Looking to feast your eyes on crude on your tv or mobile device at home. Some kind of monsterall codirected with bruce sinofsky,and now, crude. Documentarian joe berlinger exposes texacos horrific contamination of indigenous communities in ecuador, following the. Director joe berlinger continues in the tradition of his justicedriven films brothers keeper and paradise lost with this documentary. The plaintiffs are 30,000 individuals, including members of five indigenous tribes and colonial settlers in ecuador who allege that over the course of its quest for oil, texaco dumped over 18 billion gallons of. This riveting film tells the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet.
Crude travels to south america, where it investigates the mammoth amazon chernobyl case from a variety of angles, refusing to take the side of any single person or side. The real price of oil, points out that the bp spill is finally bringing americans attention to the damage caused by. Court rules against joe berlinger on crude variety. The plaintiffs claim that texaco which merged with chevron in 2001 spent three decades systematically. It follows a twoyear portion of an ongoing class action lawsuit against the chevron corporation in ecuador.
Crude s important story, and what you can do to help 03182010 05. Born in bridgeport, connecticut, in 1961, berlinger studied english and german at colgate university, and got his first taste of the movie business while working on tv. Last year, berlinger released crude, an excellent documentary about this lengthy, complex legal battle. Three years in the making, this cinemaverite feature from acclaimed filmmaker joe berlinger brothers keeper, paradise lost, metallica. Crude constitutes joe berlinger s account of texacos alleged pollution in ecuador massive oil spills that reportedly contributed to tens of thousands of cases of illness and an untold number of deaths, and nearly extinguished the population of an entire village.
From brothers keeper to some kind of monster, director joe berlinger has made documentaries on communities in crisis. Lawyer in crude case will have to testify, judge says. Searching for a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the joe berlinger directed movie via subscription can. Joe berlinger knows how to craft a villain in his documentaries, and while it seems john mark byers from paradise lost wasnt a villain after all, i think berlinger is right on in how chevron and their representatives are portrayed in this documentary. Three years in the making, crude tells the epic story of one of the. Rarely have such conflicts been examined with the depth and power of joe berlinger s documentary crude. The documentarian in 2009, filmmaker joe berlinger released crude, a documentary that followed key players in a multibilliondollar classaction lawsuit against. The documentarian in 2009, filmmaker joe berlinger released crude, a documentary that followed key players in. Court orders documentary filmmaker to hand ecuador footage. Crude is a 2009 american documentary film directed and produced by joe berlinger. Joe berlinger joseph berlinger is an american filmmaker, and producer.
Rather than attacking the oil industry as a whole, berlinger is simply showing a single story. Chevrontexaco is the landmark lawsuit filed against chevron by 30,000. Berlinger fought the request, citing reporters privilege, but in 2010 a federal judge ordered berlinger to turn over more than 600 hours of footage created during the films production. Crude director joe berlinger fights against chevrons. Berlinger s films include the landmark documentaries brothers keeper, the paradise lost trilogy, which helped lead to the recent release of the. In the documentary crude, joe berlinger depicts the atrocities of chevron, a company that drilled. Joe berlinger is the director and producer of the new movie crude. Youve got to hand it to berlinger for his evenhanded work on crude, a film that depicts immense sadness and stunning corporate villainy. Academy award and eighttime emmy nominated and peabody and emmywinning filmmaker joe berlinger has been a leading voice in nonfiction film and television for two decades.
We, the members of the executive committee of the documentary branch of the academy of motion picture arts and sciences, would like to add our support to. Some kind of monster tells the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. Moments ago the sundance institute announced the lineup of films screening in the competition categories for the 2009 sundance film festival, which will take place jan. Three years in the making, crude tells the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet.
With dan ashley, pablo fajardo, kent robertson, german yanez. The candid footage has come to light because chevrons lawyers persuaded a federal judge in new york to force a filmmaker who chronicled the legal fight, joe berlinger. Joe berlinger biography, age, wife, paradise lost, ted. Captive beauty 2011 crude 2009 extremely wicked, shockingly evil and vile 2019 from the ashes 2017 gray matter 2004 hank. From the sheltered safety of our spanish classroom, my classmates and i watched in shaken silence as onscreen, an unkempt indigenous woman wept over her daughters mounting cancer treatment bills. This is an important movie, and very actual indeed, now that bps crude politics produced another environmental megadisaster in the gulf of mexico, that will affect the north atlantic ocean, and beyond. In his latest documentary, crude, it takes the form of oilbillions of gallons of the stuff that have saturated a once pristine. Watch crude, the ecuadorian documentary by joe berlinger fandor.
