Redemption (2012 film)
Redemption is an American documentary short film by directors Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill from 2012. The film depicts the situation of Canners, the people in the American metropolis of New York City that are dependent by collecting of returnable bottles and cans to provide for their livelihood. The film was nominated for an Oscar in the category "Best Short Documentary ".
Content
The documentary presents different " Canner ", ie men and women who gather on the streets of New York City returnable bottles and cans, and expect them to have their say. Some of the main actors
- Jamie, a 54 - year-old former factory worker;
- Lilly, a 55 - year-old former restaurant employees;
- Mr. John, a 58 -year-old Japanese man who worked in the World Trade Center;
- Nuve, a 36 -year-old Ecuadorian and mother of four;
- Susan, a 64 -year-old former New York Sales Manager at IBM;
- Walter, a 66 -year-old homeless veteran and former bouncer.
Walter explains, among other things, how the number of bottles collectors has risen for some time, and describes the efforts that take the Canner at: To benefit from this life, they must work hard to collect sometimes up to 20 hours a day. For collectors, the most credited in bottles and cans. The film is in addition to the competition, in which the collector to each other, and the friendly atmosphere within the community of collectors before, which differ to a lot of contact and support in many cases also with each other. The Canner represent their life situations, such as Lilly, a bottle collector, who shares with six other small rooms in Chinatown and it thus in a better position than many homeless collector. The question of the cause of the constantly growing number of Cannern is also provided, and is found frequently in the loss of jobs. The lack of jobs also makes it nearly impossible for most of the canner, then to go back in paid work, and this leaves the pledge collecting for them.
Production
The idea for the documentary was by Sheila Nevins, head of the documentary department at the HBO television. After she had noticed a bottle collectors, they raised the question of the personal stories and backgrounds of these people. Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill began with the work on the documentation, which lasted about two and a half years. In the first few months they first tried without a camera, to make contacts in the community of the bottle and can collector in order to create a basis of trust. So they were increasingly informed about the processes and the way people interact, what helped them to talk to their documentation with the people. In early 2010 they started filming, and finally they had footage to produce a full-length documentary can. When editing the footage, the two documentary filmmakers, however, decided to publish Redemption as a short film, which at the end had a length of 35 minutes. Film music contributed Jonathan Zalben at.
The film was first aired on April 5, 2013 premiered at the Ashland Independent Film Festival and was on 14 October 2013, the American television channel HBO. In addition Redemption of ShortsHD and Magnolia Pictures along with the 14 other Oscar-nominated short films from the 2013 anthology has been implicated as the movies.
Awards and nominations
- Oscars 2013: Nomination in the category "Best Short Documentary "