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Title: RED OIL

Reference number: 8108

Date: 2008

Director: d. Lucinda Broadbent

Sponsor: Scottish Screen, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Mitteldeutsche Medienforderung

Producer: Aimara Reques, Heino Deckhert

Production company: A Media Co-Op ma.ja.de co-production in association with Channel 4, al-Jezeera English, NRK, SBS TV Australia and YLE

Sound: sound

Original format: DVCam

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 58.12 mins

Description: Oil, greed, power, betrayal, passion and revolution - "it's a total soap opera" in Hugo Chavez' oil corporation in Venezuela. So says insider Marienella and she should know: before she worked in oil she used to write soaps... A high octane documentary with crude oil, larger-than-life characters, and true-life cliffhangers.

Original shooting format DVCam.

Credits: camera and ed. Steve Sklair
sd. rec. Frank Roja
online ed. Felix Drawe
dubbing mixer Julian Mueller Scherz
graphics Paul Cameron
technical consultant Inigo Garrido
m. La Redonda
narr. Tom Strauss
narr. w. Cole Parker
sc. consultant Chris Dolan, Reinhild Feldhaus
subtitles Mike Gonzalez
p. man. Lorna Ferguson, Sebastian Gassner, Tina Boerner
archive PDVSA, Globovision, Venevision, Pablo de la Barra Producciones
lawyer Yvonne Dunn
business affairs for Scottish Screen Linda McClure
exec. p. Sandra Whipham, Robbie Allen
p. Aimara Reques, Heino Deckhert

Thanks to PDVSA, CBA-DFID Broadcast Media Scheme, Chris Dolan, Isnardo Yanes, Cotrain Video, Citizens Energy, Isabel Tulloch, Louise Scott

Developed with the support of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union Supported by National Lottery through Scottish Screen, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Mitteldeutsche Medienforderung

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