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The Oxy Kingpins

Directors: Brendan FitzGerald, Nick August-Perna
Documentary Features
Running Time:80:15 minutes
Event Date(s)
7:30 PM EST
Friday, November 12
Jengo's Playhouse
Credits:

Executive Producers: Chris Smith: Library Films, Hayley Pappas and Matt Ippolito: SecondNature, Sue Turley and Michael Chow: XRM Media, Steve Oh & Cenk Uygur: TYT Productions;
Co-Producers: Zefrey Throwell, Tyler Strickland
Editors: Lise Lavellé, Jeremy Stulberg, Barry Polterman

The capule is pried open in this untold look on how a network of pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and retailers worked together to orchestrate and perpetuate the opioid crisis that has killed over half a million people in America. This story is about more than just the opioid crisis. It is a film that captures the corruption in business and the lengths that corporations are willing to go for their bottom line. A critique on late-stage capitalism and a cautionary tale of unfettered greed.