[Scpg] TONIGHT /WASTELAND Film Screening Wednesday, July 20 7:00 pm Pollock Theater, UCSB Free

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

*WASTE LAND Film Screening

Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNlwh8vT2NU
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Wednesday, July 20 7:00 pm
Pollock Theater, UCSB
Free Film Screening and Open to the Public

http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/events/all
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Oscar-nominated film /WASTE LAND/ follows artist Vik Muniz as he 
journeys from his home in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's 
largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio 
de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of 
/"catadores"/---self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz's 
collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate 
photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the 
dignity and despair of the /catadores/ as they begin to re-imagine their 
lives. Director Lucy Walker (DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND, BLINDSIGHT and 
COUNTDOWN TO ZERO) and co-directors João Jardim and Karen Harley have 
great access to the entire process and, in the end, offer stirring 
evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human 
spirit.

Film screening followed by a *Q&A with /WASTE LAND/ Director* Lucy 
Walker and a *Brazilian-themed reception* with local environmental 
artists Laura Lynch and Holly MacKay creating art from marine debris and 
recycled materials.

*Awarded Best Documentary* at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin 
Film Festival.

Sponsored by the Carsey-Wolf Center's Environmental Media Initiative, 
UCSB Summer Sessions, and Art from Scrap.

*Sign-up* at PollockTheater at gmail.com <mailto:PollockTheater at gmail.com> 
or 805-893-2186 (standby tickets will be available at the door)

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