What happens in the world's largest trash city will transform you.
Original title
Waste Land
Released
1/24/2010
Origin country
BR, US, GB
Genre
Documentary
Production companies
O2 Filmes, Oscilloscope, Intelligent Media Productions, Almega Projects
Budget
$1,500,000.00
Revenue
$187,716.00
Runtime
1hr 30min
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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