Film

Notes from Liberia

2015 · 25m · Documentary

This film traces the journey of the late Japanese cinematographer Ryo Murakami to the Firestone Tire and Rubber Plantation in Liberia. Under the cover of night, he trespasses onto the plantation grounds and enters a scarcely seen world, where coercive living conditions and labor practices have changed alarmingly little since the plantation opened in 1926. Journalistic access to the plantation is tightly controlled and monitored by the company, and Ryo’s footage is a rare independent vision of the lives of plantation workers.

• Judd EhrlichDirector · Producer
• Ryo MurakamiDirector
• Chris IversenEditor
• David LiebermanEditor

Release date

March 22, 2015

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

25m

Genres

Documentary