A few years ago, a documentary fillmmaker from the ABC in Sydney (that’s the Australian public television network) spent a day with me in Boston, talking about oil politics. His film, which he dubbed “Crude” (after kindly discussing it with me), came out in Australia a few years ago, and won a slew of awards. It has some amazing footage in it, the least of which are some clips from that day in Boston with me. (A film crew followed me around at the grocery store while I pretended to shop. Slightly embarassing.)
This Sunday, the film airs on the History Channel here in the US. The New York Sun previewed it and mentioned the appearance of yours truly:
“The investigative journalist Sonia Shah,who wrote the equally sweeping 2004 book “Crude: The Story of Oil,”lends an ever-so-slight analytic edge with trenchant demonstrations of oil’s inescapability: Plastic-wrapped supermarket veggies from distant farms, for example, pack the double whammy of petroleum-based packaging and gas-guzzling truck transport.”
The film CRUDE airs on the History Channel on January 27, 2008 at 8 pm.
