The 'redeeming hope' that poisoned paradise — Ecuador's oil curse in 40 devastating minutes.
The imagination of history in Ecuador never thought that oil, “its redeeming hope”, discovered in the Lago Agrio No. 1 well, was going to mean the beginning of the worst environmental catastrophe on the planet. Thirty years of operation and exploitation of the Texaco company, forever transformed the rivers and estuaries, the forests and the life of the indigenous communities in the northern Amazon of Ecuador.
Direction
Pocho Álvarez lets the land speak—no sensationalism needed.
Cinematography
Oil-slicked water that looks almost beautiful, then gut-punches you.
Writing
Bitter irony: 'Lago Agrio' means Sour Lake. They knew.
Director
Pocho Álvarez
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