Film
Waste Land
2010 · 1h 30m · Documentary
What happens in the world's largest trash city will transform you.
- IMDb
- 7.8
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 100%
- Metacritic
- 78
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Overview
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.
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Cast
Crew
- Lucy WalkerDirector · Screenplay
- Angus AynsleyProducer
- Hank LevineProducer
- Andrea Barata RibeiroExecutive Producer
- Fernando MeirellesExecutive Producer
- Dudu MirandaDirector of Photography
- Heloísa PassosDirector of Photography
- Ernesto HerrmannDirector of Photography
- Aaron PhillipsDirector of Photography
- Pedro KosEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- January 24, 2010
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rated
- 15
- Budget
- $1,500,000
- Revenue
- $187,716
- Genres
- Documentary
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