A community is powerfully uniting, as corporate greed is breaking up a massive family grocery store empire, in Shockya’s exclusive clip from the new documentary, ‘We The People: The Market Basket Effect.’ The clip follows business people and New England residents, including Lowell, Massachusetts native, Ted Leonsis, the owner of the Washington Wizards and Capitals, as they chronicle how so-called financial experts and relatives don’t always know how to best serve their neighborhood. The movie, which was honored with the Audience Award at last year’s Boston Film Festival, is currently playing in New England theaters. FilmBuff is also set to distribute the documentary into screens in New York last Friday, [ Read More ]
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- 4/27/2016
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Read More: How to Take a Regional Story and Give it Mainstream Appeal Tommy Reid's documentary "We The People: The Market Basket Effect" focuses on the relationship of the Demoulas family over control of their $4 billion supermarket chain, Market Basket. In the summer of 2014, 25,000 non-union employees and nearly two million devoted customers organized a boycott of the Lowell, Massachusetts-based Market Basket supermarket chain in order to regain control of their company and reinstate their beloved CEO Arthur T. Demoulas. The chain of events leading up to and including the boycott held the livelihoods of 25,000 employees hanging in the balance and effectively resolved a family feud in a way that courts never could. The film is produced by Ted Leonsis (founder of Indiewire parent company SnagFilms), Nick Buzzell and Robert "Bobby" Friedman and executive produced by Mike Buzzell (Nbtv Studios) and Todd Hoffman (Bungalow Media + Entertainment)....
- 10/26/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Read More: Attention, Documentary Filmmakers: Here's What You Need to Know Before You Start Production It's a David and Goliath story that most New Englanders are familiar with: In the summer of 2014, 25,000 non-union employees and nearly two million devoted customers organized a boycott of the Lowell, Massachusetts-based Market Basket supermarket chain in order to regain control of their company and reinstate their beloved CEO Arthur T. Demoulas. Now a new documentary "We The People: The Market Basket Effect" will tell the story behind the organized boycott and how the Demoulas Super Market family empire was saved by community support. Two of the executive producers, one of the producers and the film's narrator, Michael Chiklis, are all from New England. The film is executive produced by New Hampshire natives Nick Buzzell and Mike Buzzell (Nbtv Studios) as well as Robert "Bobby" Friedman and Todd Hoffman (Bungalow Media + Entertainment)....
- 3/12/2015
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
Nbtv Studios & Bungalow Media + Entertainment in association with Dundee Entertainment and Hammer Productions are filming a documentary about the organised boycott of the Market Basket supermarket chain in summer 2014.
We The People: The Market Basket Effect (working title) will recount how 25,000 non-union employees and nearly two million customers boycott the chain in order to regain control of the company and reinstate CEO Arthur T Demoulas.
Tommy Reid directs and Michael Chiklis narrates the project.
New Hampshire natives Nick Buzzell and Mike Buzzell of Nbtv serve as executive producers alongside Robert “Bobby” Friedman and Todd Hoffman of Bungalow.
Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer and SnagFilms founder and chairman Ted Leonsis produces.
We The People: The Market Basket Effect (working title) will recount how 25,000 non-union employees and nearly two million customers boycott the chain in order to regain control of the company and reinstate CEO Arthur T Demoulas.
Tommy Reid directs and Michael Chiklis narrates the project.
New Hampshire natives Nick Buzzell and Mike Buzzell of Nbtv serve as executive producers alongside Robert “Bobby” Friedman and Todd Hoffman of Bungalow.
Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer and SnagFilms founder and chairman Ted Leonsis produces.
- 3/6/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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