Crude Joe Berlinger
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Crude
Paese/Country: Usa / Usa
Anno Produzione Film: 2009
Formato/Format: Beta
Durata/Running Time: 104'
Produzione/Production: Entendre Films Production, @radical.media and Third Eye Motion Picture Company, Inc.
Produttore/Producer : Joe Berlinger, Michael Bonfiglio
Sceneggiatura/Screenplay: Joe Berlinger, Michael Bonfiglio, J.R. Deleon, Richard Stratton
Montaggio/Editing: Alyse Ardell Spiegel
Fotografia/Cinematography: Juan Diego Pérez
Sound Editor: Edward L. O'Conner, Leòn Felipe Troya
Musica/Music: Wendy Blackstone
Distribuzione/Distribution: First Run Features
I fiumi e la terra traboccano di petrolio nero e gommoso e di altre sostanze tossiche. Siamo nella zona amazzonica dell'Ecuador, dove gli indiani ricordano ancora com'era la foresta pluviale incontaminata e non ancora invasa dall'uomo bianco. Secoya, Huaorani, Quichua e altri gruppi indigeni si sono uniti nella protesta contro la compagnia petrolifera "Chevron", colpevole di uno dei più gravi disastri ecologici della storia dell'umanità. Un giovane e coraggioso avvocato indigeno, aiutato da colleghi nordamericani e da migliaia di sottoscrizioni da tutto il mondo, avvia una causa legale presso un tribunale statunitense. Mentre combatte in aula contro le menzogne e l'arroganza dei legali della Chevron, nella zona amazzonica colpita la gente continua a morire e ad ammalarsi.
The rivers and the earth overflow with dark and gummy oil, as well as with other polluters. The film is set in the Ecuadorean Amazon, where Indians can still remember the virgin rainforest as it was before the white man invaded it. The Secoya, Huaorani, Quichua, and other indigenous groups get together to protest against the oil firm Chevron, accused of being responsible for one of the most serious ecological disasters in history. A young and brave native lawyer, supported by North American colleagues and by thousands of petitions from all over the world, launches a lawsuit in an American court. While he is fighting the lies and arrogance of Chevron's attorneys in the courtroom, people in the stricken Amazon area keep dying and getting sick.
Joe Berlinger Anno di Nascita/Date of Birth: 1961
Paese/Country: USA / USA
Biografia/Biography:
Joe Berlinger is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist and photographer, whose films include the celebrated documentaries Brother's Keeper, Paradise Lost, and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. Joe Berlinger made his first independent film in 1989. Outrageous Taxi Stories, a documentary short, became a cult favorite on the festival circuit. Three years later, Berlinger and frequent collaborator Bruce Sinofsky received international acclaim for their Sundance-winning feature Brother's Keeper. Named 1992's "Best Documentary" by the DGA, the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Board of Review, the film appeared on the "10 Best Films of the Year" lists of over 50 major critics. Brother's Keeper became one of the most successful self-distributed documentaries of all time, helping usher in a new era of independent documentary filmmaking.
Filmografia/FilmographyOutrageous Taxi Stories, USA, 1989, ft
Brother's Keeper, USA, 1992, doc
The beginning name, USA, 1995, ft
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, USA, 2000, ft
One Who Day, USA, 2002, ft
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, USA, 2004, doc
Crude, USA, 2009, doc
