Cardboard Days

This multi award winning documentary is based on the life and work of the cardboard collectors of Buenos Aires City  , the so called ‘cartoneros’.  The film focus on this army of the shadows that every night walks and works in the streets of the richest districts of the city. Traveling with them on a train with no lights, seats, windows or doors, like foraging animals, we enter an underworld of despair, exploitation, racism and speculation difficult to ignore. Giving voices to these real outcasts, the film explores the different forms of organizations they give to themselves, the faces and names of those who legally and illegally profits on other people's misery via the multimillion dollars business of rubbish collection and the reality of life in a country and a city in which globalization went completely wrong. Cardboard Days is also a reflection on megalopolis, recycling,urban alternative life styles and economic inequity. Rising multiple issues of significant ecological, social,antrophological and etnographical importance, the film invites the spectator to an unforgettable trip into Latin America deep hopes and desires, fights and politics, shadows and lights.

Veronica Souto

Born in Buenos Aires in 1968, studied Fine Arts at the "Prilidiano Pueyrredon" National School of Fine Arts, then finished his degree in Film Studies and Cinematographic Realization at the FUC. Since 1990 up to 2006 had worked in the film industry as Production Manager, Assistant Director, Casting Director and Director in several documentaries and features films, working along with Directors like Carlos Sorin, Walter Salles, Juan Jose Campanella and Luis Puenzo . She lives and works in Buenos Aires .

FILMOGRAPHY

FEATURE FILMS

"Hermanas", by Julia Solomonoff, Argentina-Spain 2005, Casting Director

"Cama adentro", by Jorge Gaggero, Argentina-Spain 2004, Casting Director

“La puta y la ballena” by Luis Puenzo, Argentina-Spain 2004, Postproduction Coordinator in Spain

"Diaries of the Motorcycle", by Walter Salles, Brasil-USA-Argentina, 2003,

Casting Co- Director for Argentina

"Historias Minimas", by Carlos Sorin,

Argentina-Spain 2002,

1st Assistant Director and Casting Director

"El mismo amor,la misma lluvia", by Juan Jose Campanella,

Argentina-Spain ,1999, Casting Co- Director

"Condor Crux", by Juan Pablo Buscarini, Argentina 1999, Production and Post Production Coordinator

“Dibu 2” , by Carlos Galettini , Argentina , 1998, Post Production Coordinator

DOCUMENTARIES

“ Cardboard Days “, documentary, Argentina 2003, Director and Camara Co- Director

"Evita,una vida", by Miguel Perez, documentary, Argentina 2002,

Production Coordinator

"Porto Alegre 2002, another world is possible", documentary, Brasil-Spain 2002, Camara Co-Director