Project Detail

Waste Land

Synopsis

An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom.
Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadors, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.

Details

Year
2009
Type of film
Features
Running time
95 mins
Format
35mm, HD
Director
Lucy Walker
Producer
Fernando Meirelles
Editor
Pedro Kos, Karen Harley
Screenwriter
Lucy Walker
Director of Photography
Dudu Miranda
Sound
Patrick O' Sullivan, Gary Alexander, Aloysio Compasso, José Lozeiro
Composer
Moby
Principal cast
Vik Muniz, Tião Carlos dos Santos, Isis Rodrigues Garros, Zumbi Carlos da Silva Baia Lopes, Magna de França Santos, Irmã Laurentina da Silva, Suelem Pereira Dias

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Production Company

Sales Company

Seville International (an E1 Entertainment Company)

455 St-Antoine Street West, Suite 300
H2Z 1J1 Montreal
Canada

E1 Entertainment

175 Bloor Street East, Suite 1400
North Tower
Toronto
ON M4W 3R8
Canada

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