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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Josh Rottenberg

At Sundance, Abigail Disney calls out corporate greed. Beginning with Disney

LOS ANGELES — For the last few years, Abigail Disney has waged an often bitter public campaign against the company that bears her last name, calling out Walt Disney Co. for what she sees as its egregious pay inequality.

In 2019, Disney wrote a viral Twitter thread calling the compensation of then-Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger, which topped $65 million in 2018, "insane." That same year, she testified before the House Financial Services Committee at a hearing on strengthening the rights of workers.

Now the documentary film producer and philanthropist has done what the company her grandfather Roy O. Disney founded with her great-uncle Walt has been doing for nearly a century: She made a movie.

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