Event Details - Middle East movie screening

This is the 2nd movie in the Middle East movie/ documentary series. Garbage Dreams.

From the press kit:  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 home to 60,000 Zaballeen (or Zabbaleen), Arabic for “garbage people.” Far ahead of any modern “Green” initiatives, the Zaballeen survive by recycling 80% of the garbage they collect.  Face to face with the globalization of their trade, each of the teenage boys is forced to make choices that will impact his future and the survival of his community. Filmed over four years, GARBAGE DREAMS follows three teenage boys – Adham, a bright precocious 17-year-old; Osama, a charming impish 16-year-old; Nabil, a shy artistic 18-year-old – born into the trash trade and growing up in the world’s largest garbage village, a ghetto located on the outskirts of Cairo. It is a world folded onto itself, an impenetrable labyrinth of narrow roadways camouflaged by trash; it is home to 60,000 Zaballeen (or Zabbaleen), Egypt’s “garbage people.”

2010 DIRECTOR’S GUILD OF AMERICA NOMINEE FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY& WINNER OF 24 AWARDS; INCLUDING THE 2009 IDA (INT’L DOC. ASSOCIATION) HUMANITAS AWARD and THE 2009 AL GORE REEL CURRENT AWARD