Manufactured Landscapes is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as “stunning” or “beautiful,” and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them.
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
- Winner: Best Documentary – Ecocinema International Film Festival 2008
- 2007 Genie Award for BEST DOCUMENTARY
- Winner: REEL CURRENT AWARD at the Nashville Film Festival (NaFF)
- Winner: Genie for Best Feature Documentary 2007
- Toronto International Film Festival – One of the Top Ten Films of 2006
- Winner: TIFF Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film 2006
- Winner: Best Canadian Documentary, Atlantic Film Festival 2006
- Winner: Best Canadian Documentary, Calgary Film Festival 2006
- Winner: Best Feature documentary & Best Canadian Film, Toronto Film Critics Association 2006
- Official Selection Sundance Film Festival
- Nominated in the best documentary competition at 2008 film independent spirit awards.
