About Harold Crooks
Born 1953. Harold Crooks is a Canadian journalist, screenwriter and film director.
Harold Crooks is a Canadian-American filmmaker. He began his career as an investigative journalist covering environmental issues in Canada during the 1980s and 90s. His films cover the subjects of political economy and the impact humans have on their environment through technology and capitalism. Most recently he co-directed a documentary with the art writer Judd Tully about the artist David Hammons.
Works Dirty Business: the Inside Story of the New Garbage Agglomerates, J. Lorimer, 1983 Giants of garbage: the Rise of the Global Waste Industry and the Politics of Pollution Control, James Lorimer & Company, 1993
Filmography The Champagne Safari, 1995 The Corporation, 2003 Surviving Progress, 2013 The Price We Pay, 2014 The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art and Times of David Hammons, 2022
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Canadian writer and filmmaker
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Harold Crooks was born in 1953.
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Harold Crooks is a journalist, screenwriter and film director.
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Harold Crooks is Canadian.
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