Landfill (Aterro) | a documentary by Marcelo Reis, HD, 72 min.
Year of release: 2011
Year of DVD release: 2012
Synopsis: Seven women, recycling pioneers of the sixties, talk about the seemingly unavoidable
fate of waste.
Long synopsis: Belo Horizonte is a planned city, built and inaugurated under the progressist
precepts of the late XIX century. In about half a century, its waste output surpassed the limits of
the waste management system and all garbage began being disposed of outdoors, less than 5Km
from the city center. Aterro is a film about seven women who pioneered waste salvaging in Brazil.
Facing the current and controversial landfilling system, they speak about the seemingly
unavoidable fate of waste.
About the film: The documentary Landfill was born from the perception of a paradox regarding
waste. While most people want to get rid of it, some ladies I met, recycling pioneers, now miss
other people’s waste lying next to their houses. Much has happened between the time when I met
them and the time when I made this film, in the media, with all it’s fallacious discourse about
sustainability, and in my personal relationship with garbage, when I became a homemaker. This
film belongs to these seven women, who are truly experts on the subject.
About the director: Marcelo Reis has been an audiovisual producer since he was 16. For a long
time, he has been a radio broadcaster, musician, independent journalist and educationist. As a
documentarian, he released several short films and a featured film, displaying his work on 22
different festivals in 5 different countries. He has been awarded at the Festival Internacional de
Curtas Metragens de Belo Horizonte (BRA), at Third World Independent Film Festival (USA), has
received a Best Feature Film award at Festiver (COL), a Luis Espinal Award at Mostra Cine Trabalho
(BRA) and also an Honorable Mention at Festival Imagens da Cultura Popular Urbana (BRA). In
2010, he was one of four Brazilians selected for the Talent Campus da Universidad del Cine in
Buenos Aires. The topic of that year was “Documentary Cinema” and the competitors were
producers up to age 29 from all over Latin America.
Most important works: Aterro (Landfill) – documentary (2011) | EZ Money - videoclip (2009) |
Quando a parede cai (when the wall falls) – documentary (2009) | Cultura na ausência do Tempo
(culture in the absence of time) – documentary (2008) | ESPAÇO RESERVADO P/ PICHADORES
(RESERVED FOR GRAFFITTI) – documentary (2007) | Zé Barriga (Joe Belly) – documentary (2007) |
Você tem identidade? (Do you have identity?) – documentary (2007)
Awards:
Green Award of the Third World Independent Film Festival 2011, California, USA.
Luis Espinal Award on 7a Mostra Cine Trabalho 2012, São Paulo, BRAZIL.
Best Feature Film on Festiver 2012, Barriacha, COLÔMBIA.
Credits:
Director: Marcelo Reis
Executive Producer: Marcelo Reis
Production: Patrícia Vieira e Marcelo Reis
Research: Patrícia Vieira e Marcelo Reis
Photography: Guilherme Reis
Production Assistant: Nilo Augusto
Editor: Marcelo Reis
Translation and Subtitles: (EN, ES): Andrés Schaffer
Producer: Bagulium Loquo Est
Co-Producer: Postura Digital
Support: Contorno Áudio e Vídeo, Lokamig Rent a Car, Quituts, San Ro, Voël.
Sponsor: Lei Municipal de Incentivo à Cultura de Belo Horizonte.
Links | Downloads:
Site: www.aterrodoc.com
Trailer (with subs): www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA_5lEk0KDs
Teasers (without subs): 1- http://vimeo.com/40236085 2- https://vimeo.com/40234513
Photos: http://www.aterrodoc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/aterro_press_DVD.zip
Poster: http://www.aterrodoc.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Aterro_Landfill_cartaz.pdf
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/aterrodoc
Twitter: http://twitter.com/baguliumloquo
Site Producer: www.baguliumloquoest.com
Site Co-Producer: www.posturadigital.com.br
Contact:
Aterro Staff | [email protected] || [email protected]
For Rádio and TV:
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The name of the producer Bagulium Loquo Est has the pronunciation “Latinized”.PRONOUNCED:
bagu-LIUM(like a “infinitum”) loquo(lôquo) est(ést) .
Sale on DVD (with English & Spanish subtitles): http://www.aterrodoc.com/dvd