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.

quase dois irmãos (almost brothers) (2004), directed by lúcia murat, follows the lifelong friendship of two men, miguel (werner schünemann) from a wealthy, white neighborhood and jorge (antónio pompeo), a black favela-dweller who meet growing up in rio de janeiro in the 1950s, as a consequence of their fathers' shared love of samba.