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Joe Berlinger has chronicled children's murders in the gut wrenching Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, a heavy metal band's meltdown in Metallica: Some Kind of Monster and the lives of accomplished people in the Sundance Channel's series, Iconoclasts. In his latest documentary, he travels deep into the Ecuadorean Amazon jungle for a modern-day look at the heart of darkness. Crude, which has won a series of environmental and human rights awards, follows the 17-year struggle of a group of indigenous people in Ecuador suing Chevron for the devastation oil production has wrought on them and their villages. He tells the story through a formidable Ecuadorean lawyer named Pablo Fajardo who grew up impoverished in the oil rich village, worked the petroleum fields and then went on to get an education. His first case as a lawyer was against Chevron. Sometime this fall, the Ecuadorean...
Joe Berlinger has chronicled children's murders in the gut wrenching Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, a heavy metal band's meltdown in Metallica: Some Kind of Monster and the lives of accomplished people in the Sundance Channel's series, Iconoclasts. In his latest documentary, he travels deep into the Ecuadorean Amazon jungle for a modern-day look at the heart of darkness. Crude, which has won a series of environmental and human rights awards, follows the 17-year struggle of a group of indigenous people in Ecuador suing Chevron for the devastation oil production has wrought on them and their villages. He tells the story through a formidable Ecuadorean lawyer named Pablo Fajardo who grew up impoverished in the oil rich village, worked the petroleum fields and then went on to get an education. His first case as a lawyer was against Chevron. Sometime this fall, the Ecuadorean...
- 9/8/2009
- by maint
- Film Independent
Spirit Award-winning 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. With his best friend and frequent collaborator Bruce Sinofsky, Berlinger has co-directed some of the more complex and gripping American docs in recent years, including the bizarre murder-trial exposés "Brother's Keeper" and "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" (along with the latter's sequel), and the metalhead therapy session "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster."
But now Berlinger steps out on his own with "Crude," a heartbreaking and compellingly multifaceted epic about the so-called "Amazon Chernobyl" case, in which 30,000 Ecuadorians -- many from the Cofán Indian tribe -- have spent three decades battling Texaco (now Chevron since 2001) for contaminating their water, land and air with a sludgy "death zone" the size of Rhode Island. Advocacy docs can sure sound like homework, but in Berlinger's hands,...
But now Berlinger steps out on his own with "Crude," a heartbreaking and compellingly multifaceted epic about the so-called "Amazon Chernobyl" case, in which 30,000 Ecuadorians -- many from the Cofán Indian tribe -- have spent three decades battling Texaco (now Chevron since 2001) for contaminating their water, land and air with a sludgy "death zone" the size of Rhode Island. Advocacy docs can sure sound like homework, but in Berlinger's hands,...
- 9/3/2009
- by Aaron Hillis
- ifc.com
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