Crude

Synopsis: Joe Berlinger’s cinéma-vérité feature tells the epic story of one of the world’s largest and most controversial legal cases. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion "Amazon Chernobyl" case, CRUDE tells the story of a high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking as it examines a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2010
Notes: The DVD is currently out of distribution but the film is available to download from iTunes
Subjects: Development studies; Environmental science
Keywords: campaigning films; documentary films; ecology; environmental issues; human rights; multinational corporations

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Notes: Dogwoof is an independent distributor specialising in quality films from around the world that raise awareness, trigger change, and get people involved. The main focus is socially conscious films including THE AGE OF STUPID, THE END OF THE LINE, BURMA VJ and BLACK GOLD. Sale on DVD. In Autumn 2011 Dogwoof launched Popup Cinema (http://popupcinema.net/) to allow non-theatric screenings of their just-released and classic titles.

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