Garbage Dreams
- Posted by: Andrew Price
- on March 24, 2009 at 7:43 pm
The documentary Garbage Dreams profiles Cairo’s Zabballeen community, which has lived amid piles of trash for more than 150 years, serving as the city’s de facto waste management and recycling system. It premiered at South by Southwest this year.
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More about the film from Inhabitat.
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Al Gore presents REEL Current Award to “Garbage Dreams”After naming “Garbage Dreams” by director Mai Iskander the winner of the 2009 REEL Current Award at the Nashville Film Festival (NaFF), Al Gore — Nobel Peace Prize winner, Academy Award winner and former Vice-President of the United States — presented the award to Iskander on Friday of last week during a private meeting in Nashville.”‘Garbage Dreams’ is a moving story of young men searching for a ways to eke out a living for their families and facing tough choices as they try to do the right thing for the planet,” said Gore of the film. “Mai Iskander guides us into a ‘garbage village,’ a place so different from our own, and yet the choices they face there are so hauntingly familiar. Ultimately, ‘Garbage Dreams’ makes a compelling case that modernization does not always equal progress.”To find out where this thought-provoking film is playing or to learn about the film go to http://www.garbagedreams.com