Black gold blues
Sandy Cioffi’s Sweet Crude documents the havoc wreaked by the oil industry in the Niger Delta
ANGER FLARING: Sweet Crude
Photo by KENDRA E. THORNBURY
In November of 2005, filmmaker Sandy Cioffi travelled to southern Nigeria to document the opening of a library intended as a friendship gesture in a region scarred by ethnic warfare. What she saw there made her switch her plans entirely and turn her focus to the oily elephant dripping in the corner of the room. The Niger Delta is Africa’s biggest producer of petroleum, a commodity behind most of the country’s wealth, pollution and violence. Her film
Sweet Crude (
sweetcrudemovie. com) is the product of four years of research and interviews that brought Cioffi into close contact with the resistance movement that’s fighting for a say in how the oil companies use their land.
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