MARCH 26, 2012
I'm very happy to announce SPOILS has been selected to play at the 2012 Independent Film Festival of Boston! This is a huge honor. We had a great time screening THE DENTIST last year, and can't wait to get back. Here are the screening times SHORTS 2: Documentary
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An aging brooklyn artist, his young assistant, and blind friend arrive by rusted retro car; a Puerto Rican woman and her teenage grandson arrive on foot, lead by a rattling grocery cart; a hyperactive twenty-something and his stoned companion leave a Bushwick loft to navigate the subway. Familiar faces and converging philosophies meet to take what others deem unworthy of consumption. The reward of a free and delicious discovery activates a ritual adventure--a night of extraordinary harvest.
Every evening, long after rush hour, a series of dumpsters are rolled out onto the sidewalks in front of a large grocery store in Brooklyn, NY. A small crowd materializes to await a bounty of discarded food. As employees passively wheel out containers of expired, nearly expired, blemished, dented, smushed, or seemingly perfect edibles, the gleaners rummage through clear plastic bags and often salvage enough food to last a week or more. The foodstuffs can be found on the shelves of the supermarket just hours before. And if not for the dumpster divers, these "spoils" are destined for a landfill.
In the Direct Cinema tradition of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman, filmmaker Alex Mallis captures intimate portraits of the divers, illuminating a practice as old as agriculture. Mallis' fly-on-the-wall access to these Brooklynites bring us along for a journey through the culture of dumpster diving, offering an unvarnished glimpse into one night of urban harvest.
Runtime: 21 min. Color. | Contact: alex.mallis@gmail.com
Contact: alex.mallis@gmail.com
Alex Mallis - Director/Cinematographer/Editor
Lily Henderson - Sound Recordist
Matthew Lubicky - Sound Recordist
Geoff Feinberg - Sound Recordist
Begonia Colomar - Colorist
Rose Seyfried - Sound Mixer
Nathaniel Raymond - Graphic/Title Design
| Adam Jaffe | Ed David | Lourdes Ramirez-Crusellas |
| Adam T | Edward Dugan | Maria Cuellar |
| Adam Tetenbaum | Eileen Hadden | Marina Ferndandez |
| Alie Cirgenski | Emily Thomas | Mark Klamik |
| Allison Pottasch | Emma | Maya Solovey |
| Amanda Lou | Eric Bowman | Meaghan O'Connell |
| Amelia Collins | Eric Fitz | Merrill Aldighieri |
| Anders Carlson-Wee | Espen Steinsnes | Michael Breshears |
| Andrew Holm | Evan Agee | Michael Kunitzky |
| Andy Rossmeissl | Flonia Telegrafi | Michael McGregor |
| Anna Naomi Larson | Fransel Maas | Michaela Ledesma |
| Anna Venezia | Frederick L Swetland | Mike Dunn |
| Anne Callahan | Gabi Kozak | Nadia Mohamed |
| Annie Berman | Gretchen Rubin | Natalie Magnatta |
| Annie Larmon | Hazen Woolson | Nate Boguszewski |
| Arianys Wilson | Hillary Lauren Levine | Neil Cowley |
| Ashton Coghlan | Hope Klein | Nicholas Jones |
| Barry Mallis | Isabella Gambuto | Nicholas Weissman |
| Ben Eriksen | Jacob Bielecki | OurGoods.org |
| Bernardo Mendez | Jacy Good | Patrick Weaver |
| Bill Felty | Janis Zirlen | Penelope Angiulo |
| Bleakley McDowell | Jarrad Hill | Rachel Cohen |
| Brian Carroll | Jay Sterenberg | Reenie Page |
| Bridge Street Syncopated Press | Jennifer Rhorer | Ricardo Miranda |
| Caitlin Duffy | Jesse Mallis | Ricco Siasoco |
| Caitlin Littlefield | Jessica Johnson | Roberta Paul |
| Caitlin McCusker | Jon Collet | Robin Cohen |
| Carly Miller | Jonathan Wilson | Ron Mallis |
| Cassie Wagler | Julia McConahay | Sally Reed |
| Cindy Au | Julie Alef | Sarah Enid Hagey |
| Clifford Laney | Justin Kazmark | Sarah Kushner |
| Consiglio Dumpsworth | Justin Wornes | Sarina Roma |
| D Perez de la Garza | Katrina James | Sasha Wortzel |
| Damian Schafer | Kendel Ratley | Satoko Sugiyama |
| Daniel Phelps | Laura Hadden | Shelley Holm |
| Daniella Jaeger | Lauren Thorpe | Stavritsa Terzis |
| Deniz Ozuygur | Lewis Winter | Stephen J. Payne |
| Diana Barillas | Lindsay Napolitano | Talia Bryce |
| Donna Monifa Jackson | Liz Scharf | Tara Catherine Atkinson |
| E Bruce Weiss | Lola Bates-Campbell | Ted Raviv |
| Tyler Cushing | Trace Ramsey | Tennessee Watson |
| William Marelich Ph.D. | Zach Collinger | Becky + Bill |
