Press Releases

(San Francisco, CA, February 9, 2011) — Filmed over four years, Garbage Dreams, a film shortlisted for the 2010 Academy Awards, tells the story of Egypt’s most disenfranchised minorities – the Zaballeen, a co-optic Christian community that recycles 80 percent of Cairo’s trash. The film follows two teenage boys born into the trash trade, and provides an…

(San Francisco, CA, January 26, 2011)— Welcome to Shelbyville is a rare, inside look at America at a crossroads. In a small Tennessee town in the heart of the Bible Belt, a community grapples with rapidly changing demographics. Just a stone’s throw away from Pulaski, Tennessee (the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan), Shelbyville’s longtime African American…

(San Francisco, CA, January 21, 2011)— On April 8, 2000, Mark Hogancamp was attacked outside of a bar in Kingston, New York, by five men who nearly beat him to death. Mark suffered brain damage and physical injuries so severe even his own mother didn’t recognize him. After nine days in a coma and 40 days in the hospital, Mark was discharged with little memory of…

(San Francisco, CA, January 21, 2011) — Desert of Forbidden Art is the incredible true story of how one man, Igor Savitsky, saved a treasure trove of art worth millions of dollars by “hiding” it in a museum in the desert in Uzbekistan. A tireless collector of paintings that the Soviet government wanted destroyed, Savitsky traveled thousands of miles…

(San Francisco, CA, January 21, 2011) — Filmed over nearly three years, Lucy Walker’s Waste Land follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his home country of Brazil, and to Jardim Gramacho, the world’s largest garbage dump located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There Muniz photographs an eclectic band of…