"Crude" screening to benefit Amazon Watch

Amazon Watch Hosts Benefit Screening and Premiere Party for “CRUDE” on September 17
Join Award-winning Filmmaker Joe Berlinger, Film Subjects, and Celebrity Supporters for the L.A. Premiere of a Powerful New Documentary

WHEN:
Thursday, September 17 at 7 pm

WHAT:
Benefit screening and Premiere Party for CRUDE. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Joe Berlinger and Amazon Watch and an after party featuring music, organic appetizers, and hosted bar with eco-friendly cocktails and wine.

WHO:
Joe Berlinger (filmmaker), Atossa Solani (Executive Director Amazon Watch), Benjamin Bratt, Daryl Hannah, Q'orianka Kilcher, Esai Morales, among others

WHERE:
Harmony Gold Theater
7655 W. Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90046

TICKETS: BUY TICKETS online at chevrontoxico.com/crude/la or by email lacrude@amazonwatch.org or call 415-487-9600 ext 356

On September 17, join Amazon Watch for the Los Angeles premiere and benefit screening of CRUDE, an inspiring new film by award-winning filmmaker, Joe Berlinger. The event will be held at the Harmony Gold Theater and is a fundraiser for Amazon Watch’s Clean Up Ecuador Campaign.

CRUDE chronicles the epic battle to hold oil giant Chevron (formerly Texaco) accountable for its systematic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon – an environmental tragedy experts call "the Rainforest Chernobyl." The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Joe Berlinger and Amazon Watch and an after party featuring music, organic appetizers, and hosted bar with eco-friendly cocktails and wine. Crude will also be showing at the Landmark Nuart Theater in West Los Angeles from September 18-24.

Premiere after party sponsors include VeeV Acai Spirit, Sambazon, Casa Barranca Wine, Farm Artisan Foods, Ranchos Palos Verdes Travel, Frey Vineyards and Municipal Winemakers.

For background, visit www.amazonwatch.org or the official Crude website www.crudethemovie.com.

Founded in 1996, Amazon Watch is a non-profit environmental and human rights organization working to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin.