Garbage Dreams

Garbage Dreams is a 2009 feature length documentary film produced and directed by Mai Iskander. Filmed over the course of four years, Garbage Dreams follows three teenage boys growing up in Egypts garbage village. Garbage Dreams aired on the PBS program Independent Lens for the occasion of Earth Day 2010 and has been screened in many international film festivals.

Garbage Dreams premiered at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival where it ran in the US Documentary Competition Garbage Dreams had its international premiere in Europe at the twentysecond International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and its Middle Eastern premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival.Garbage Dreams was shortlisted for the 2010 Academy Awards in the category of Best Feature Length Documentary, was nominated for the 2010 Best Documentary by the Directors Guild of America, and has woninternational awards including the Al Gore Reel Current Award and IDA Humanitas Award. ........

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