Metallica movie man highlights deforestation

The man behind Metallica's Some Kind of Monster music video has been enlisted by Trudie Styler to direct a film drawing attention to the issue of deforestation.

Joe Berlinger will shoot the movie, entitled Crude, which will see the director and Sting's wife take an eye-opening trip to the rainforests of Ecuador.

Styler said of the journey: "I saw the most appalling human rights violations I've ever witnessed.

"I've seen some pretty grim sights, but nothing could prepare me for the sight of indigenous people with no access to clean water who have been systematically poisoned."

Styler is a long-term campaigner against deforestation and in July 2007 spoke out against the suffering of rainforest communities in Equador.

Ahead of the Live Earth concerts, the eco-warrior complained that billions of gallons of toxic waste had been needlessly dumped in the nation's forests rendering them uninhabitable.

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