Landfill Harmonic (2015)

Directed by

Brad Allgood, Juliana Penaranda-Loftus, Graham Townsley

Genre

musical film

Country

Paraguay, Brazil, United States, Norway

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A music teacher works with children living near a landfill in Paraguay. They create an orchestra using instruments made from recycled trash.

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What happens

Landfill Harmonic (stylized as landfillharmonic) is a 2015 documentary film directed by Brad Allgood and Graham Townsley. It stars and tells the story of Paraguayan music teacher Favio Chavez and his Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a children's orchestra in Paraguay which performs with materials recycled from a trash landfill near Asunción. According to The Huffington Post, "[t]he film is both an exposé on the harsh conditions of slum life and a commentary on the global threats of consumption and waste". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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