In addition, they directly released toxic waste directly. Crude director joe berlinger on chevron oil in the. Crude the story of chevron texacos ecuador disaster. Amazon residents that is chronicled in the documentary film crude by joe berlinger. Berlinger s films include the landmark documentaries brothers keeper, the paradise lost trilogy, which helped lead to the recent. The story of lawsuit by tens of thousands of ecuadorans against. Joe berlingers crude vs chevron politics of culture. Last week a federal court in manhattan ordered a documentary filmmaker to hand over to chevron hundreds of hours of footage.
Crude is a documentary about a class action suit brought by the indigenous populations of ecuador against chevronwho merged with texaco and assumed their past liabilities including this one. Cutlers the september issue, ondi timoners we live in public and tom dicillos when youre strange on. Chevron has subpoenaed 600 hours of film outtakes to bolster their claim that the amazonians are waging a fraudulent case. In the past 15 or soyears, joe berlinger has certainly crafted his share of eye opening,edgy documentaries. Chevron and crudes joe berlinger locked in a legal. Some of the titles that jump out for us are joe berlinger s crude, r. This attentiongrabbing documentary directed by joe berlinger brothers keeper centers on the dramatic story of a legal case that has dragged on for years. He goes to the ecuadorian amazon for his latest, crude. When chevron saw director joe berlinger s 2009 documentary crude, a behindthescenes look at the lawsuit, the company believed it had found cinematic proof of. With his best friend and frequent collaborator bruce sinofsky, berlinger has co. His films draw attention to social justice issues in the us and abroad in such films as paradise lost. A federal judge in manhattan has ruled that he will not quash a subpoena from the oil company chevron seeking testimony from a lawyer depicted in the documentary crude, and that the lawyer will have to give testimony in a. Crude by joe berlinger joe berlinger, pablo fajardo, luis. But joe berlinger s crude, which opens next wednesday 9.
Chevron is one of the largest donors to the american cancer society another socalled unbiased agency. Six questions for joe berlinger about crude harpers. Not able to justify the high number of cases of cancer in nonsmokers chevron stooges pretending to be doctors blame it on second hand smoke. Three years in the making, this riveting new documentary from acclaimed filmmaker joe berlinger brothers keeper, paradise lost, metallica. Spirit awardwinning filmmaker joe berlinger thinks of himself as a storyteller first and a journalist second, which explains why his documentaries are more cinematic than the norm. Chevron corporation subpoenaed the outtakes from berlinger s 2009 film crude. Since the release of his breakout documentary brothers keeper in 1992, storyteller and documentarian joe berlinger has been obsessed with scrutinizing the criminal justice system in smalltown america and its sometimes frightening treatment of the socially abandoned. The decision involved director joe berlinger and his 2009 documentary crude, which chronicled ecuadoran residents class action suit against chevron over environmental damage to a rain. Joe berlinger is a filmmaker who makes documentaries that tell important stories with integrity, while still always entertaining his audiences. Joseph joe berlinger is an american documentary filmmaker.
Crudes important story, and what you can do to help. Crude is the latest masterpiece from filmmaker joe berlinger brothers keeper, paradise lost, metallica. In 2009, filmmaker joe berlinger released crude, a documentary that followed key players in a multibilliondollar classaction lawsuit against. Joe particularly focuses on true crime documentaries.
From brothers keeper,to paradise lost,and metallica. Moving briskly through a strangerthanfiction, serpentine narrative that is still unfolding, joe berlinger s remarkable documentary, crude, recounts an infuriating litany of south american. The real price of oil, which tells the story of an epic lawsuit filed against chevron by 30,000 indigenous rainforest dwellers in the ecuadorian amazon. But filmmaker joe berlinger is trying to stop chevron on first amendment grounds. Basically, it is alleged that a 1700 square mile area, the size of rhode island, has become a cancer deathzone due to negligent drilling practices, which included the creation of these probably over unlined pits where raw crude and toxic waste was dumped, and this material continues to leech into the water table.
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