Selections from the Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival: CRUDE
Date(s): 10.14.09 | Wed
Time: 4pm to 6pm
Location: Room 312
Sponsor: Leitner Center for International Law and Justice
Speaker: CRUDE
Affiliation: Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival
As a participant in the 2009 Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival, the Leitner Center will screen three of its films, one each in September, October, and November.
The selection for October, CRUDE, follows up on the Brown Bag Lunch discussion held on September 15.
Three years in the making, this riveting new documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother's Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) tells the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion "Amazon Chernobyl" case, CRUDE is a real-life, high-stakes legal drama involving global politics, the environmental movement, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, multinational corporate power, and the fate of disappearing indigenous cultures. Subverting the conventions of advocacy filmmaking, this award-winning film explores a complex situation from all angles, bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.
CRUDE had its world premiere at Sundance and opened in select theaters nationwide on September 9, 2009.
Contact: Katherine Hughes
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