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Cartoneros

Subjects: Anthropology, Business Studies, Global Issues, Globalization, Poverty, South American Studies

Grade Level: SrH-Adult
Producer: DER
Closed Captioned: No

Running Time: 60 mins
Country of Origin:
Study Guide: No

Copyright Date: 2006
Available in French: No

Cartoneros follows the paper recycling process in Buenos Aires from the trash pickers who collect paper informally through middlemen in warehouses, to executives in large corporate mills. The process exploded into a multimillion dollar industry after Argentina's latest economic collapse. The film is both a record of an economic and social crisis and an invitation to audiences to rethink the value of trash.

In Spanish with English sub-titles.

Awards: Best Green / Outdoors Film, Connecticut Film Festival, 2007

Screened at:

Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, China, 2008
Cine Gaia - International Environmental Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2008
Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance + Science (SEEDS), Plainfield, MA, 2008
National Archive, Argentina, 2008
Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival, Seattle, WA, 2008
X International Festival of Cinema of Human Rights, Argentina, 2008
New Directors Film Festival, Havana, Cuba, 2008
Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Evanston, IL, 2008
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Montana, 2008
Roshd International Film Festival, Iran, 2007
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital, Washington DC, 2008