Oscar Nominated Director Questions Reporter's Facebook Friendship

There are only four reader comments at the bottom of a February 18th indieWIRE interview of Lucy Walker (pictured), director of the Oscar nominated feature documentary Waste Land. But the gist of those comments was enough to arouse the curiosity of Salon film critic Andrew O’Hehir, who picks up on the strand of whether or not Walker is taking too much credit for the movie about life in and around Rio de Janeiro’s gigantic landfill, at the expense of her Brazilian co-directors João Jardim and Karen Harley .

O’Hehir sourced a number of published interviews and spoke by telephone with Waste Land producer Angus Aynsley, who is very upfront about it all.

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