winning over 30 film festival awards wasteland demonstrates an artistic project achieving its goal of using art as a transformative process, as the 'catadores' receive opportunity to step back from and re-examine their lives.

the photographs produced, after being exhibited in galleries were then sold at auction and muniz donated the money received, $250,000, to the garbage pickers.

more information about waste land  is available in portuguese and english on the official website on this page.