“Dogtown Redemption” Film Screening | Albany

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A surprising number of Americans make their living off America’s vast rivers of trash. They are America’s unseen. Dogtown redemption tells the story of one river, and the humanity of its inhabitants in Dogtown, West Oakland, a lively, bustling yet invisible corner of California.

They follow the lives of three recyclers: Jason Witt, the titan of recycling, Landon Goodwin, a former minister, who struggles with his own fall from grace, and Miss Hayok Kay, the ultimate outsider, formerly a punk rocker from a prominent Korean family, now at the mercy of the elements and predators. Through them, people are introduced to the art, science, economics and politics of recycling: what it offers, how it touches the poor and why it matters to everyone.

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