In May 2010, a New York Federal court ordered the release of outtakes from Joe Berlinger's movie Crude after Chevron demonstrated that the raw footage compiled by the filmmaker would be "unimpeachably objective" evidence of any misconduct on the part of plaintiffs' lawyers, expert witnesses or the government of Ecuador. In a publicly released version of Crude, plaintiffs' lawyers and representatives are seen collaborating with an assistant to the court-appointed expert, Richard Cabrera, documenting an improper relationship that had been hidden. Chevron has subsequently discovered in the hundreds of hours of outtakes that there are dozens of instances where the plaintiffs' lawyers are caught engaging in serious misconduct. The following are outtakes, left by Berlinger on the cutting room floor, from the movie Crude.
