Residing in the slums of Cateura – a community built on a landfill – the Recycled Orchestra creatively finds beautiful ways to utilize the one thing they have an abundance of: trash.

Using only discarded items they find at the local dump, the youth musical group builds and maintains their drums, violins and cellos made from repurposed scraps, under the guidance of local garbage picker Cola and orchestra founder Favio Chávez.

Directors – Brad Allgood, Graham Townsley, Juliana Penaranda-Loftus (co-director)

An Official Selection of the 2015 SXSW Film Festival.
Winner of The 2015 24 Beats Per Second Audience Award, The 2015 SXSW Moving Mountains Prize, The Telluride Mountain Film Inspiring Lives Award, and The 2015 San Francisco Green Film Festival Award

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