Crude: The Real Price of Oil

CRUDE, the award-winning new documentary 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, high stakes legal cases on the planet-a young Ecuadorean lawyer Pablo Fajardo, with the help of a Philadelphia law firm, takes on Chevron on behalf of 30,000 indigenous rainforest dwellers in the infamous $27 billion "Amazon Chernobyl" case. In his verité style, Berlinger explores this David vs. Goliath story by gathering together an ever more complex web of issues and cross-relationships, shedding light on the accepted dogma about the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and the dilemma of rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. CRUDE takes nothing for granted and never takes it easy on the audience-it subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking as it examines a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.