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Interview with Joe Berlinger about CRUDE

Interview with Joe Another fantastic film by my friend Joe. This one is about what happens when the Little People take on Big Oil. Please go out and support his work! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! Go see this movie. He makes fantastic films (Some Kind of Monster, Brothers Keeper, Paradise Lost, Iconoclast) and this one is going to be exceptional! You Tube link to trailer... The website… The CRUDE website has a list of cities and dates for the movie. Joe will be at a lot of the premiers. The actual show times won't be released until closer to the dates. IFC Center New York, NY 09/09 to 09/22 Filmmaker Joe Berlinger in person 09/9, 10, 11 Landmark Nuart Los Angeles, CA 09/18 to 09/24 Filmmaker Joe Berlinger in person 09/18 & 19 Milwaukee Film Festival Milwaukee, WI 09/24 to 10/04 Sidewalk Film Festival Birmingham, AL 09/25 to 09/27 Landmark Lumiere San Francisco, CA 09/25 to 10/01 Filmmaker Joe Berlinger in person 09/25 Landmark Shattuck Berkeley, CA 09/25 to 10/01 Filmmaker Jo

Crude the Movie

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. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking, exploring a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus. The landmark case takes place in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador, pitting 30,000 indigenous and colonial rainforest dwellers against the U.S. oil giant Chevron. The plaintiffs claim

Video's From Copenhagen July 2009

I got prime location for nights two and three of the Metallica shows. I shot three videos. One form night 2 - Damage Inc and two on night two - Blackened and Helpless. The video quality is good. LOL Hey, I was shooting using a digital camera and not a movie camera. LOL So now ^sticks tongue out^ The audio is dodgy. You can hear it but it's not the best quality. Give a look and a listen and lemme know what you think. I'm of the mind the videos came out better than the pictures. Pictures to be uploaded soon. I still don't have photoshop for mac *cough*jordan*cough so the resizing hasn't been done. OI - VEY!!!!!