CRUDE INDEPENDENCE (2009)
Documentary Feature
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Executive Producer: Jonathan Demme
Executive Producer: Granger Whitelaw
Winner: Best Documentary Feature, Oxford Film Festival 2009
Official Selection: 2009 SXSW Film Festival
2009 Cleveland International Film Festival
2009 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
2009 Cinequest Film Festival
2009 D.C. Independent Film Festival
2009 Kansas City Film Festival
2009 Camden International Film Festival
2009 Connecticut Film Festival
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The heartland is getting a transplant, and its new heart is pumping oil. Director Noah Hutton takes us to the town of Stanley, North Dakota (population 1300), sitting atop the largest oil discovery in the history of the North American continent. Through revealing interviews and breathtaking imagery of the northern plains, Crude Independence is a rumination on the future of small town America—a tale of change at the hands of the global energy market and America’s unyielding thirst for oil. [order online]
