What is a documentary film by Sandy Cioffi about Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, Trembling Before G-d or Sweet Crude ?
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Sweet Crude 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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Trembling Before G-d Trembling Before G-d is an 2001 American documentary film about gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews trying to reconcile their sexuality with their faith. It was directed by Sandi Simcha DuBowski, an American who wanted to compare Orthodox Jewish attitudes to homosexuality with his own upbringing as a gay Conservative Jew.
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Agbami Field Agbami Field is an oil field in Nigeria. Discovered in late 1998, it was the second major deepwater oil field discovered off the Niger Delta, the first being Bonga Field by Shell.
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Drilling and Killing Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship is an audio documentary produced by Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill, mixed and engineered by Dred Scott Keyes. The piece was first aired in 1998 on "Democracy Now!"
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The Delta Force The Delta Force is a 1986 Israeli-American action–thriller starring Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin (in his final film appearance) as leaders of an elite squad of Special Forces troops based on the real life U.S. Army Delta Force unit. It was directed by Menahem Golan and featured Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop, Robert Vaughn, Steve James, Robert Forster, Shelley Winters, George Kennedy, and an uncredited Liam Neeson in an early role. The film was produced in Israel. Two sequels were produced entitled "" and the direct-to-video "". "The Delta Force" was "inspired by" the hijacking of TWA Flight 847.
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David G. Conover David G. Conover is an American documentary film and television director. His production company, Compass Light, based in Camden, Maine, is most widely known for producing "Sunrise Earth" for HD Theater.
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Sweet Inquest on Violence Sweet Inquest on Violence (French: "Douce enquête sur la violence" ) is a 1982 French drama film directed by Gérard Guérin. It was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.
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Sunny Ofehe "Comrade Sunny Ofehe" is a Nigeria-born, Dutch Environmental Rights Activist whose activities focus on the environmental degradation in the oil rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
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Atlanta International Documentary Film Festival The Atlanta International Documentary Film Festival (also called DocuFest Atlanta, Atlanta DocuFest, and DocuFest) is a film festival that screens documentary films in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Paul Mariano's "Also Ran" was named Best Political Documentary at the 2006 festival. Don Wilson's "Mississippi Son: A Filmmaker's Journey Home" was named Best Dramatic Documentary at the 2007 festival. In 2009, Roger Nygard's "The Nature of Existence" was screened at the festival, as was Mike Ramsdell's "The Anatomy of Hate: A Dialogue for Hope", which won the Audience Choice Award that year. LGBT documentary film "It Doesn’t Define Us" was screened at the 2010 festival. "The Cartel", a documentary about state schools in New Jersey, won the festival's Audience Choice Award that year. At the 2012 festival, Christine Anthony's and Owen Masterson's "Grow!" won the Audience Choice Award. "Decadence: Decline of the Western World" was named that year's Best Foreign Documentary.
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Denké-Denké Denké-Denké is a Nigerien 2006 documentary film.
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White Earth (film) White Earth is a 2014 documentary film by J. Christian Jensen about new arrivals in White Earth, North Dakota who have moved there to seek work in the North Dakota oil boom. The film explores life in the oil boom through the eyes of four children and an immigrant mother. "White Earth" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 87th Academy Awards.
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Delta State People's Democratic Party The Delta State People's Democratic Party (also known as Delta PDP) is the state level chapter of the People's Democratic Party in Delta State, Nigeria. It is the current ruling political party in the southern oil-rich state and has produced governors since the advent of the fourth republic in 1999.
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Globtik Tokyo Globtik Tokyo was one of three oil tankers in its class. At the time her keel was laid in 1972 she was the largest supertanker in the world at 378.85 meters (1,242 feet) and 483,684 tonnes (dwt). She held that distinction until 1973 when her sister ship the "Globtik London" was launched. Identical in size the "London" was larger by 276 dead weight tonnes (dwt). Both ships had a hold capacity of 580 million liters (3.65 million US barrels).
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Blood Diamonds Blood Diamonds is a made-for-TV documentary series, originally broadcast on the History Channel, that looks into the trade of diamonds which fund rebellions and wars in many African nations. The program focuses primarily on two nations: Sierra Leone and Angola. Diamonds which are traded for this purpose are known as blood diamonds. As with many History Channel specials, its original airdate coincides with a mainstream period film, in this case, "Blood Diamond" (2006). Producer of the documentary was Bill Brummel.
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God Grew Tired of Us God Grew Tired of Us is a 2006 documentary film about three of the "Lost Boys of Sudan", a group of some 25,000 young men who have fled the wars in Sudan since the 1980s, and their experiences as they move to the United States. The film was written and directed by Christopher Dillon Quinn.
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Untapped Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil (Harcourt, 2007) is a book written by John Ghazvinian about the petroleum industry in Africa. The book was received well by critics, and garnered good reviews from both the "Boston Globe" and "The New York Times". The book is based extensively on interviews, with representatives of multinational oil companies' views being compared and contrasted with those of politicians within Africa as well as the citizens of affected nations.
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Hurricane on the Bayou Hurricane on the Bayou is an American 2006 documentary film that focuses on the wetlands of Louisiana before and after Hurricane Katrina.
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Sweet crude oil Sweet crude oil is a type of petroleum. The New York Mercantile Exchange designates petroleum with less than 0.42% sulfur as "sweet". Petroleum containing higher levels of sulfur is called sour crude oil.
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Oloibiri Oilfield Oloibiri Oilfield is an onshore oilfield located in Oloibiri in Ogbia LGA of Bayelsa State, Nigeria, about 45 mi east of Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta. Oloibiri field is about 13.75 km2 and lies in a swamp within OML 29. Oloibiri Oilfield is named after Oloibiri, a small, remote creek community, where it is located. In Nigeria, oilfields are usually named after the host community where it is located or a local landmark. Sometimes, oilfields are also given names taken from indigenous languages.
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Sweet Disaster Sweet Disaster is a 1986 series of short films, made for Channel 4. It consists of "animated visions of the apocalypse", and includes films such as "Babylon" and "Sweet Disaster". The series was conceived by producer David Hopkins. TheLostContinent explains "Hopkins scripted each of these films aside from the dialogue-free Dreamless Sleep". The films are fairly obscure; Nick Park noted that Babylon "hasn't really seen the light of day for a long time."
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V-Day: Until the Violence Stops V-Day: Until the Violence Stops (also known as World VDAY) is a 2003 documentary film directed by Abby Epstein. It follows events marking 2002 V-Day — a grassroots movement inspired by Eve Ensler's 1996 play "The Vagina Monologues". The film focuses on V-Day activities in the United States, Kenya, Croatia and the Philippines.
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Geneva International Discussions The Geneva International Discussions (GID) are international talks, launched in Geneva, Switzerland, in October 2008, to address the consequences of the 2008 conflict in Georgia. Co-chaired by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the European Union (EU), and the United Nations (UN), the Geneva process brings together representatives of the participants of the conflict—Georgia, Russia, and Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia—as well as the United States.