IMPACT 2012 Festival: Crude screening + The Story of Stuff Project August 2, 2012

Three years in the making, this 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 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 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 as it examines a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.

The Story of Stuff Project will lead the film screening with a a few of their creative, short movies that explore some of the key features of our relationship with Stuff—including how we can make things better.

Official Website: http://cultureproject.org/current/impact-festival-2012/