I've seen the inside of an industry of garbage; spent the last week and a half arranging their marketing portfolio for next year's product line-up. An industry that manufactures something which will be thrown away in a month after purchase. As an industry, it employs thousands of people across the world. Therefore, many people's livelihoods are fastened to the creation of landfills.
After naming the feature-length documentary “Garbage Dreams” by director Mai Iskander the winner of the 2009 REEL Current Award at the Nashville Film Festival (NaFF), Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Academy Award winner and former Vice-President of the United States, presented the award to Iskander on Friday of last week during a private meeting in Nashville.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
