LandFill Harmonic
Closign Film and Green Film Network Award 2016 Winner
Sunday, September 18 – 6:00pm
FUNGLODE, Santo Domingo
Films Sustainable Practices and Attitudes Retrospective
Screening:
- Sunday, September 18 - 6:00 PM
FUNGLODE, Santo Domingo
Landfill Harmonic follows the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a Paraguayan musical group that plays instruments made entirely out of garbage. When their story goes viral, the orchestra is catapulted into the global spotlight.
Director: Brad Allgood, Graham Townsley
Country: USA/Paraguay
Year: 2015
Duration: 84 min
Language: Spanish
Brad Allgood
Brad Allgood is an award-winning filmmaker with a background in international development and public health. His films have taken him into the heart of the Nicaraguan rainforest and remote Caribbean islands, as well as the sparse Kalahari Desert and dense African jungles. Before transitioning to filmmaking, Brad served for 3 ½ years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nicaragua. His passion and focus is in Latin America.
Graham Townsley
Graham Townsley is an Emmy-nominated director of high-end documentaries for PBS, National Geographic and the Discovery channel. He trained as an anthropologist and has a Ph.D from Cambridge University. He went on to work in ethnographic films for the BBC such as The Shaman and his Apprenticebased on his own fieldwork with a tribe of the Peruvian Amazon and From the Heart of the World, a film about the Kogi Indians of the Sierra Nevada of Colombia.
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