TALKING TRASH, 1995

This feature length, environmental documentary (16mm) took 5 years to make. The film examines America's garbage problem, the culture that spawned it, and our efforts to contend with it.  Approaching waste as a cultural issue, the film explores the evolution of the throwaway society, the confrontation with waste, and the green movement as it enters mainstream culture.   An adventure through all walks of life in America, it  leads the viewer to ponder the nature of materialism and the existence of environmental racism in American culture.  

TALKING TRASH  premiered at the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema in 1994, and went on to screen at numerous festivals around the USA and the world.  It won a bronze medal at the New York International Festivals for Best  Environmental Educational Documentary.   It was a finalist in the Best Documentary category at the USA Film Festival in Dallas in 1994.  We won the Most Promising Directors award at the Sinking Creek Film and Video Festival in Nashville.    We won a Cine Golden Eagle award  for outstanding documentary film.  Talking Trash aired in the USA as a national boradcast on PBS in 1995 and then aired in 15 countries around the world.