Big Oil in Tiny Cambodia: The Burden of New Wealth @ New Meta House - Cambodian German Cultural Center
#37 Sothearos Blvd. opposite of Buildbright / Phnom Penh centre
Thursday Jul. 1, 19:00
Still clawing its way out of the ruins of its past, Cambodia has come face to face with an extraordinary future: It seems to have struck oil. Our "ScreenDocsW Documentary Film Forum presents this double bill with entries from Cambodia and the USA.
Equity TV's OIL IN THE TONLE SAP is followed by Joe Berlinger's CRUDE: THE REAL PRICE OF OIL (USA, 104mins, 2009). This award-winning film tells the story of the infamous $27 billion "Amazon Chernobyl" case. Can 30,000 indigenous plaintiffs find justice from one of the world's largest oil producers? Who is responsible for the unconscionable dumping of 18 billion gallons of toxic waste in the Ecuadoran Amazon?
