Scenes Cut From Film Find New Role in Court – NYTimes.com

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Scenes Cut From Film Find New Role in Court

Chevron’s lawyers are using outtakes from a documentary film to fight an environmental lawsuit in Ecuador.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/us/03crude.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

The candid footage has come to light because Chevron’s lawyers persuaded a federal judge in New York to force a filmmaker who chronicled the legal fight, Joe Berlinger, to turn over more than 500 hours of outtakes from his film, “Crude.”