Movie: Crude–The Real Price of Oil

November 6-13at the Angelika Theater in Houston. You may already be familiar with the film’s subject matter, the largest environmental lawsuit in global history–what’s been dubbed the “Amazon Chernobyl” case, a class action lawsuit filed 16 years ago by 30,000 Ecuadoreans against Chevron.  The impending $27 billion judgement will no doubt set a precedent for how transnational corporations will be held accountable in the future. Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial environmental lawsuits on the planet. The inside story of the infamous “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life 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.  The plaintiffs allege that the pollution has created a “death zone” in an area the size of the Rhode Island, resulting in increased rates of cancer, leukemia, birth defects, and a multiplicity of other health ailments.  http://angelikafilmcenter.com/ANGELIKA_COMINGSOON.ASP?hID=3854&page=COMING%20SOON