Sweet Crude
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Director Sandy Cioffi Duration Language English | 9/10 IMDb Genre Documentary Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date June 3, 2009 (2009-06-03) (Seattle International Film Festival)
August 14, 2009 (2009-08-14) (United States) Writer Sandy Cioffi, Jill Friedberg, Leslye Wood Genres Documentary, Political cinema Similar movies Crude Impact (2006), Welcome to Nollywood (2007), Nollywood Babylon (2008), Total Denial (2006), The Overnighters (2014) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sweet Crude is a documentary film by Sandy Cioffi about Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta. The film premiered in April 2009 at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and has since screened at 30 film festivals around the world and has won numerous awards.
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On April 12, 2008, members of the Sweet Crude filmmaking crew were detained by the Nigerian military Joint Task Force while traveling by boat in the Niger Delta. The crew was taken into custody and subsequently handed over to the Nigerian State Security Services. They were held for seven days without being charged and without access to legal counsel. They were released Friday, April 18.
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Awards
Sweet Crude has been nominated at Oaxaca Film Fest.
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Sweet Crude Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
Sweet Crude IMDb