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Dogtown redemption / a film by Amir Soltani and Chihiro Wimbush ; directed by Amir Soltani & Chihiro Wimbush ; produced by Amir Soltani.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 031 850
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Refuse collectors--California--Oakland--Biography.
- Refuse collectors.
- Cooperative societies--California--Oakland.
- Cooperative societies.
- Recycling (Waste, etc.)--California--Oakland.
- Recycling (Waste, etc.).
- Refuse and refuse disposal--California--Oakland.
- Refuse and refuse disposal.
- Poor--California--Oakland.
- Poor.
- Ragpickers.
- West Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)--Economic conditions.
- West Oakland (Oakland, Calif.).
- West Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)--Social conditions.
- Ragpickers--California--Oakland.
- Economic history.
- Social conditions.
- California--Oakland.
- California--Oakland--West Oakland.
- Genre:
- Biographical films.
- Biographies.
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Feature films -- United States.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in. stamping
- Edition:
- Widescreen.
- Other Title:
- Dogtown redemption : ...the street's gonna pay me
- Place of Publication:
- [Berkeley, California] : TurningTime LLC, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, all regions; widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio) presentation; 5.1 surround; 2.0 stereo.
- digital optical stereo surround
- widescreen (1.78:1)
- NTSC
- video file all regions
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "DOGTOWN REDEMPTION is the intimate story of recyclers in West Oakland--a journey through a landscape of love and loss, devotion and addiction, prejudice and poverty. A surprising number of Americans make their living off America's vast rivers of trash. They are America's unseen. Dismissed as scavengers and pests, these "pirates of trash" come to life in DOGTOWN REDEMPTION, the story of an underclass of shopping cart recyclers, poor entrepreneurs who defy Darwin every day, cheating death and despair by seeking redemption in trash. Shot over seven years, DOGTOWN REDEMPTION follows the lives, dreams and demons of Jason Witt, the titan of recycling, Landon Goodwin, a former minister, and Hayok Kay, once the drummer of the rock band Polkacide. Through them we venture into Alliance Metals, a recycling center in the frontlines of battles over the boundaries of space, race and class in an American city." --Container
- Participant:
- Featuring Jay Anast, Landon Goodwin, Hayok Kay, Jason Witt.
- Credits:
- Music, Pete Sears.
- Notes:
- "Inspired by Robert O. Self's classic, 'American Babylon : race and the struggle for postwar Oakland'"--Container .
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 2015.
- Mill Valley Film Festival 2015, Audience Favorite Silver Award
- OCLC:
- 956371128
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