Crude Power: The Truth About Africa's Oil Millions -- Lloyd Grove, Daily Beast
Rachel Boynton reveals the dramatic story of how she uncovered the truth about African oil corruption.
Sometimes it’s not who you know, it’s who you get to know.
In late 2006, documentary filmmaker Rachel Boynton was trekking through the oil-rich Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria, and gaining zero traction with masked militants who were regularly blowing up pipelines to disrupt the global economy and protest the official corruption and income disparity arising from the exploitation of their nation's precious natural resource.
Getting the militants on camera would be vital to the real-life drama of Big Men, her chronicle of the petroleum-fueled pursuit of wealth and status in Africa, which opens Friday in New York and later on around the country.
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My Comment: If the trailer is any indication .... a definite must see documentary in my book. Kudos to Brad Pitt for being it's executive producer.
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