The Burning Field
Film Info
Film Year: 2019
Film Duration: 71 min
Country: United States
Language: English
Director
Justin Weinrich
Film Category
Best Feature Documentary
Synopsis
In this immersive portrait of life in an environmental wasteland, four young Ghanaians struggle to navigate work and relationships over a single day in Agbogbloshie, the largest e-waste dump on earth. Told entirely from their unique perspectives and in their own words, verité sequences capture telling moments from lives spent dismantling and burning electronic appliances from around the world, and the steep toll that it takes both on them and on the environment.