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A Recycled Life [Film]

I was just checking out who was nominated for this year’s Academy Awards and came across this film, “A recycled life”, in the Best Documentary Short category.

Synopsis: “At the vast, toxic Guatemala City Garbage Dump, generations of families eke out a living picking through the trash in search of items they can recycle.”

Has anyone seen it?

The Trailer (Quicktime)

From Xeni Jardin’s email exchange with the director, Leslie Iwerks:

The film has been selected as a semi-finalist on the short list for the Academy Awards. We took almost ten trips to the Guatemala City dump and photographed the lives of the people living there, and the changing events that took place over the time we visited, including the fire in 2005. Edward James Olmos narrates the film, and it has won six top film festival awards since the middle part of this year.

Update:
So sad. Recycled Life also tells the story of an NGO that helps the children who live inside the dump.

[Its] founder, 36-year-old Hanley Denning, has been killed in a traffic accident in Guatemala. She was known to many in Guatemala as “La Angel del Basurero,” or “the guardian angel of the dump dwellers.” [ref]

via xeni.net/trek and Guatemala Solidarity Network

From Prensa Libre: El último adiós a protectora de niños

Another short film on Guatemala

Mayan Territory by Victoria Tai

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