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While an average American household throws out over thousands of dollars of expired food every year, there are people in other parts of the world that make their living sifting through garbage at the 40-acre Guatemala city Dump. In this garbage dump Vultures compete with human beings for scraps, toddlers nap on garbage bags, and cats, dogs, and children are cast out as easily as broken toys. The dump in Guatemala City is a giant crater where thousands, including children, make a living by recycling garbage and foraging for food. Whole families have subsisted on the dump, generation after generation, for the last 60 years. In this short but very profound and telling documentary, director Iwerks descends in to the pit, where filthy children raced up to the garbage trucks and scoured the refuse, plucking toys, chickens and chairs from the mounds. Kids have disappeared without a trace, apparently dissolving in the toxic gases. This short film also reminds us the sad reality of life and......

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