Waste Land (film)

Waste Land
Waste Land
	Promotional film poster
Directed by	Lucy Walker; João Jardim (co-director); Karen Harley (co-director)
Produced by	Angus Aynsley; Hank Levine
Starring	Vik Muniz
Cinematography	Dudu Miranda; Heloísa Passos (co-DoP); Aaron Phillips (co-DoP); Ernesto Herrmann (co-DoP)
Edited by	Pedro Kos
Music by	Moby
Production; companies	Almega Projects; O2 Filmes; Intelligent Media
Distributed by	Midas Filmes
Release date	24 January 2010 (Sundance);
Running time	99 minutes
Countries	Brazil; United Kingdom
Languages	Portuguese; English

Waste Land (

ACAMJG

(Associação dos Catadores do Aterro Metropolitano de Jardim Gramacho, or Association of Pickers of the Metropolitan Landfill of Jardim Gramacho), which is a co-operative founded and led by Sebastião "Tião" Carlos Dos Santos, one of the catadores involved in the art project; the prize money from the awards won by the film was also donated to the organization.

The film premiered at the

Best Documentary Feature at the 83rd Academy Awards

.

Reception

Critical response to the film was almost unanimously positive. On the

weighted average score of 78 out of 100 based on reviews from 20 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[5]

This film was invited to screen at festivals and special events around the world, and received over 50 awards.[6] As the only documentary from 2010 to receive a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it won the Golden Tomato Award as the best-reviewed documentary of the year.^[7]

International titles

The Portuguese-language title of the film is Lixo Extraordinário ("Extraordinary Garbage"), which is a pun referring to the labels on Brazilian sanitation trucks containing special waste.^[8]
The Spanish-language title is El Reino de la Basura ("The Kingdom of Garbage").^[9]
The film's French distributors, Eurozoom, chose to keep the English title of Waste Land, while adding the subtitle "de la Poubelle au Musée" ("From the Trash to the Museum").^[10]