Film Schedule

• February 17, 2012, 7pm

  Animal Endurance: The Turin Horse

• February 18, 2012, 7pm

  The Politics of Oil: Crude

• February 19, 2012, 2pm

  Global Warming and Endangered Peoples: The Island President

• February 20, 2012, 7pm

  Debts to Nature and Society: Payback

• February 21, 2012 7pm

  Environmental Activism after 9/11: If a Tree Falls

• February 22, 2012, 7pm

  The Importance of the Night Sky: The City Dark

• February 23, 2012, 7pm

  Taking Urban Agriculture on the Road: Truck Farm

• February 24, 2012, 7pm

  Ethnomusicology and Ecology in Africa: OKA!

• February 25, 2012, 7pm

  Aldo Leopold and the Land Ethic: Green Fire

The Politics of Oil: Crude

Saturday, February 18, 2012, 7pm

Credits

Director/Producer/Executive Producer/Cinematographer Joe Berlinger (USA, 105m, 2009)

The film Crude will be introduced by Peter Maass, award-winning author and journalist, whose most recent book is Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil.

Official Website

Crude is about one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet, the $27 billion "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 examines a complicated situation from several angles while bringing a story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.

This program is sponsored in collaboration with the PEL Honors Program.

News & Views

• February 27, 2012

  The 2012 award recipients have been announced, click here to see the winners.

• January 19, 2012

  The 2012 films have been announced, learn more.

• March 1, 2011

  The 2011 award recipients have been announced, click here to see the winners.

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