Waste
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2007
Logline
A windowed New York City sanitation worker gets caught in the middle of labor disputes, confronted with more than just the possibility of losing his job
Ben Rekhi
Director/ Screenwriter
Ben Rekhi graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he directed and produced a number of films, including The Waste Project, which won the Best Actor prize at the First Run Festival, and Dirty Laundry, recipient of Warner Bros. Pictures Postproduction grant. Rekhi has worked on the set of O Brother, Where Art Thou? and shot the behind-the-scenes documentary for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. He founded Drops Entertainment and produced his first feature film, Bomb the System, which was nominated for the 2004 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature and distributed by Palm Pictures. His directorial debut, Waterborne, was the runner-up for the narrative audience prize at the 2005 SXSW Film Festival, and CarBabes, his latest project as producer, premiered at the Hollywood Film Festival.
John Campo
Screenwriter
A professional actor and writer for the past 20 years, John Campo has worked as a taxi driver, chef, factory worker, construction worker, and a sanitation worker in New York City. Campo formally trained at the Stella Adler School of Acting and the Herbert Bergoff Studio, performing at several off-Broadway production venues such as the Producer’s Club, le Bar Bat, and the Village Gate. He received the Best Actor Award at the 2001 First Run Festival for his performance in Ben Rekhi’s short film, The Waste Project, which marked the beginning of Rekhi and Campo’s six-year collaboration. Most recently, he appeared in CarBabes, starring John Gries, Ben Savage, and Blake Clark. Campo is currently based in Los Angeles and represented by the Actor’s House.