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Between Midnight and the Rooster’s Crow
Nadja Drost, Canada, documentary, 66 min., 2005
 An investigation into environmental contamination and human rights violations in the Ecuadorian Amazon region. Controversy centres around EnCana, an oil company with its head office in Alberta. Ecuadorian farmers, landowners and community activists who oppose the oil development endure forced relocation, intimidation, assault and illegal imprisonment. These actions are carried out by an Ecuadorian military – and the director explores the connection between the military and EnCana’s own security forces. This exposé fearlessly moves further and further into a tense and tragic situation. In a terrible equation which involves a rapidly-globalizing world, money-hungry governments desperate for foreign investment, and oil-hungry multinational oil companies, the people and the environment do not appear to be a consideration. – M.S.L.
Nadja Drost is a first-time filmmaker. She has dedicated the past several years to raising awareness of Canada’s role in oil development in Ecuador. Nadja lives in Ottawa where she works on policy analysis and advocacy of human rights and social justice issues in Latin America.
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