Late August 2011
The new season of Trashopolis starts on Thursdays at 10PM, September 1st, 2011 on History Television in Canada.
This is the synopsis of the first episode:
Mexico City is sinking…
The sewers are overflowing, the landfills are closing, and mountains of Trash from iconic celebrations like the Day of the Dead – have no where to go. But the city is fighting back. Fearless Sewer Divers descend into pools of raw sewage to unclog drains. The most polluting cars on the road are being crushed. And now, the world’s second largest megalopolis is building the biggest and most technologically advanced sewage tunnel on the planet.
April & May 2011
While Joe bangs on his keyboard (he’s very into it when he writes), Manu makes a few trips to Calgary for the Licence to Drill series.
Post production on both Trashopolis II and Licence to Drill 2 is in full swing. It’s gruelling... Just praying we can make it to September, when the first Trash show airs.
March 2011
Joe is back from Tokyo and he’s been experimenting with the DSLR footage he captured on the trip.
Tokyo Time Lapse - December 2010 from joe wiecha on Vimeo.
Production Wrap party for Trashopolis 2 - the film crew shipped to Moscow today! The last episode takes place in Montreal so we thought we could start drinking now... Here’s a snap with Jean Beaudouin, Star Editor, and Greg Thompson, Senior Coordinator.
February 2011
Mumbai, financial center of India, fabled city of empires and fortunes. On a Trash heap called Dharavi, over one million earn pennies a day recycling the city’s garbage. Some say the Indians are naturally thrifty, predisposed to recycling, and make comparisons with the Hindu concept of reincarnation. But for the children of Dharavi, the Gold Sweepers of the Jewelry markets, and the barefooted rat killers of the Night Patrol, there is only one indisputable fact; for Mumbai’s poor, there is no life without Trash.
An episode of the 2nd season of Trashopolis written and directed by Joe (pictured here with friends).
more January 2011
Joe was in Tokyo for two weeks to direct an episode of Trashopolis, Season 2. This was lunch on one of the shoot days:
January 2011
It’s old news already but it happened so fast... Pixcom sold “Licence to Drill” to Discovery Science in the US. They re-recorded the entire narration with an American sounding fellow (essentially replacing “kilometers” for “miles”) and aired the six-part series under a new name: Cold Diggers.
