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It’s the largest auto scam in the world and it’s not over yet. What began in California is reverberating globally and the Media Policy Center has the “exclusive” inside story from the men and women (mostly women) who took down this auto giant.
BACKFIRED: When VW Lied to America, narrated by veteran journalist, Warren Olney, is the one-hour television special that reveals step-by-step the covert investigation that led to the bombshell discovery of evidence pointing to the installation of defeat devices in VW diesel cars to deliberately circumvent and avoid California and U.S. vehicle emissions standards on a scale never imagined.
Educational and Institutional Sales and Rentals
In 2008, Volkswagen executives proclaimed they would “dominate the auto industry by 2018, economically and environmentally.” Now, those executives are dominating the news with admissions of guilt; some already behind bars. Climate change and the impact on the health of our planet superseded by a malicious tale of premediated corporate greed and corruption. MONKEY BUSINESS!
THE INSIDE STORY
The Media Policy Center secured unprecedented authorization from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to disclose CARB’s role in revealing and verifying Volkswagen’s deceitful practices.
BACKFIRED: When VW Lied to America tells the inside story of the VW scandal as it unravels beginning at West Virginia University in 2013 where a group of unsuspecting students accidentally discover the defeat device while doing rare on-road testing. They immediately share their stunning discovery with CARB that verifies the findings and engages with the EPA and DOJ to carefully plot filing suit against VW’s top executives. VW is slapped with the largest fine in U.S. auto history: $15 billion in what’s now known as “Dieselgate.” And, it gets worse. Most recently, it was discovered that VW secretly tested emissions from defeat devices on innocent monkeys at a lab in New Mexico.
From West Virginia to California, to Washington DC, to Germany and Paris, we hear from those who broke the case and sought justice. Among others, CARB Chair, Mary Nichols; leading VW class action attorney, Elizabeth Cabraser, former EPA lead investigator Cynthia Giles, DOJ lead investigator John Cruden, New York Times reporter Jack Ewing, and two of the biggest leaders in climate change, California governors Jerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger, at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December 2015.
BACKFIRED: How VW Lied to America will leave viewers with new insight into the role of regulators, the power of money and most important, make us think about the role of our citizenry, our civilization and our obligations to our children. The question is: will the VW scandal put an end to corporate deceit? Can media help to restore honesty and integrity to “corporate governance?”
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT BACKFIRED
Read what Forbes contributor and global auto business expert, David Kiley, wrote about this important film: Volkswagen Diesel Scandal Coming To A TV Screen and Movie Theater Near You
Here is what Elizabeth Cabraser, lead attorney, VW consumer class-action lawsuit, has to say about the film: “BACKFIRED: When VW Lied To America”
THE TEAM
Media Policy Center co-founder, Dale Bell, is the Co-Executive Producer, Director and Cameraman of “BACKFIRED: When VW Lied to America.” Co-founder of MPC, Harry Willand, also serves as Co-Executive Producer. Wally Baker is an additional Executive Producer. Margie Friedman is the film’s Producer and Ralph Herman, the Editor. Waleska Santiago and Marty Thiel are Associate Producers.
To see an interview with director, Dale Bell, click here:
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BACKFIRED: When VW Lied to America is available to educational institutions, organizations and for screening at events and conferences along with public performance rights.
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