went public in 2018. Mark also co-founded, and led as CEO, Great Pacific Media, which became part of Thunderbird in 2014.
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