TRASH TO SPARE
France produces twice more trash than 40 years ago. 30 million tons of household waste per year. 550 kg of trash per person. 1.5 kg each per day. And it keeps rising. Dumps and incinerators overflow. Handling this trash mountain is the subject of a heated daily debate between citizens, manufacturers and politicians. But we only speak about the elimination problem, a technological problem, whereas the problem is backwards: "How do we stop producing waste?" This film attempts to understand the ins and outs of an increasingly major society problem.
2007, France, 52 min.
Dir.: Cecile Couraud
Music: Thomas Kotlarek, Patrick Guillou
Sound: Thomas Kotlarek, Patrick Guillou, Julien Lafaye
Edit.: Charlotte Cazin, Thomas Kotlarek
Cecile Couraud
A graduate from the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, USA, and from the Communication Institute at the University Lumiere in Lyon, France, Cecile Couraud has been working for over eight years as a film director and editor first in the USA, and then in France, making mostly documentary films. After she got back from the USA in 2005, she worked on her first documentary film - Trash to Spare (2007), which was awarded at the Festival Les Escales Documentaires in La Rochelle (France) and shown at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Filmography
AA Monkey (2004), Hanging Chad (2004), Long Stories (2004), Trash to Spare (2007), Fields' Views (2008).