Garbage Dreams
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Produced by
Mai Iskander Mai Iskander |
Genre
Documentary |
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Filmmaker Notes
More About Garbage Dreams from Director Mai Iskander“If there weren’t any garbage collectors, Cairo wouldn’t be clean,” says a teenager named Adham at the opening of Garbage Dreams. He is one of 60,000 Zaballeen; entrepreneurial garbage collectors who collect and recycle one-third of Cairo’s waste — over 3,000 tons a day. But the Zaballeen finds themselves at a crossroads when the city they keep clean hire foreign multinational disposal companies to collect Cairo’s garbage. Garbage Dreams follows the Zaballeen’s novel efforts to evolve their trade as Egypt modernizes their garbage disposal system and accompanies them on their journey into the modern world where change is inevitable and necessary.FILMMAKER BIO
Mai Iskander, Director & ProducerMai Iskander is a freelance director and cinematographer based in New York City. She has directed numerous Public Service Announcements and industrials for non-profits such as the Partnership for the Homeless and The Brain Tumor Foundation. As a cinematographer, she has worked on dramas, commercials, industrials, and documentaries. She recently finished filming the feature-length documentary Greetings from Asbury Park, directed by Christina Eliopoulus and Profiles of a Peacemaker, which she filmed alongside Albert Maysles. Mai joined the International Cinematographers Guild in 1996 and worked as a camera assistant on over a hundred commercials and more than a dozen features, including Men in Black and As Good as it Gets. She graduated with honors from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts in 1996. She has a BFA in both Film Production and Economics.Related Films |
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