The Film Panel Notetaker

Notes from A Crude Awakening Panel
AFI/Discovery Channel Silverdocs
Silver Spring, Maryland
June 21, 2011
Notes by Erin Essenmacher
Filmmaker Joe Berlinger spent three years travelling between the US and Ecuador following a lawsuit between Chevron and a group of 30,000 indigenous and colonial rainforest dwellers that claim the oil giant poisoned their land and ruined their way of life.  The [...]

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CRUDE Screening & Benefit for Joe Berlinger’s Legal Defense Fund
Stranger Than Fiction
June 22, 2010
New York, NY
By Brian Geldin

L to R: Thom Powers, Joe Berlinger, Maura Wogan, Morgan Spurlock and Michael Winship. Not pictured: Ilan Maazel. Photo by Brian Geldin.
As reported in the press recently, Chevron served a subpoena on Joe Berlinger’s documentary CRUDE in [...]

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