Sundance Cinemas Houston Calendar Series: Big Men EXTENDED

Sundance Cinemas continues with their Sundance Cinemas Houston Calendar Series. The programming team culls their choices from national and international film festivals for the best independent movies available in distribution. Every eight weeks a new calendar will be unveiled with new critically acclaimed and hard to see films.

June 6 – June 12 June 19
"BIG MEN"
RT: 99 mins

The film's central story follows a small group of American explorers at Dallas-based oil company Kosmos Energy.

Between 2007 and 2011, with unprecedented, independent access, Big Men's two-person crew filmed inside the oil company as Kosmos and its partners discovered and developed the first commercial oil field in Ghana's history. Simultaneously the crew filmed in the swamps of Nigeria's Niger Delta, following the exploits of a militant gang to reveal another side of the economy of oil: people trying to profit in any way possible, because they've given up on waiting for the money to trickle down.

So what happens when a group of hungry people discover a massive and exquisitely rare pot of gold in one of the poorest places on earth?