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An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.

What happens in the world's largest trash city will transform you.

Genres: Documentary

Starring: Vik Muniz

Released: January 24, 2010

Runtime: 90.0

Popularity Rating: 2.628

Almega Projects, O2 Filmes

Brazil, United Kingdom

Himself Vik Muniz

Camera — Director of Photography: Aaron Phillips
Camera — Director of Photography: Dudu Miranda
Camera — Director of Photography: Ernesto Herrmann
Camera — Director of Photography: Heloisa Passos
Crew — Post Production Supervisor: Tiago Arakilian
Directing — Assistant Director: Karen Harley
Directing — Director: Joao Jardim
Directing — Director: Lucy Walker
Editing — Assistant Editor: Fabian Remy
Editing — Assistant Editor: Samy Waitzberg
Editing — Editor: Pedro Kos
Production — Co-Producer: Peter Martin
Production — Executive Producer: Andrea Barata Ribeiro
Production — Executive Producer: Fernando Meirelles
Production — Producer: Angus Aynsley
Production — Producer: Hank Levine
Production — Unit Production Manager: Mahyad Tousi
Sound — Music: Moby
Sound — Sound mixer: Jose Moreau Louzeiro
Sound — Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Samuel Lehmer
Writing — Screenplay: Lucy Walker