On 6 May, a US federal judge ruled that Chevron could subpoena footage from “Crude”, a documentary about the company’s involvement in the pollution of the Amazonian rainforest in Ecuador. Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled in favour of Chevron’s request to view 600 hours of outtakes from the documentary. Joseph Berlinger, director of the documentary, said turning over footage to the courts would violate journalistic privilege and undermine a lawsuit in Ecuador.
