Waste Land
Synopsis
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
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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
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Almega Projects Ltd
6 Newburgh StreetSoho
London
W1F 7RQ
Sales Company
Seville International (an E1 Entertainment Company)
455 St-Antoine Street West, Suite 300H2Z 1J1 Montreal
Canada
E1 Entertainment
175 Bloor Street East, Suite 1400North Tower
Toronto
ON M4W 3R8
Canada
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