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- maandag, March 29, 2010 - 21:45
Filmhuis Den Haag zaal 6
- woensdag, March 31, 2010 - 17:00
Filmhuis Den Haag zaal 6
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Crude - Introduction Heleen Tiemersma
woensdag, March 31, 2010 - 17:00
Short introduction by Heleen Tiemersma of Amnesty International.
Crude
Joe Berlinger
Some call it the Chernobyl disaster of the Amazone: the many years of dumping waste oil in one of the world’s largest wildlife areas. Between 1964 and 1990 Texaco dumped billions of litres of toxic waste in the Amazone, leading to water, air and soil pollution in the area. Public health is affected correspondingly: the number of cancer cases has skyrocketed. The oil company, which is now part of Chevron, declines all responsibility, however. According to Chevron, the problems are caused entirely by the state oil company that took over oil extraction a few years ago. Thirty thousand Ecuadorians filed a collective lawsuit against Texaco in 1993, accusing it of systematically destroying and polluting their living environment. Director Joe Berlinger ('Brother's Keeper', 'Paradise Lost' and 'Metallica: Some Kind of Monster') followed this trial for more than three years in this award-winning documentary, which in spite of being well-balanced clearly reveals his sympathy for the film’s protagonist, lawyer Pablo Fajardo, who once worked in the oilfields himself.
United States, Ecuador, United Kingdom 2009, 100 min.
Documentary, Video, Colour
Spoken language: English, Spanish
Subtitles: English
Official website: http://www.crudethemovie.com
Awards: Current Energy Filmmaker Award – AFI Dallas International Film Festival 2009 Best Editing – Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2009 OFF Docúpolis Award – Docúpolis International Documentary Film Festival 2009 Grand Jury Prize – Independent Film Festival of
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