Redemption

Directors

Jon Alpert

Matthew O’Neill

Producer

Steven Knight

Cinematographers

Jon Alpert

Matthew O’Neill

Editors

Adam Barton

John Custodio

Rob Kuhns

Sound

Ron Bochar

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2013

United States

35 min

Color

Redemption is a documentary about New York City’s canners – the men and women who survive by redeeming bottles and cans they collect from curbs, garbage cans and apartment complexes. You’ve seen them combing through the trash, but never got to meet them. The film is an unexpected and intimate look at post-industrial gleaners, struggling at the edge of our society.

Directors' Biography

Matthew O’Neill is an Emmy Award winning and Academy Award nominated director whose been working with DCTV making documentaries for the last ten years. Matthew grew up on Long Island in New York, graduated from Yale University with a degree in Theater and is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Jon Alpert has distinguished himself as an award-winning journalist. He has won three Primetime Emmy Awards, eleven News & Documentary Emmy Awards, one National Emmy for Sports Programming, four Columbia DuPont Awards and a Peabody Award.

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