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Recycled Life (2006)
Was shooting there in 1995, pretty grim place then...
Would be interested to see how things changed in 2006, over ten years later when this movie was made. They also have a pretty huge dump here in Phnom Penh where I now live and work...somehow, these developing nation dumps on the outskirts of town are great places for NGOs and filmmakers to capture the grim pathos of the folks living there, yet not so far away from town that, after shooting, you can head back for a Latte and a nice thick, juicy steak. Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how this doc portrays dump dwellers. So let's see, now I have to write a few more lines to meet the quota? Well, uh, what was the Guatemala dump like back in 1995 when we were shooting there? Lots of glue sniffers, old broken Michel Jackson records. Also many photographers, NGO folks, filmmakers hanging around at times, since the dump is a perfect, "blue chip-" backdrop to portray the lives of the downtrodden, and great for PR purposes for local NGOs who need to raise some bucks. Anyway I cut our footage into a travel doc I did, shot it on Hi8 (these were pre-digital days).