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Chicago's scrappers recover recyclable metals from alleyways, garages, and demolition sites and resell them at a network of bustling scrap yards. Scrappers spends a year in the life of two Chicago families who make ends meet with brains, brawn, and battered pickup trucks.
Scrappers provides extraordinary access to its characters' lives in order to provoke new perspectives on recycling, undocumented immigration, underground economies, the working poor, race relations and Chicago's physical landscape. Chicago electro-acoustic percussionist Frank Rosaly's fractured jazz score meshes seamlessly with the texture of the scrap heap and the vanishing horizon of the alleyway.
The filmmakers met while studying at the University of Chicago, and were key crew members on two other feature films now in distribution: THAX, which premiered at the 2007 Chicago Underground Film Festival, and Crime Fiction, which premiered at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival. Editor Aaron Wickenden is producer/associate at Kartemquin Films, and most recently co-editor and co-producer of At The Death House Door, multiple award-winner at Full Frame, South by Southwest, IDFA, and Atlanta Film Festivals. Other editing credits include Milking the Rhino, The Calling, and The War Tapes.
