A FILM BY DAVID FEDELE  (20mins) 2012

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e-wasteland

Where do our electronics go at the end of their life?

SYNOPSIS

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.

AWARDS

1. -Winner “BRONZE LADYBUG AWARD” - Srem Film Fest 2014 - Serbia
   

2. -Winner “BEST AUSTRALIAN SHORT DOCUMENTARY” - Antenna Documentary Film Fest 2013 - Australia
   

3. -Finalist “SHORT FILM GRANT” - Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation - October 2013, U.S.A.
   

- Finalist “BEST FILM SCIENCE, TECH. & ENVIRONMENT” - Atom Awards - November 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” - Wildlife Vaasa International Nature Film Festival 2012 - Finland

- Winner “SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE JURY” - Matsalu Nature Film Festival 2012 - Estonia

FILM FESTIVALS - OFFICIAL SELECTION                          

- Environmental Film Festival of Accra - Accra, Ghana (June 2012)

- Matsalu International Nature Film Festival - Lihula, Estonia (September 2012)

1. -Portobello Film Festival - London, United Kingdom (September 2012)
   

2. -ânûû-rû âboro Film Festival – Pwêêdi Wiimîâ, New Caledonia (October 2012)
   

3. -Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (October 2012)   
   

4. -Terra Di Tutti - Bologna, Italy (October 2012)
   

5. -Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival - Budapest, Hungary (November 2012)
   

6. -FICAMS Environmental Film Festival - Punta Arenas, Chile (November 2012)
   

7. -Cinema Politica - Montreal, Quebec, Canada (November 2012)
   

8. -Wildlife Vaasa International Nature Film Festival - Vaasa, Finland (November 2012)
   

9. -Papua New Guinea Human Rights Film Festival - Port Moresby, PNG (November 2012)
   

10. -Quotes From the Earth Environmental Film Festival - New Dehli, India (December, 2012)
    

11. -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)

1. -Cinema Planeta - Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico (April 2013)
   

2. -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)

1. -Social Impact Media Awards - U.S.A. (May 2013)
   

2. -Addis International Film Festival - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (May 2013)
   

3. -Cinemambiente Environmental Film Festival - Turin, Italy (June 2013)
   

4. -Millenium International Documentary Film Festival - Brussels, Belgium (June 2013)
   

5. -Cine Droit Libre - Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (June 2013)
   

6. -Parnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival - Estonia (July 2013)
   

7. -Scinema International Festival of Science Film - Australia (July 2013)
   

8. -International Human Rights Film Festival - Buenos Aires, Argentina (August 2013)
   

9. -Ecologico International Film Festival - Nardo, Italy (August 2013)
   

10. -Ecofest International Festival of Ecology Films - Romania (September 2013)
    

11. -Festival De Cine Ambiental Voces - Colombia (September 2013)
    

12. -Antenna International Documentary Film Festival - Sydney & Melbourne, Australia (October 2013)
    

13. -Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival - Nuremberg, Germany (October 2013)
    

14. -STEPS International Human Rights Film Festival - Ukraine (October 2013)
    

15. -Sun Child International Environmental Film Festival - Armenia (October 2013)
    

16. -Arcadia International Environmental Film Festival - Various (October 2013)
    

17. -Cine’Eco - Seia, Serra da Estrela, Portugal (October 2013)
    

18. -FICMA Barcelona International Environmental Film Festival - Spain (November 2013)
    

19. -Aesthetica Short Film Festival - United Kingdom (November 2013)
    

20. -Aperture Asia Pacific International Ethnographic Documentary Fest - Melbourne, Australia (November 2013)
    

21. -We the Peoples Film Festival - London, United Kingdom (November 2013)
    

22. -Karama Human Rights Film Festival - Amman, Jordan (December 2013)
    

23. -The Village Doc Festival - Milan, Italy (December 2013)
    

24. -Tinai Eco Film Festival - India (February 2014)
    

25. -Film Festival on a Sustainable World - Gothenburg, Sweden (March 2014)
    

26. -FREDD Festival - Toulouse, France (April 2014)
    

27. -Les Journées du film sur l'Environnement - Aix-en-Provence, France (April 2014)
    

28. -Green Up Film Festival - Belgium (April 2014)
    

29. -Ecozine Environmental Film Festival - Zaragoza, Spain (May 2014)
    

30. -SembrandoCine - Lima, Peru (June 2014)
    

31. -Festival of Migrant Film - Ljubljjana, Slovenia (June 2014)
    

32. -Human District International Film Festival of Human Rights - Belgrade, Serbia (June 2014)
    

33. -SREM Film Festival - Belgrade, Serbia (August 2014)
    

34. -Innsbruck Nature Film Festival - Innsbruck, Austria (October 2014)
    

35. -Cinema Politica - Berlin, Germany (November 2014)
    

36. -Manya Human Rights International Film Festival - Kampala, Uganda (December 2014)
    

37. -Karama Gaza Human Rights Film Festival - Gaza, Palestine (May 2015)
    

38. -Chiala Africa Festival - Graz, Austria (June 2015)
    

39. -Dakar Vert Environmental Film Festival - Dakar, Senegal (June 2015)
    

40. -Travelers and Backpack Journalists Festival – Ljubljana, Slovenia (September 2015)
    

41. -Kolkata International Wildlife and Environment Film Festival – Kolkata, India (October 2015)
    

42. -Afghanistan Human Rights Film Festival – Kabul, Afghanistan (December 2015)
    

43. -Planeta Doc - Florianopolis - Brazil (October 2016)
    

TELEVISION BROADCAST

Australian Television Broadcast (Channel 31) - Melbourne, AUSTRALIA (September 2013)

OTHER SCREENINGS

1. -European Union Network for the Implementation and enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL)
   Liverpool, United Kingdom (May 2012)
   

2. -"Eco Film and Forum on Sustainability" as part of “IGEM 2012” (International Greentech and Eco
   

   Products Exhibition and Conference Malaysia) - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (October 2012)

1. -Broadcast, Film and Music Africa (AITEC Africa) - Nairobi, Kenya (June 2013)
   

2. -Ludwig Museum Exhibition - Budapest, Hungary (May-August 2013)
   

3. -Museum of Modern Art of Medellin - Medellin, Colombia (2013)

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STATEMENT BY E-WASTELAND FILMMMAKER - DAVID FEDELE

I have decided to make E-WASTELAND freely available to watch online, to ensure that as many people as possible get the opportunity to watch and share the film.

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