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Directed by Vasco Lucas Nunes Ondi Timoner Produced by Vasco Lucas Nunes Ondi Timoner Genre Runtime: 6 min Release Date: April 2008 Filmmaker's Website Send to Friends |
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Plot Outline
Poet Miguel Diaz transforms poverty into cultivation in the middle of a Los Angeles street.
Awards
Winner of the Sustainability Award
Filmmaker Notes
More About Recycle from Directors and Producers Vasco Lucas Nunes and Ondi Timoner
Recycle is a portrait of a day in the life of Miguel Diaz in the hilly Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park. Miguel is a homeless man who is a native of Baja California and departed a few years back when he broke up with his wife, leaving his daughter behind, the queen of his heart. He currently makes a living by recycling materials in the Echo Park area. During the film he was living inside a van, but currently it is not known where he spends his nights.
Along with his job as a recyclist he is also a gardner who made a community garden for his fellow homeless friends who come in the early afternoon to swap their shopping carts’ worth of recyclable materials for a few bucks. He is recovering from substance abuse through his philosophy of recycling life. Diaz uses all the thrown away items that he collects to make a community garden in the median of his street, while offering his insights on survival and nature.
Vasco Lucas Nunes and Ondi Timoner co-directed the film. Nunes rendered images on 35 mm while Timoner recorded the voice and singing of Miguel Diaz for the six-minute documentary during three days of shooting.
FILMMAKER BIOS
Vasco Lucas Nunes, Director/Producer
Vasco Lucas Nunes was born in Lisbon, Portugal, and began working in the film and television industry in the early 90s. He has worked extensively in documentaries and commercials in four continents while living in Europe and the US. His previous experience in television and film includes producing and editing for CNN while finishing his film bachelors degree, producing and shooting for the international promo and documentary house 7ate9 Creative, including the feature documentary Jari shot in the Brazilian Amazon.
Since arriving in Los Angeles, he finished a masters in cinematography at the American Film Institute, and started to focus on music and narrative film. His fiction cinematography work includes several shorts, most recently Bamboo by Todd Levin, starring Ted Danson, Robert Wagner, and Zoey Deschannel. His documentary work includes three other feature docs. He won the cinematography prize at the 2004 International Cinematographer’s Guild Showcase.
His work with Ondi Timoner on music videos and feature documentaries for artists like The Vines, Dave Koz, David Lee Roth, Vanessa Carlton, and The Dandy Warhols, was complemented with his involvement as a cinematographer and co-producer on DIG! Winner of the Grand Jury Prize of the Sundance Film Festival 2004, and now part of the permanent collection of the MoMA. He is currently working on a myriad of fiction, music and documentary projects, including Ondi Timoner’s The Mother of Invention: the History of Jamaican Music.
Ondi Timoner, Director/Producer
Ondi Timoner won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for DIG!. The Grammy-nominated director/producer, Ondi Timoner graduated Yale University cum laude and founded INTERLOPER in 1994. She filmed the documentaries Voices From Inside Time about incarcerated women in Connecticut, winner of the Yale Film Prize - and later, The Nature of the Beast, about one woman’s heroic journey through the criminal justice system, winner of the Bettina Russel Grand Jury Prize in Canada and The National Society for Visual Anthropology Commendation, which aired on PBS. She later went on to shoot Dam Nation, shot in the oldest living civilization of sub-saharan Africa about a WTO dam.
She has created and directed for broadcast television the original series Sound Affects for VH1, the highest-rated pilot in VH1’s history, and ABC’s highly successful Switched. Ondi Timoner’s passion for the underdog story is only equaled by her passion for music. Through Interloper she has made music videos and music documentaries for The Dandy Warhols, Dave Koz, Vanessa Carlton, The Vines, Paul Westerberg and Lucinda Williams, among others, while simultaneously financing, producing, directing, and editing DIG! She is currently slated to direct several feature length fiction and non-fiction projects.