e-wasteland
where do our electronics go at the end of their life?
A FILM BY DAVID FEDELE (20mins/2012)
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Have you ever wondered what happens to your electronics at the end of their life?
Almost 50 million tonnes of e-waste (electronic waste) are generated worldwide every year. A large volume of second-hand and condemned electronic goods arrive in developing countries from the “developed” world, with a significant quantity arriving as e-waste, exported illegally as second hand goods.
Without dialogue or narration, E-WASTELAND presents a visual portrait of unregulated e-waste recycling in Ghana, West Africa, where electronics are not seen for what they once were, but for what they have become.
SYNOPSIS
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AWARDS
FILM FESTIVALS - OFFICIAL SELECTION
– Environmental Film Festival of Accra - Accra, Ghana (June 2012)
– Matsalu International Nature Film Festival - Lihula, Estonia (September 2012)
– Portobello Film Festival - London, United Kingdom (September 2012)
– ânûû-rû âboro Film Festival – Pwêêdi Wiimîâ, New Caledonia (October 2012)
– Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (October 2012)
– Terra Di Tutti - Bologna, Italy (October 2012)
– Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival - Budapest, Hungary (November 2012)
– FICAMS Environmental Film Festival - Punta Arenas, Chile (November 2012)
– Cinema Politica - Montreal, Quebec, Canada (November 2012)
– Wildlife Vaasa International Nature Film Festival - Vaasa, Finland (November 2012)
– Papua New Guinea Human Rights Film Festival - Port Moresby, PNG (November 2012)
– Quotes From the Earth Environmental Film Festival - New Dehli, India (December, 2012)
– FIFE Environmental Film Festival - Paris, France (February 2013)
– Days of Ethnographic Film - Ljubljana, Slovenia (March 2013)
– World Film Festival - Tartu, Estonia (March 2013)
– Docudays International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival - Kiev, Ukraine (March 2013)
– Cinema Planeta - Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico (April 2013)
– Barents Ecology Film Festival - Petrozavodsk, Russia (April 2013)
– Shorts Film Festival - Adelaide, Australia (April 2013)
– Ethnocineca - Ethnographic and Documentary Film Fest - Vienna, Austria (April 2013)
– Social Impact Media Awards - U.S.A. (May 2013)
– Addis International Film Festival - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (May 2013)
– Cinemambiente Environmental Film Festival - Turin, Italy (June 2013)
– Millenium International Documentary Film Festival - Brussels, Belgium (June 2013)
– Cine Droit Libre - Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (June 2013)
– Parnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival - Estonia (July 2013)
– Scinema International Festival of Science Film - Australia (July 2013)
– International Human Rights Film Festival - Buenos Aires, Argentina (August 2013)
– Ecologico International Film Festival - Nardo, Italy (August 2013)
– Ecofest International Festival of Ecology Films - Romania (September 2013)
– Festival De Cine Ambiental Voces - Colombia (September 2013)
– Antenna International Documentary Film Festival - Sydney & Melbourne, Australia (October 2013)
– Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival - Nuremberg, Germany (October 2013)
– STEPS International Human Rights Film Festival - Ukraine (October 2013)
– Sun Child International Environmental Film Festival - Armenia (October 2013)
– Arcadia International Environmental Film Festival - Various (October 2013)
– Cine’Eco - Seia, Serra da Estrela, Portugal (October 2013)
– FICMA Barcelona International Environmental Film Festival - Spain (November 2013)
– Aesthetica Short Film Festival - United Kingdom (November 2013)
– Aperture Asia Pacific International Ethnographic Documentary Fest - Melbourne, Australia (November 2013)
– We the Peoples Film Festival - London, United Kingdom (November 2013)
– Karama Human Rights Film Festival - Amman, Jordan (December 2013)
– The Village Doc Festival - Milan, Italy (December 2013)
– Tinai Eco Film Festival - India (February 2014)
– Film Festival on a Sustainable World - Gothenburg, Sweden (March 2014)
– FREDD Festival - Toulouse, France (April 2014)
– Les Journées du film sur l'Environnement - Aix-en-Provence, France (April 2014)
– Green Up Film Festival - Belgium (April 2014)
– Ecozine Environmental Film Festival - Zaragoza, Spain (May 2014)
– SembrandoCine - Lima, Peru (June 2014)
– Festival of Migrant Film - Ljubljjana, Slovenia (June 2014)
– Human District International Film Festival of Human Rights - Belgrade, Serbia (June 2014)
– SREM Film Festival - Belgrade, Serbia (August 2014)
– Innsbruck Nature Film Festival - Innsbruck, Austria (October 2014)
– Cinema Politica - Berlin, Germany (November 2014)
– Manya Human Rights International Film Festival - Kampala, Uganda (December 2014)
– Karama Gaza Human Rights Film Festival - Gaza, Palestine (May 2015)
– Chiala Africa Festival - Graz, Austria (June 2015)
– Dakar Vert Environmental Film Festival - Dakar, Senegal (June 2015)
– Travelers and Backpack Journalists Festival – Ljubljana, Slovenia (September 2015)
– Kolkata International Wildlife and Environment Film Festival – Kolkata, India (October 2015)
– Afghanistan Human Rights Film Festival – Kabul, Afghanistan (December 2015)
– Planeta Doc - Florianopolis - Brazil (October 2016)
TELEVISION BROADCAST
– Winner “Bronze Ladybug Award” – SREM Film Fest 2014 – Serbia
– Winner “Best Australian Short Documentary” – Antenna Documentary Film Festival 2013 – Australia
– Finalist “Short Film Grant” – Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation – October 2013, U.S.A.
– Finalist “Best Documentary Science, Technology & Environment” – ATOM AWARDS 2013 – Australia
– Winner “Best Editing” – Social Impact Media Awards (SIMA) 2013 – U.S.A.
– Finalist “Best Documentary Short” – Social Impact Media Awards (SIMA) 2013 – U.S.A.
– Winner “Low Budget – Big Impact Award” – Wildlife Vaasa Nature Film Festival 2012 – Finland
– Winner “Special Prize of the Jury” – Matsalu Nature Film Festival 2012 – Estonia
– Channel 31 : Melbourne, Australia. (September, 2013)
– EMTV : Papua New Guinea. (December, 2012)