Garbage Dreams: Raised in the Trash Trade
Garbage Dreams was shortlisted for the 2010 Academy Awards in the category of Best Feature Length Documentary, was nominated for the 2010 Best Documentary by the Director’s Guild of America, and has won 26 international awards including the Al Gore Reel Current Award and IDA Humanitas Award. Since it's world premiere at SXSW, Garbage Dreams has aired on PBS/Independent Lens for the occasion of Earth Day 2010, and has screened in over 100 international film festivals and in over 150 community screenings worldwide. Garbage Dreams continues to inspire people to re-examine the true value of what they throw away by means of The Garbage Dreams Game, an interactive educational video game based on the feature film, which is currently being distributed in 12,000 schools in North America.
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Directed by: Mai Iskander
Granted on: 2008-01-01
Grant: I Believe in You Grant
Filmed over four years, GARBAGE DREAMS follows three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world's largest garbage village. It is the home to 60,000 Zaballeen (also spelt Zaballeen), Egypt's 'garbage people.' When their community is suddenly faced with the globalization of its trade, each of the teenage boys is forced to make choices that will impact his future and the survival of his community.
"Garbage Dreams" follows three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world's largest garbage village, on the outskirts of Cairo. It is the home to 60,000 Zaballeen, Arabic for "garbage people." Far ahead of any modern "Green" initiatives, the Zaballeen survive by recycling 80 percent of the garbage they collect. When their community is suddenly faced with the globalization of its trade, each of the teenage boys is forced to make choices that will impact his future and the survival of his community.
