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Waste Land (2010)
Directed by Lucy Walker
“What happens in the world's largest trash city will transform you.”
Documentary · 1h 30m
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 catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.
Cast
Vik Muniz
Jô Soares
Crew
- Director
- Lucy Walker
- Screenplay
- Lucy Walker
- Director of Photography
- Dudu Miranda, Heloísa Passos, Aaron Phillips, Ernesto Herrmann
- Editor
- Pedro Kos
- Producer
- Hank Levine, Angus Aynsley
Details
- Release date
- 2010-01-24
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Portuguese
- Countries
- Brazil, United Kingdom
- Production
- O2 Filmes, Almega Projects, Oscilloscope, Intelligent Media Productions, Petrobras
- Budget
- $1,500,000
- Box office
- $187,716