The subtitle of the newly released documentary film Big Men is โeveryone wants to be bigโ and to say the film covers a โbigโ topic is to put itย mildly.
Executive produced by Brad Pitt and directed by Rachel Boynton, the film cuts to the heart of how the oil and gas industry works and pushes film-watchers to think about why that’s the case. Ghana’s burgeoning offshore fields โ in particular, the Jubilee Field discovered in 2007 by Kosmos Energy โ serve as the film’s caseย study.
Image Credit: Ghana Oilย Watch
Boynton worked on the film for more than half a decade, beginning the project in 2006 and completing it in 2013. During that time, the Canadian tar sands exploded, as did the U.S. hydraulic fracturing (โfrackingโ) boom โ meanwhile, halfway around the world, Ghana was having an offshore oil boom of itsย own.
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