"Sweet Crude" at DocuWeeks

Sweet Crude
2009
USA
Director: Sandy Cioffi
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Review by Nancy Keefe Rhodes

To say Sweet Crude is “about the oil industry in the Niger Delta” leaves out a lot. It is certainly about the half-century-plus history of US oil companies in the Niger Delta – where we get 10% of our oil now and will get 25% in less than another decade – and it is certainly about a long tradition of local resistance to that presence on environmental grounds – by the well-known executed Ken Saro-Wiwa but also by the region’s women. And it’s also about how a filmmaker considers and reconsiders her role as filmmaker versus advocate, how a film can shift and change over several years’ time....

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Nancy Keefe Rhodes covers film, photo and visual arts. She lives in upstate New York and is a member of the Women Film Critics Circle, a sister organization of the WBAI Women's Collective.