April 22, 2008 – Part 3
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
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🗓️ 22 April 2008
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Guest: Sandi Cioffi shares her storiesafter being held in Nigeria and offers insight into her new film "Sweet Crude"
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| 0:00.0 | This is TBTL with Loop Burbank on NewsTalk 710 Cairo. |
| 0:09.2 | Back here alive at the Waterfront Village with my friend the zombie Jonathan you're looking |
| 0:14.3 | good Jonathan just got an awesome face paint job what do you think? |
| 0:17.6 | I like totals alright you're great zombie and welcome back to TBTL NewsTalk 710 Cairo |
| 0:27.7 | I'm Luke Burbank, well about a couple weeks ago on April 12th everything seemed more |
| 0:35.6 | or less calm in the Niger Delta, Seattle filmmaker Sandy Ciafi and her crew of three other |
| 0:41.1 | people were working on their project a documentary film called Sweet Crewd when things started |
| 0:47.1 | to go a little south. |
| 0:48.3 | King Fives Don Porter is tracking developments, he's in satellite control Don. |
| 0:52.8 | Gene and Dennis the Seattle crew is in Nigeria shooting on a documentary entitled Sweet |
| 0:57.2 | Crewd it's about crude oil production in the Niger Delta. |
| 1:00.7 | Early Saturday morning they were detained at a military checkpoint and they've been |
| 1:04.1 | the object of intense anxiety back here ever since. |
| 1:07.9 | What followed was I will can only be described really as an international incident with Maria |
| 1:13.6 | Cantwell, Senator from Washington and a lot of other people in high places putting pressure |
| 1:17.8 | on the Nigerian government meanwhile the filmmakers sweating it out in the detention |
| 1:22.6 | facilities over in Africa and people like me who actually know some of the people involved |
| 1:27.7 | kind of breathlessly updating their Seattle Times webpage to try to see what was happening. |
| 1:32.6 | Well the good news is that everybody's home and accounted for and joining us now is Sandy |
| 1:38.0 | Ciafi the director of that film which is called Sweet Crewd she's worked on other projects |
| 1:41.4 | like Crocodile Tears she's a professor at Seattle Central University and she's not dead |
| 1:46.7 | in Nigeria. |
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